Hello friends!
I could not be more thankful or excited to get to serve with
all of you again this summer and see how the Lord moves in incredible ways
again! I’m a little behind with the blogs but I will hopefully be fully caught
up now! J
I’ve been SO encouraged reading all of yours and cannot wait to see what the
Lord has in store for all of us this summer!
Week 1:
I was definitely very convicted by this study of whether I
KNOW who Jesus is or if I just know a lot about who Jesus is – I feel like if I
could somewhat grasp who Jesus is right now in my life even though our words
are SO incapable of describing all that He is now… my life would look
dramatically different than it does today. I loved learning what the Greek
meaning of “takes away” – Jesus didn’t just end all sin in the world, but
rather, He took up all of the sin of the world, the wrath of God was poured out
onto Him, He carried it as His own sin even though He lived a perfect, innocent
life, and carried it off, removed it from us, WASHED US CLEAN by the blood of
the lamb. His grace active in my life NOW is something I so easily forget about
– that Jesus nailed my shame, guilt, pain, regret all on the cross and He died
on the cross so that I wouldn’t have to feel this way anymore but could live in
the freedom and truth and light of His love and goodness. We have hope; we no
longer have to live stuck in these chains of our sin – He has broken our chains
and we now have to choose to step out of these chains and into a life of
freedom and hope with our Savior. Thank you Jesus for that incredible,
undeserving gift.
Week 2:
I was baptized a little over a year ago and I will never
forget the feeling of being submersed under the water with the pastor saying
“you are dead to your sin” and then rising up out of the water and him
proclaiming, “you are now alive in CHRIST.” It was the most joyous moment of
coming up out of that water, knowing that I had just made this statement to all
my friends and family that I was living my life for Jesus and that He is the
reasoning that I am standing here alive today. After reading this study, I
think I’m realizing how I treated baptism like a one time thing. But, what I’m
realizing now is that choosing to be alive in Christ is a daily commitment,
something that we get to decide each day – choosing to let go of our sin and
being embraced by our full and complete life with our King. It says in John
10:10 that Jesus has “come that they may have LIFE and have it to the FULL” –
THIS is what He desires for His people and we are completely missing out on a
life being dunked in and drenched with the life of God and His truth if we live
in our sin and forget all the life that God longs for us to have. So today, I’m
choosing a LIFE with Christ, being fully submersed and dunked into His love and
freedom today. J
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