Welcome to my blog spot! For those who don't know me well, I'm a nurse by education, day dreamer by trade, and ultimately a woman who desires to know and follow the will of God, through the knowledge of our living Savior, Jesus Christ and His word (the Bible)! Despite my inadequacies, pride, failures, and lack of focus on Him, Christ faithfully continues to guides me with his patient, gentle hand! I am so grateful for my gracious and merciful Lord I've come to know deeper through the years, and desire to share of my experiences with Him!
I'll endeavor to post once monthly for starters... we'll see where things go from there!
“Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all."
Yes, I am one of those lambs Isaiah spoke of. Le mouton erant (the wandering lamb in french), saved by the unfathomable grace of God, who through the sacrifice of his son, Jesus Christ, paid the penalty for our sins... "the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." The penalty for any and all sin is death (Romans 6:23). Christ willingly came to this earth, walked among us, showed us how to live, then laid His own life down for a world that only rejected Him... Another one of Isaiah's prophecies fulfilled... "He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he wcas despised; and we esteemed him not" (Isaiah 53:3, ASV)
How would you feel if you offered someone a precious gift that cost you your ENTIRE life, for it only to be rejected by them! Let's not take Christ's sacrifice lightly!!! The reality is that we do... we tend to take Christ's sacrifice lightly... Why? Because we all have this in-born tendency to turn away from God...
We are all wondering lambs, running away from God, seeking to fulfill our sinful, self-centered desires... a path that leads to death and destruction. We see the results of sin so apparently in this day... marriages & families broken by divorce; lives ended prematurely by alcohol, suicide, and homicide; business and gov't leadership driven by greed; assaults on the dignity of women d through our sex-driven culture... Our world is such a mess... messed-up by sin!
Yet God has looked past our tendency to turn from Him, and has provided a way of escape from the consequences of sin. No more messy, bloody animal sacrifices... Christ became the spotless lamb for us! He paid the penalty for our sins through His death on the cross 2000 "Easter's" ago... Not only does he offer Eternal Life with Him, to those who accept his forgiveness and gift of salvation, but FREEDOM from being bound to sin and it's terrible consequences in this life! We only have to turn to Him!
I love the words of the Hymn At Calvary by William Newell:
- Years I spent in vanity and pride,
Caring not my Lord was crucified,
Knowing not it was for me He died
On Calvary.- Refrain:
Mercy there was great, and grace was free;
Pardon there was multiplied to me;
There my burdened soul found liberty
At Calvary.
- Refrain:
- By God’s Word at last my sin I learned;
Then I trembled at the law I’d spurned,
Till my guilty soul imploring turned
To Calvary. - Now I’ve giv’n to Jesus everything,
Now I gladly own Him as my King,
Now my raptured soul can only sing
Of Calvary! - Oh, the love that drew salvation’s plan!
Oh, the grace that brought it down to man!
Oh, the mighty gulf that God did span
At Calvary!
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16
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