Showing posts with label Peace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peace. Show all posts

May 16, 2020

All My Days Ordained

—A reminder, Church, that we are held in the hands of Abba and He alone knows the day, the hour and the moment we will join Him in paradise. But don’t you know that we enter into paradise the moment we follow Jesus as Savior and Lord? As you walk about and interact with the world around you, seek out and act upon the foundation of wisdom established in Christ Jesus, and do not do what they do. We are to love one another and demonstrate the HOPE and LIFE we find in Jesus Christ with everyone placed in our path. To live in fear is to live in sin. Stand up against injustice, and do not fear. The LORD, Yahweh, is with you. Lift up your eyes and be LIGHT shining in the darkness and a voice calling out in the wilderness, for Abba has ordained all the days of your life even before you took your first breath. This should be our prayer of faith, lifted up daily in the Holy Spirit: “Come, Lord Jesus. Come.”

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.”

~Psalms‬ ‭139:13-18‬ ‭NIV‬‬

March 01, 2015

Shalom, His Justice

Opportunity

God is working in me and in Tiffany, doing a new work within us and through us. An opportunity has been placed in our path, and we are earnestly seeking His direction. The task is a task of justice, kindness and humility; but what does justice, kindness and humility look like through the lens of Christ Jesus? Today I am intrigued with this word, a word I have heard many times before, but the concept seems vague still: justice.


Shalom
In seeking His heart for justice, I am praying and reading His word; I am studying the findings of others. Shalom was brought to my attention. Jim Wallis, in his entry How the Bible Understands Justice, paints a picture of shalom as justice for us. Let me share a few of his ideas that stood out to me: