Wonderful Merciful Savior

 

And yet again another shooting in our nation. I cannot bear to read the news and hear more angry arguments on rights, laws or political solutions. My heart is aching for our people. Only God who holds both the hearts of kings and the lowly in His Almighty hands can help. I have always loved this song by Selah. Of all the music they have given us this is by far their best and most enduring. May this song beĀ  a comfort to you. May our hearts cry to our wonderful, merciful Savior. Without Him we have hopelessly lost our way.

Grace to Help

In the old testament a man named Jacob had a dream in which he saw a staircase leading from earth to heaven with God standing at the top of the stairs. Jacob was in the desert and on the run because his brother was plotting to kill him. Though he could have returned home and asked his father for protection he did not because his own deception and lies had estranged him from his dad. But there in the darkness of the wilderness he discovered that God still had a plan for him.

If we have been born again God also has a plan for us. There will always be a staircase of grace which our loving heavenly Father has made for us. We do not need to climb the stairs to His door like strangers showing up for handouts. God who did not even spare the life of His own Son in order to make us His own wants to bless us today. He looks forward in eager anticipation to our arrival. There grace and provision for our needs is waiting. Why should we hold back? What need is so urgently pressing that we hurry out our door without Him? All we will ever need is there in His presence at the very top of the stairs!

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 4:16 NKJV

What is my Reflection?

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. I Corinthians 13:12 NKJV

I am amazed every morning as I walk by the pond in our neighborhood. Some days its reflections take on the look of a watercolour on canvas. The beauty secret of our humble pond is not its size or even depth, but its stillness.

Do you sometimes wonder what people see when they look at our lives? Not many of us are rich, famous or amazingly smart. Neither our best efforts or our loudest boasting can change who God created us to be.

But there is a great victory in acceptance of who we truly are. Acceptance of God’s gift of grace gives us a quietness to our soul. As the peace of that stillness spreads across the surface of our life we will effortlessly reflect the vivid colors of the beauty of our Lord…