JOURNAL/FROM EARTHLY VESSELS TO HEAVENLY BODIES

JOURNAL/FROM EARTHLY VESSELS TO HEAVENLY BODIES




“MAKE for yourselves a NEW HEART and a new SPIRIT” Ezekiel 18:31


OUR GOD AND FATHER offers the deep and wise advice to look WITHIN OUR HEARTS-to NOT be afraid to ACKNOWLEDGE what we find there


THIS is what happened to me-by LOOKING deep within my own heart and soul-and ACKNOWLEDGING my deepest darkest sin-yet CHOOSING GOD anyway-I became TRANSFORMED-transformed from the inside out


WHO could choose anything but GOD AND LOVE because he CHOOSES us first-and by choosing GOD over our sin we become heavenly bodies-an HONESTY BORN OF GOD'S LOVE for us


it is a GREAT DAY to be ALIVE IN GOD'S NEVER ENDING LOVE FOR US




















WITNESS




9-7-13




FROM EARTHLY VESSELS TO HEAVENLY BODIES




We are earthly vessels
But we are designed
To CARRY something


And what we are DESIGNED to carry
IS THE WORD OF GOD


A vessel is designed as a container
(ie. a bottle-a bowl-a cup-etc.)
For holding something


And in that something-that person-that body
IS INFUSED with a quality like faith, hope,
Love, grace, etc.


“And in him you too
ARE being built to become
A dwelling place
IN WHICH GOD LIVES BY HIS SPIRIT” Ephesians 2:22


I don’t know about you
But my body
SOMETIMES feels
More like a shack
Than a vessel
And I wonder why
GOD-GOD’S SPRIT
Would want to hang out with me
Let alone-LIVE INSIDE OF ME


Nevertheless he does


“LET all the earth
Fear the Lord
Let all the people
Of the world
REVERE HIM” Psalm 33:8


Let the SPIRIT OF GOD
LIVE
NOT in this broken down body
But in GOD’S HEAVENLY VESSEL


For the spirit of God-IS LIFE


Fortunately for us
Our God IS USED to humble places
So these broken down bodies of ours
HE CAN TRANSFORM


HE is used to stables
HE is used to crosses
SO these broken down bodies of ours
ARE NOTHING NEW


And we are children
OF GOD
And he WILL NEVER EVER
FORGET US


“For in him
We live and move
And have our heavenly being
AS some of our own poets have said
‘WE ARE HIS OFFSPRING’” Acts 17:28


Dear Lord-we pray
AS YOUR CHILDREN
To transform us
From earthly vessels
To heavenly bodies
To carry THE WORD OF GOD


“And we eagerly await
A Savior
From there- The Lord Jesus Christ


Who by the power
That enables him


To bring everything
UNDER his control


WILL TRANSFORM
OUR lowly bodies
So that
They will be like
HIS GLORIOUS BODY” Philippians 3:21


Dear Lord
We pray that you
Take our earthly vessels
And make them into HEAVENLY BODIES


TO CARRY THE WORD OF GOD


Robert P. Wallman
7-30-13




Ps WITNESS 9-7-13


Inspired by an article in LIVING FAITH magazine
By Sister Kathryn James Hermes, F.S.P.