DAD'S DAILY BREAD

22 This righteousness of God comes through faith in Jesus Christ for all those [Jew or Gentile] who believe [and trust in Him and acknowledge Him as God’s Son]. There is no distinction, 23 since all have sinned and continually fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are being justified [declared free of the guilt of sin, made acceptable to God, and granted eternal life] as a gift by His [precious, undeserved] [c]grace, through the redemption [the payment for our sin] which is [provided] in Christ Jesus; Rom 3 amp

Someone once told me that when you see phrases like “BUT NOW or therefore” you really need to pay attention! God is telling us something life changing and it’s something so big that you need to apply it to your life! Just look at the scripture above. I have read it a thousand times and everytime it’s something I have to accept by faith because it doesn’t make sense why someone would do that for me… The God of the universe gave up HIS only son so that we could have a right and holy relationship with HIM. It is something we cannot attain on our own. Paul made that really clear in the earlier chapters!

So therefore we are to accept all that glorious stuff by faith! It seems so unnatural at first. But once you truly accept it and let that glorious information set into your life, that’s when you actually begin to walk on God’ righteous path. God will always give you a choice! For me I have to choose hourly, almost by the minute… Who am I going to serve? There are really only 2 options. You are going to serve yourself or the one who gave it all so that we could live the life God designed for us. 

I have spent so many years serving myself! And I can testify that God’s way is the only way to true happiness and lasting peace! Still daily I have to battle as my flesh will put myself right back on the throne. But thanks to God’s word I can look at my own life and see how I’m doing… If I’m not living and breathing all the attributes of God and Jesus then have I really been saved? Whether you feel you can lose your salvation or not, I can use scripture to test myself daily. Are my actions matching up with my words? If you’re honest with yourself and want to please God I think that would be a question you ask yourself often. Not because you doubt the faithfulness of God but because you truly know how filthy and wretched you are. 

God’s word will continue to show you things in your life you need to eliminate. The true question is, are you going to get rid of all that sin or are you going to just continue to live however you want?? That is the question I battle with everyday and without scripture there to encourage and guide and strengthen me I don’t know where I would be today. God saved me from a life of destruction and pain. And He deserves my allegiance!! God please grant me the strength to change. Get rid of the sinful things in my life so I can freely live a life that brings you glory!

APPLICATION:

Think about the attributes of Christ often! REMEMBER WHAT GOD SAVED ME FROM!! Test myself daily by looking at my fruit! Is my tree empty and wilted and slowly shrinking back into the dirt or am I producing juicy fruit! Fruit that is delicious and attractive. The kind of fruit people drive out of their way to find and enjoy. It’s really that simple. Your fruit will expose what your heart truly believes and who you’re serving! We are sinful humans so don’t be surprised when you find yourself serving something or someone other than God but don’t stay there!!! Repent and do a 180 degree turn and RUN in the opposite direction and right into your fathers arms. HE WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU OR FORSAKE YOU so dont waste anymore of your life serving yourself! It’s a daily choice and a daily battle but once you finally have the peace and happiness that only God can give you, you will never want to go back! Father, please have mercy on me. I am so unworthy! Give me the strength to be better! Thank you for saving me when I didn’t, and still don’t, deserve it!! YOU ARE AN AWESOME GOD!! THANK YOU!!

IN HIS NAME