HEAVEN CAN HOLD US ALL

Romans 3:25-26---God  sacrificed Jesus on the altar of the world to clear the world of sin.  Having faith in him sets us in the clear. God decided on this course of action in full view of the public, to set the world in the clear with himself through the sacrifice of Jesus, finally taking care of the sins he had so patiently endured."  This clarifies to me exactly what Jesus did for us and why He wants us as His own.  What father wouldn't want his children to be  clean  in body and in spirit?  And even when they fall in the mud and wallow in it, the father would still  hug them and clean them up.

That's our God.

He cleared our way to be holy, by accepting Jesus gift of cleanness in the sight of God.

Yet, God made us to have a choice of holiness or not.  Just as the child who stays in the mud, God wants us to get out of it RIGHT NOW! No pussy-footing around.  He loves us, but He wants us to listen to Him and obey.  And He wants it now! So, be thankful that your brother, Jesus, took the punishment for all of us.

Yet, I didn't say it would be easy.  But it's that God has something better for us and that makes it worth the effort of belonging to God.  He asks us to be obedient. For myself, I don't always see that what I'm doing would be better not done. In purer words, I don't always see that what I'm doing is a sin.  But, God keeps after me and finally I see that what I'm doing is hurting someone else and myself.  Then, I try to out it from my life, sometimes more successful than other times.

But, the main point I want to make is, "I am His!" And if sometimes He makes it a little tough, it's worth every moment of the peace and joy and acceptance I receive every day.  I am His!

Yes, he is worth the exclamation points.  We are His!!!!!!

Lord Jesus, grant that each one of us who knows you might turn the heart of at least one other, that he ,too, might come into your loving care.  I am only one, but I can pray that many might have "touched a heart" of one who still "wanders into the mud" without a loving Father. Amen.

Heaven can hold us all!  Jo