More thoughts on the Gospel

There have been many a dark night in my soul (as it were) over the course of my journey with Christ. Times where I have been tempted to give up and give in. Times where I thought my faith would fail. There was even a week where I was 100% convinced that I was a vessel of wrath prepared for destruction. Looking back, I see that these periods of soul tempest were a direct result of looking to myself for righteousness. In looking inward for goodness, I despaired, and rightly so! "For I know that in my flesh nothing good dwells" 

Oh the sin that plagues me so! The moment I think I have gained mastery over it, it rears its ugly head and overtakes me. I am 'prone to wander Lord, I feel it', " But where sin abounds, grace abounds much more"

Nevertheless, Christ is the compassionate savior. "When Satan tempts me to despair and tells me of the guilt within, upward I look and see him there, who made an end of all my sin"

"Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need" ~ Hebrews 4:14-16


I, who am the most unworthy, completely deserving of death "for the wages of sin IS death", once an enemy of Christ, has now been brought near by the blood of Jesus Christ. I am at peace with God because I have been justified by faith. False and full of sin I am! But, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. So now I will rejoice in God!



"I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life that I live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God..." 


Never, have I seen such love as the love that was poured out at calvary. How frequently am I moved to tears when I meditate on the never-ending love of God. Jesus "loves me for me, not for what I have done or what I will become"


For I have not come to the mountain that burned with fire, but I have come to Mount Zion, the City of the living God!


"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire."

  "Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." ~Ephesians 6:11-13 




As the Indian hymn says, "I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back..."

Soli Deo Gloria