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Date: Saturday, February 13, 2021
Meditation Opportunities
(Biblegateway.com) Bible Verse of the
Day
John 3:16 (NIRV) 16 God so loved the
world that he gave his one and only Son. Anyone who believes in him will not
die but will have eternal life.
John 3:16 (MSG) 16-18 “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his
one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by
believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to
all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling
the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone
who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since
been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that
person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to
him.
Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com
Forgiveness
@TobyMac ft Lecrae
Eggshells @Hawk Nelson (ft. TobyMac)
Greater Than All My Regrets @Tenth Avenue North
(@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)
John 20:19,21
On the evening of that first day
of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked, for fear
of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “ Peace be with you!”… Again, Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the
Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
John 14:27
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I
give you. I do not give to you as the
world gives. Do not let your hearts be
troubled and do not be afraid.”
Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will
guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
The God Who Sees @The Rock, The Road, and The Rabbi
Foundation
Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):
Thank you, Lord, for this new day! Though in life things just are not fair; nor
was it for you who died at the hands of the world tortured and discarded like
you did not matter and worse than a criminal’s death Christ Jesus that you died.
We/I often wonder about the unfairness that transpires in my day
to day or even all around me. I often
wonder how we always just gravitate to what is negative, wrong at times in so
many levels. Getting caught up like the
fuel on any great bon fire; just exploding adding our own personal wants,
hurts, hangs-ups or any of those broken pieces we just can’t seem to put back
together and move forward without being stuck in the review of what was.
Sometimes the sun shines too bright up ahead and we are just blinded
when do not keep our eyes on you Lord.
Thankful and grateful than any regrets I had in yesterday and so
much better than anything I will make a mess of in tomorrows.
It is not me being that person calling out and speaking what I
would like to do with the mean people of the world. Yet my judgement does that not make me any
better than those that have chipped irreplaceable pieces away from this heart,
this spirit.
The need of forgiveness then, and every now moment I/we have ever
existed. If forgiveness could really
just pour out of our spirits in truth and us all; even me get back up and forgive
like you have and do.
Take accountibility for what we have done and do. Stop doing our best for what is easy and temporal
but dive in and knowing you alone Jesus are in control of the final destination,
move or plan.
We
can talk about the sadness of the so many who lost and never had a chance. The fathers beaten and groomed from the day
the were birthed in this world and died far too soon but at the hands of
brutality and evil. Leaving the true
picture in the minds of the babies left behind just how evil the world can be.
Yes,
RIP Luis as your daughters celebrated your 38th birthday at the
grave sight yesterday and all they can do is speak to the earth that hold your
ashes.
Or
what about that daughter and mother of four that never had any positive loving
support and found their courage for each day in a pill bottle since they were barely
teens.
Fighting
her demons through all the programs society gave yet her support for love and
just balance to know to keep fighting forward for herself and the babies she
had was by the same drug filled lost friends and lovers she was strangled
with. Until that one day at 28 years
old that mother, that daughter, that aunt, that sister that soul no longer woke
back up as the drugs won.
Never
will I understand how some of us have all those scars that still bleed out are
here today and blessed to know our worth in you Jesus, while others never got
to. Or even what about the Rocky’s and
Tommy’s Jesus. You know all things. Rocky how he got that name, wanting so much
to lose his past and so smart and talented replacing one addiction for another. Finding you and believing only to have his
physical body shut down as he finally tired that battle the world kept him in
entangled. Tommy a kid raised up in a
house of drug addicts in prison by age 10 for bad things and spending his life
out as an adult and knowing the right from wrong with a heart and loyalty so great that he would
go back to prison for the family that would feed him to the demons just to get
the next fix.
Those
you have allowed me to connect; some that would easily run you through then
pretend to care what you are going through.
As their cuts are far deeper than
anyone in the world cares to look and help.
Keep
your friends close and your enemies closer so they say in the world. You tried that in this messed up Jesus. You walked and sat with the least of these longer
than anyone could showing mercy and grace despite how they turned on you.
It
is true, those with a checkered past that just assume cut your throat are
better to know than those who pretend you really know them. Especially when they will never be truthful to
themselves and the baggage they carry, and they are too busy destroying to take
anything they think of value the world and who they scope out may have.
I
can dwell on all those that I have been blessed to be connected and even those
who are family that it is what it is no choice just like they say you can pick
your friends, but you cannot pick your family.
