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A word of encouragement to someone struggling in faith and life

10/8/2014

 
To those who exist beneath the crushing weight of loathing inferiority, lost in the ashen shadows of perceived insignificance, those who have been stripped of any sense of purpose, consigned to the boneyard of fallen dreams, the Spirit of the Lord calls, saying, “dry bones live.”

As a child of God through Jesus Christ, live in the truth that God has created you, only one of you, not once but twice - the day of your natural birth from your mother’s womb and the day of your spiritual re-birth in Christ. In you and through you God has purposed to reveal His Glory and His Love. Live not according to the condemned manner of a life apart from His Saving Grace, but live as you are called and created to be in Christ, - redeemed, forgiven, renewed, and empowered by the Spirit to Live. The day of salvation, is the day of one’s greatest birth, the day that one begins to live beyond any measure that life without Christ could ever afford.

We are wondrously made by the Father in Heaven. No child of God is a worthless composite of lesser things. In Christ, the twisted image of what we were without Him is swallowed up in transforming grace. From saving grace we emerge in wholeness, not as an artificial person born of the surroundings that express a fraudulent claim in defining who we are. We are defined from above and not from below, our spirits are made whole from within and not from without. In Jesus Christ We Live!

When we look into the mirror of Truth (The Word of God) may we see someone who is whole and whose life is a gift from God.

1 John 3:1
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.


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