Thursday, December 13, 2007

Notice:

Like Paul, I am not ashamed of the Gospel. Where Jesus will lead, he will only know. In response to his call, I will go, I will say "yes" to him, his call on my life — whatever it shall be. If he calls me, I will leave my fishing nets, my computer and my degree and I will follow after him. I died to this world so that I may find life in Christ, to be completed upon my final breath.

This time is now stoppage time and I will fight still harder to serve my master and help our team to win the game. I know not when the ref will blow his whistle but I will not stop serving my master until I hear that sound, "child come home."

I am not ashamed of the Gospel, the Gospel that gives me life. Without I am damned to death now and death in an existence without God where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. I am a sinner and this is what I deserve for failing to uphold either the Law of which I know about or even the law as it was written on my conscious. Jesus invited me to die to sin and this world and I have. In Jesus, the source of true life, I find refuge and I find a reason to live, to love, to fight for the oppressed and the lonely. In Jesus I find the reason to life its self and no one shall take this away from me. My destiny is hid with Christ Jesus and I am forever thankful.



Romans 8:

28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

31What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written:

"For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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