It's 12:20 in the morning, my mind is still processing things from today, and the debate on the resurrection that I'm listening to isn't totally tuning out the other thoughts floating through my brain (yes, listening to a debate is relaxing to me. I'm weird...). It's been a rough couple of days, a couple days I've hardly eaten, hardly slept, stressed myself into (comparatively) mild insanity and I'm getting sick.
So what do you do during a week like this? We all know the weeks, the weeks when you look at the mistakes you've made and you can't change anything now, but you can feel the cold, hard pain staring you in the face? The weeks where you don't see the truth of who God is... or who you are in Him? The weeks where you wonder what precisely God's planning?
I don't have many words tonight. I'm tired, but my mind doesn't want to sleep. When all you see is darkness and when our feelings tell us one thing, the thing we have to do, against all odds and against our flesh, we must cleave to the truth! And what is the truth?
God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. What does that mean in simple English? In a simple sentence, God is faithful. Yesterday, as in the past... today, as in the future... forever, all eternity... God never changes. Jesus Christ remains the same, my Father, my Lover, my Lord. And His character remains the same.
Jesus loves me... yesterday, today, and forever.
Jesus justified me, made me right with Him... yesterday, today, and forever.
God has forgiven me... yesterday, today, and forever.
I am covered in the grace of God...yesterday, today, and forever.
I have been made new in Christ, again, yes, again... yesterday, today, and forever.
I am an accepted child of God... yesterday, today, and forever.
I am no longer a slave... yesterday, today, and forever.
I am wholly free in Jesus Christ... yesterday, today, and forever.
The love of my Savior destroys my fear... yesterday, today, and forever.
There is no dirt or impurity left to me... yesterday, today, and forever.
There is no iota of disgust on the face of Jesus when He looks at me... yesterday, today, and forever.
There is no reservation in the love of my Father... yesterday, today, and forever.
I am His... yesterday, today, and forever. Not grudgingly His, but delightedly His. He is my Father, my Abba, the One who knows my heart and sees me as His child and His love. I am His... yesterday, today, and forever.
So what do you do during a week like this? We all know the weeks, the weeks when you look at the mistakes you've made and you can't change anything now, but you can feel the cold, hard pain staring you in the face? The weeks where you don't see the truth of who God is... or who you are in Him? The weeks where you wonder what precisely God's planning?
I don't have many words tonight. I'm tired, but my mind doesn't want to sleep. When all you see is darkness and when our feelings tell us one thing, the thing we have to do, against all odds and against our flesh, we must cleave to the truth! And what is the truth?
God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. What does that mean in simple English? In a simple sentence, God is faithful. Yesterday, as in the past... today, as in the future... forever, all eternity... God never changes. Jesus Christ remains the same, my Father, my Lover, my Lord. And His character remains the same.
Jesus loves me... yesterday, today, and forever.
Jesus justified me, made me right with Him... yesterday, today, and forever.
God has forgiven me... yesterday, today, and forever.
I am covered in the grace of God...yesterday, today, and forever.
I have been made new in Christ, again, yes, again... yesterday, today, and forever.
I am an accepted child of God... yesterday, today, and forever.
I am no longer a slave... yesterday, today, and forever.
I am wholly free in Jesus Christ... yesterday, today, and forever.
The love of my Savior destroys my fear... yesterday, today, and forever.
There is no dirt or impurity left to me... yesterday, today, and forever.
There is no iota of disgust on the face of Jesus when He looks at me... yesterday, today, and forever.
There is no reservation in the love of my Father... yesterday, today, and forever.
I am His... yesterday, today, and forever. Not grudgingly His, but delightedly His. He is my Father, my Abba, the One who knows my heart and sees me as His child and His love. I am His... yesterday, today, and forever.
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