JOURNAL=4-13-15=LIVING IN THE SPIRIT
“And NOW-Lord-take note of their threats-and enable your SERVANTS-to speak to your WORD-with ALL BOLDNESS........” Acts 4:29
We live in a dangerous world-a world with terrorist threats that seem to be becoming MORE DANGEROUS every day-a world with crime on our streets-in every city in America-and it has never been more dangerous-sometimes-it seems we are NOT even safe living in our own homes
Yet the message of EASTER still resounds in us/and in me/choose GOD-choose life-we NEVER have to be ashamed of God or Christ
WHERE we are in life-is the SUM OF ALL the choices that we have made-and I am PROUD of the choices that I have made/and I am happy to be a GOD and CHRIST follower-doing my best to LIVE what Jesus has taught us=love-forgive-and BE KIND
LIVE in the SPIRIT of God-
Walk in the spirit of Christ
DON'T live in the gray area-but LIVE BOLDLY in the spirit of love
IT IS a GREAT DAY to be ALIVE in GOD'S LOVE For us
LIVING IN GOD
Do you ever feel
Like that
You have died
To this world
That you are no longer
Carrying yourself
BUT that it is God and Christ
Who are carrying you
I often have
SINCE my deathbed experience
At age 22
“I have been
CRUCIFIED with Christ
And I no longer live
But Christ LIVES in me
The life I live
In the body
I LIVE BY FAITH
In the SON OF GOD
Who loves me
And gave himself for me” Galatians 2:20
I COMPLETELY
Identify with Saint Paul
Left to my own devices
And my own strength
I don't feel like
I could take another step
IT IS GOD
It is Christ
Who are
Completely carrying me
Saint Paul
Is the EPITOME
Of what it means
To be a CHRISTIAN
He is REAL
He is HONEST
He has a firm sense
Of his own gifts
SOMETIMES he is boastful
And yet he is
Also HUMBLE
AND AWARE of his own weaknesses
“I DO NOT UNDERSTAND
What I do
For what
I want to do
I do not do
BUT what I hate
I do” Romans 7:15
MAYBE we are
A lot more like Paul
Than we care
To admit
OUR INTENTIONS
Are good
WE WANT to do good
For others
But for whatever reason
Sometimes we are UNABLE
To carry it out
But Paul CHOSE GOD
Over sin
Are we able
To do the same
For if we can do that
We are truly LIVING IN GOD
As Paul was
And in Philippians
Paul writes:
“I am caught
BETWEEN the two
I long to DEPART
This life
And be with Christ
For that
Is far better
Yet I am REMAINING
In the flesh
It is more necessary
For your BENEFIT” Philippians 1:23-24
I empathize with Paul
In this area too
I WISH
I could leave this world
And LIVE FOREVER in Christ
But God wants me
IN this world
For whatever reason
And I will
GIVE my testimony of God-
MY TESTIMONY OF GOD'S LOVE for them-
To whoever WILL LISTEN
Dear Lord
I am LIVING on
Your coattails
You are
THE LOVE of my life
And I am
LIVING IN GOD
Robert P. Wallman
10-10-14
Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Amy Welborn
1-8-15-&4-13-15 & 4-3-17 and 5-17-2026
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