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Faithful is He

Sometimes a simple phrase from scripture can burn itself into our consciousness until we cannot escape the thought: At the moment mine is "The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it" (1 Thessalonians 1:24. Looking at the wider context, the Bible is talking about our call to his grace which can forgive, can purify and keep us. This is our initial call and most important call. Looking at the context gives us this perspective. 1 Thessalonians 5:23–24 (NIV) — 23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it. What a glorious concept. We can be pure – we can be blameless, and we have nothing to fear if we simply respond to His wonderful leadership to let Him establish a relationship with us and to walk with us. I also realize, however, that even when one is purified by His power, God continue...
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The Wonderful Life!

I commented recently that our present is wonderful as are our memories. So often we treat that word “wonderful” to mean amazing, easy or even always pleasant. This is NOT what I mean. There is a far deeper sense to this word in my opinion, though. I am thinking of Full of Wonder. The Oxford definition of wonder is a feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beautiful, remarkable or unfamilier. Even when life has challenges far bigger than our ability to endure, when life brings some difficult days or even days in which we suffer, I still stand in wonder at our amazing God who never leaves us nor forsakes us, who brings us out to victory on the other side of the hard place, who gives joy that is deeper than our circumstances or our experiences or the current pathway we tread. So life is wonderful: I stand in awe and wonder at our God of beauty, of compassion and of grace. Yes, we do have days in which we don’t face those difficulties and we see things come together so wel...
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