@AuntGlow @Realness @tyme @Appleblossom @ENKELI @heartathome
All in a nights work.😀
Belonging Change
Grace is more than becoming good enough,
our flesh brought under His holy rule;
it is the lost brought home to Love,
the wanderer no longer played the fool.
It is not only sin washed from our soul,
nor only our dark deeds put to flight;
it is our soul brought into His whole,
our orphaned state made child of light.
Not “do better” or “work harder” the way,
not “prove yourself and earn a place.”
But see God’s faithful covenant reveal
hearts brought home by His words of grace.
“Not My people” — made wholly Mine own.
“Not beloved” — Beloved you are to Me.
The cast-out no more forsaken, nor alone;
the far-off in His kindness now may be.
So grace does more than wash us clean
from where once the feet of ruin trod;
God’s love by orphaned spirits seen,
sealing our new name in Christ with God.
For what God changes is not to appease
the sinful works of a past rebel will,
but truth now shaping our inner peace,
His Word placing our hearts on Zion’s Hill.
Overcome by darkness is not our fate,
nor merely held from lies by night;
we are removed from under its weight
and planted anew in the Son’s pure light.
Do not let striving flesh be blessed;
rather weary labour’s works now cease.
Our Lord’s grace is not behaviour dressed,
but living the fullness of His love in peace.
@Realness "We should hold Paul in very high regard."
i couldn't agree more! Years ago before the wall of hostility inside my heart spiritually became clear to me after reading 1 Corinthians 2::5-16 i had misunderstood everything. i had for many years ruthlessly persecuted myself in wrong, cruelly dividing myself against myself 'righteous - unrighteous' as taught by religion, not God's word in Spirit the Spirit of graceful love and truth, rather than bringing myself stuck with wrong to Jesus.
@AuntGlow @tyme @Appleblossom @Bunniekins @ENKELI
Paul open my eyes first to reading The Word in Spirit and not past the doctrines i had held so dear, for i had been brought up with them the religion i was born into.
Once i met Jesus The Living Word inside not only as the one who took that dividing wall away inside my heart, but who saved me from the many wrongs hurting me in real life. For His Word in Spirit brought me faith in God's love, even while suicidally depressed about to end my life all these years ago. i will never ever forget the day He met me down there in my pit. Even thought it took me more than 3 years to climb out. It was Jesus who rebuild my mind and ability to suffer depressive bouts with dignity instead of cast down as been.
Forsaking the Pit
As I climb over the rim, I clearly see;
involuntarily I shudder at the sight in me:
down without a bottom lies the pit below,
yes, this fiery hole within me on full show!
Hear voices of darkness pressing hard on me,
speaking guilt, shame, distrust, violence to see;
all together pushing, yes, pressing me down deep,
resisting my climb to the top so steep.
See those guilty feelings still tug at my feet;
I can feel flames searing where my toes they meet,
electrifying my soul, no mercy on show.
Why ever did I take this hell-hole in tow?
Above me the Light, Jesus, the Truth so high!
How long before I meet with Him in the sky?
He knows I will come after Him without a doubt,
for true nourishing goodness is what He is all about.
My bloodied fingers scraped upon the rock ”
for how many years did those hard places mock?
Those stony places in my very being,
those fiery stones of my own seeing!
I climbed after the Light right above me,
the only truth that truly leaves me be.
Never will I stop seeking after the Light,
for Jesus Christ is my very soul's delight!
Soon the resting place of my enemy,
the bottomless pit, shall forever be”
for those without any love or grace,
for those whose lies made this place.
