~Charlie's Thoughts~
As I was doing my devotions today, one passage stuck out to me as wonderfully encouraging:
Isa 14:3-7:
And it will be in the day when the LORD gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and harsh service in which you have been enslaved, 4that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased, And how fury has ceased! 5"The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of rulers 6Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes, Which subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution. 7"The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; They break forth into shouts of joy.
Now Isaiah was speaking to the Israelites, referring to their oppressors, the Babylonians. But the verse is equally applicable to our former oppressor, sin. When you think about the Cross, remember that Jesus not only forgave our sin, but He crushed it. It which once ruled our every thought and deed no longer can make us do anything. Our souls formerly groaned under the weight of our sin, but now we are free- in fact, we can rejoice over our dead enemy's body. Yet, we have not won, God has. He rules, and now He reigns in our hearts. "Death is dead, love has won, Christ has conquered." I pray this encourages your hearts.
In Christ,
Charlie
2 comments:
Thanks for sharing that Charlie. It is encouraging that sin is dead and it no longer has a hold on us! Today I was reading in 1 Peter 2. It says in verse 24: "He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness." He has conquered sin and death! We should live for Him.
It's so true that HE has done it all!!
It just goes to show how we are so dependent upon God for everything.
We would be never be who we are today without Christ.
I'm very grateful that He has chosen, because of His pleasure and not anything I have done, to saved ME.
I certainly rejoice at that fact!
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