Good Morning Friends! Wonderfully wrapped in His loving arms Wednesday! I was so excited yesterday at the prospect of finally getting to come to work on CR 1600….if you reach back, you might remember I shared when it closed quite some time ago. More miles and time for me, so I was so glad when I found out Monday night that it was open (well sort of). I headed out early yesterday because of the rain, but I was excited about being back on 1600! My goodness, what a difference, the old road was so rough, bumpy, and full of potholes….the new road smooth, wider and no potholes! Just amazing to me what they can do with good equipment and man power…..an old road, “brand new.” As I drove along a thought came to me…..we too can be brand new…..no matter how rough and bumpy we become, no matter how many potholes or how deep they are….we can be “band new” again too! Oh friends, my heart warmed as I felt HIS arms around me…reassuring me that through the blood, the death, and resurrection of His ONLY SON, JESUS we can be ‘brand new,” washed clean, free from our sin and guilt….from the bumpy, narrow road that we sometimes travel…….There’s always, always HOPE for us and those we love through JESUS……smile with me, thank our Father for HIS unending grace and mercy, and never give up on yourself or a loved one no matter how deep the potholes….Go to HIM, Be Still, lean into HIS embrace, Listen….Trust……Believe……HE Makes all things NEW….BRAND NEW. Thank you Father! All honor and praise to YOU!
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life…..for sin shall not be your master because you are not under the law, but under grace…..For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. From Romans 6. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5: 17-18 & 21. As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:12. It is by grace you have been save, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the girl of God. Ephesians 2:8. Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17:20.
Love you all!
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