I can know how blessed I am to understand the
good, the bad and the indifferent and the family you gave me by blood and by
spirit Jesus.
Every single connection, every single soul that we look in the
face, the eyes, the hearts of whatever level we may be allowed. Has purpose with and for you. Our lives matter and we are never alone.
None of us have to settle and do or be what the world says we
must. Yes, we all must pay the price of
the choices we make or become the collateral damage when we do not; or worse
yet live with the demons that slowly eat us alive until our vessels are no more
in this world and our souls are lost forever when we do not find you before
leaving.
Funny how the BIBLE is the Basic Instruction Before Leaving
Earth. To know you Jesus; know that
you too died too soon for the number of years you walked, within the earth. Yet had you not; perhaps none of this or the mind
that I am allowed to pour out each day would never be.
Perhaps my fighting to survive stopped when you allowed me to see and
my heart stopped hating what I did not understand. Even though I walk through this world so
insignificant and still trying to matter.
Knowing I will never be enough for those of the world. You allow me to find comfort knowing you
are in control, knowing somehow you love and want me. When not even those that were vessels to
allow me in; never had a clue or want to guide and lead me.
Lord, please heal this land and all that is shattered and in
broken pieces within every soul we/I come to know. I am redeemed and free in you and forever
craving, desiring that pure love from the outside in as you give and allow me
to be forever free from the inside out.
Forgiveness Lord, may I never see the good in those you allow me
to be on a path and connect. Though I seek
your guidance your protection and not walls but boundaries that I am able to
shine through and be that real help and not just another notch of their
collection of one over for whatever they are chasing.
May I walk in confidence yet not ego. May I never walk on eggshells walking life
with you Jesus and when I am slowly being consumed because my heart is on my sleeve. Protect me and all you are in me from the
shadows, the trolls, the wolves, myself!
Reconcile Lord all you choose to be reconciled. May all the helpers know we cannot fix or
many anyone better or anything they do not work for themselves.
Wanting, praying and being a light is required; but the best of anyone
including our own beings comes from deep within the very souls we are made of
and with that very knowledge only you Jesus can and will make the way for each
and everyone of us. May we all call upon
you and know justice, harmony, and undeniable peace and love is yours for
eternal life in and with you Christ.
When life is too good to be true, give it to God. Know you too must have boundaries and if you
choose to ignore them. You/me will
need to pay the cost of the end result and sometimes that wave that washes out
will leave scars if not remove those you were blessed with.
The price we pay to live and what we chase will outline the layers
we choose to carry any days we are given.
Because when we call upon Jesus to take the wheel of all we are. Even though we will never always get it
right. He will see us through and bless
us with abundant mercy, grace, and ability to get back up and keep trying to
grow forward. To keep trying to shine
even a flicker of what is good. No
matter how it hurts when our own choices seem wrong, gullible or in the hands
of those who just want no matter who they destroy.
Don’t lose faith, find your peace, find your harmony, find your
strength in the depths of God the father, Jesus the one and only son of man
sent to die so we can live most importantly find what it means to allow the
trinity to come live in you. Invite the Holy
Spirit in and guide you.
Thank you, Lord, for allowing me back up and maybe what I tap out
helps, maybe others think or even get angry about my thoughts pouring out. Maybe I am that target for all those
pretenders.
Whatever the case may be Jesus.
You are, you were, and you always will be! You are real to me and all my hope and faith
no matter how hard it is to get back up or at times it hurts. You are in control. May the seeds of faith and hope for greater
things be planted in healing and love as I am allowed to continue this
journey. Thank you, Jesus Christ, for preparing the
way home to the Fathers house.
We will never fully grasp your will and why or how. But Lord may I always cling to faith in you
first and always and grow forward in your will; not my own. My own selfish thoughts, desires, ambitions
may be not as little as some or more than most.
May be with great intentions and poor circumstance leading many into the
path of collateral damage repair. Or maybe
what is needed to stay out of harms way.
Only you can lead me to know. I
cannot do this on my own. I don’t want
to do this so-called life without you Jesus!
May we/I trust and lean
in on you every moment we are given knowing you have already took all the pain
and suffering for all the wrong turns we will and do make. May
we learn how to live while dying to self and with humility grow in abundance
and bright for and with you.
IN YOUR NAME, YOUR BLOOD THAT POURED OUT, JESUS be with us all.
