The great wonders of the world may have taken time, nothing happened instantly.
In Faith - we have to know and believe that God has all the answers, and we need to seek Him with all our heart.
It is Hope - when you hear the birds chirp, it is their little song they sing. We don't know the words. But Hope feels a lot like that. It is the Music, where everything in the Universe reaches out to you and fills you with no words spoken. If you listen, you will know and understand.
In Love - To love God with all my heart and to love everybody the way God expects me to.
This is one of my favourite poems. “Hope” By Emily Dickinson.
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
Psalm 42:1-2, 11
As a hart longs
for flowing streams,
so longs my soul
for thee, O God.
My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and behold
the face of God?
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.
REMEMBER: HOPE IN GOD!
Hope is an expectation in God, of great things to come.
Hope is Faith in the future tense.
We are not merely saved by grace through faith.
We are saved by grace through hope.
Abraham was fully convinced that God was able to do what He had promised. Abraham had the full assurance of hope. In hope Abraham believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations. Romans 4:18-22
Faith is the full assurance of hope.
Against hope means that from the human point of thinking there was no hope: Abraham was too old to have a child, and his wife was barren.
What is impossible to man is POSSIBLE with God. For it is the Promise of God.
Abraham’s faith was his reliability of God’s word, and his hope was his strong confidence in the fulfillment of God’s promise.
What is LOVE?
I am certain there could be a million statements answering just this question that we seem to ask through our whole life?
We go through all the ups and downs and we most often end up hurting ourselves or others. In all this we understand love just the way we want to. And then there are times, being broken we take in the advice of people who are-our mirror images. That is people who have made the same mistakes and who are way bitter than us. We take in their advice and given time we become the mirrors to each other.
So, who am I talking about? Everybody in general, whatever their status quo.
We all look for love. It is the hearts yearning. Trouble is we don’t know what true love looks like. We watch movies, we take examples from it and what it looks like, and we think we know what love is.
When a husband and wife love each other, then their children will look no further. They will be brought up with the whole understanding of the love of God and what love is. And they will take that love into the world.
Isn’t that what Jesus does? HE came into the world as one of us bringing the Fathers Love with Him? Did we recognize Him? Did we understand what love is?
NO!
We crucified Him and are we better today than 2000 years back. I don’t think so.
God is absolutely, Wonderful! To be in love with God, is like nothing else in the world. The feeling is awesome. To love God simply means you love everybody.
God says we are fearfully and wonderfully made. We are made in His likeness and image. We are His representatives here on earth and if we look at it from this point of view, THEN -
Everything is a Miracle!
And we are God's Miracles.
And MIRACLES are everywhere!
When we call ourselves CHRISTIANS - then it is understood that we have To follow - To live our lives, based on the words and the life of Jesus:
- Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
- John 14:6 I am the way, and the truth, and the life;
- John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
- Luke 10:27 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbour as yourself.”
Mark 9:7 “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.”
(Abba Father directing us to listen to Jesus.)
John 2:5 “Do whatever he tells you.”
(The Wedding at Cana-Mary directs the servants to do what Jesus asks of them.)
Abba Father: Listen to Him. (Listen to Jesus)
Mama Mary : Do whatever He tells you. (Do what Jesus tells)
In the Above Words, we have to OBEY Jesus completely!
JESUS Directs: - To follow Jesus, in His BEATTITUDES!
- Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
- Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
- Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
- Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
- Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
- Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven.
Love is Obedience.
Obedience to God!
Obedience to God's Priests.
Obedience from wife to husband.
Obedience to Parents.
Obedience to all elders.
Obedience to the boss.
Obedience to the Law.
Remember: Jesus was obedient, it was His love for His Father, that He accepted willingly a death on the Cross.
In His love for us-is a complete surrender. He made Himself a sacrifice pleasing to God!
A miracle is an act of God doing something awesome in order to reveal Himself to mankind.
- The Son of God became Flesh.
- He lived as one of us.
- Jesus was killed on the Cross. Christ died for us because God loves us.
God loves us and sent His Son to be a sacrifice that appeases HIS just judgment and righteous anger against us and for our sins. Jesus is what satisfies the justice of God.
- Jesus died and was buried.
- Jesus rose from the dead.
Date 061223 (Time 23:23)- One of the numbers I saw today.
Please also continue to read: Everything is a MIRACLE! Part 3
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