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April 20 Defined.I am finding out who I am. Would you like a Definition? Glad you asked. I am.... Morally corrupt. Utterly Broken. Completely Dependent. Graciously Redeemed. My success is not defined by: my place of employment. possessions. marital status. popularity. I am determined to live as a fool in this life to gain unmeasurable wisdom and reward in the next. Satisfied with what I have, rather than dissatisfied with what I don't have. I am grateful. Bold humility. Setting aside my interests for His. Pursuing His interests. Not mine. The Cycle of Adventure, fulfillment and thrill in trusting His strength in my weakness. His ability in my inability. He delights in me. I am loved. Remembered. Desired. Spoken for. Chosen. Satisfied. Provided for. Infused with Life. Priceless. Precious. and above all...I am KNOWN. (inside-Out. upside-Down. backwards-Forwards. beginning-End. forever-Ever) Lies no longer have priority in my thinking process. I am not less-than. He is good enough. He is more than Enough. No more shame. No more guilt. No more condemnation. No more inferiority. No more rejection. I am adopted. I am chosen. I am valued. I am stubbornly loved....and there is nothing I can do about it except....ACCEPT IT. I was complaining to our Father today about feeling a lack of acceptance and He reminded me that is how He feels too. He..the Creator of the Universe, The Maker of all Mankind. The Everlasting Father. The Great I AM. The Holy One. The Incarnate Deity.... just wants to love.... me. To cherish me. To hold me in His arms and whisper sweet nothings into my ear. To show the world how PROUD He is of His beautiful bride....yet I spurn Him and chase after other pursuits that seems more worthy of my time and attention. Perhaps if I am rejected by others, rejecting the One who really is pursuing me is my way of escape. I don't have to be vulnerable, because Love won't tear down this calloused brick wall I have build around my heart. No, Love is a gentlemen. He is like the best friend who listens to me, is there for me, serves me, sacrifices for me, gives His life away for me...yet I am fixated with the temporary mirage of the cultural perfection of a lover who promises me the WORLD, success, popularity, position, attraction, security, ....it is so fleeting that it does nothing but leave me unfulfilled, dissatisfied and longing. longing. longing. Maybe if I catch him...maybe next time I will be happy...maybe next time it won't fade so quickly..maybe next time I will really find true happiness and my craving, my deep inner longing will be quenched by this mirage of an abundant waterfall of cultural and worldly promises. The catch is...this world is NOT my home. I will never fufill this deep inner thirst until I am raised again to new life and I'm with Him in the heavens. But I have been given... A raincheck. A guarantee. An "I owe you". A promise. A hope. Ephesians 1:14 "The SPIRIT is His guarantee that he will give us everything He promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people." These passages have been instrumental, pivotal, riveting and satisfying in the shaping of my paradigm of how I view my visit on this planet. Will I live a life pleasing to Him? What exactly is His "Will"? What is REAL life...TRUE life? I cannot do diddly squat on my own, but in His mighty redeeming power He takes my weak and corrupt heart and transforms it into potential and beauty that I never thought possible. There is HOPE. Hope is ALIVE. Hope is a PERSON. Ephesians 2:12, 19 In those days you were living apart from Him. You were excluded from His people, and you did not know the promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without Him and without hope. But now you belong to Him. Though you were once far away, now you have been brought near to him because of the blood of JC. ....you are no longer strangers and foreigners. you are citizens along with all of His holy people. You are MEMBERS of His family. Ephesians 2: 8-10 And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from our Father. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are His MASTERPIECE. He has created us anew in JC, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. Ephesians 1:4 Long ago, even before he made the world, He loved us and chose us in Him to be holy and without fault in his eyes. His unchanging plan has ALWAYS been to adopt us into His own family by bring us to himself through JC. And this gave him GREAT PLEASURE. Ephesians 5:15 So be careful how you live, not as fools but as those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity for doing good in these evil days. Don't act thoughtlessly, but try to understand what He wants you to do. Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead let the HS fill and control you. Then you will sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, making music to Him in your hearts. And you will always give thanks for everything to Our Father in the name of JC. Phil 2:3-4, 13 Don't be selfish; don't live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. don't think only about your own affairs but be interested in others too, and what they are doing. ....For He is working in you giving you the desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him...You are to live clean, innocent lives as children of Our Father in a dark world full of crooked and perverse people. Let your lives shine brightly before them. Phil 3:8 YES, everything else is WORTHLESS when compared with the priceless GAIN of knowing JC...I no longer count on my own goodness or my ability to obey His law, but I trust JC to save me. Phil 4: 6 Don't worry about ANYTHING, instead pray about everything. Tell Him what you need and thank him for all he has done. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. his peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in JC. Phil 4:19 And this same God who takes care of me will supply ALL of your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in JC. Col 1:13 For He has RESCUED us from the one who rules in the kingdom of darkness and he has brought us into the Kingdom of his dear Son. He has purchased our FREEDOM with His blood and has forgiven ALL of our sins. Col 4:12b ...asking Him to make you strong and perfect, fully confident of the whole will of God. Col 3: 16 Let the words of JC, in all their richness, LIVE in your hearts and make you wise. 1 Thess 5:16-22 Always be joyful. Keep on praying. No matter what happens, always be thankful, for THIS is his will for you who belong to JC. Do not stifle the HS. Do not scoff at prophecies, but TEST everything that is said. Hold on to what is good. Keep away from every kind of evil. 1 Tim 6:6,10 People who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil...pierced themselves with many sorrows. 1 Tim 6:18 Tell those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which will soon be gone. But their trust should be in the living One who richly give us all we need for our enjoyment. Tell them to use their money to do good. They should be rich in good works and should give generously to those in need, always being ready to share with otheres whatever He has given them. By doing this they will be storing up their treasure as a good foundation for the future (REAL SECURITY) so that they may take hold of REAL life. He is so beautiful...and I'm so in love. Love,  Krissy TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://chinasongkristina.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D48423AEA7B62019!172.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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