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Thursday, December 22nd, 2022
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Luke 2:8-11 ESV English Standard Version
The Shepherds and the Angels
8 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field,
keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And
an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord
shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. 10 And
the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great
joy that will be for all the people. 11 For unto
you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who
is Christ the Lord.
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As I look out my kitchen window and see that one fallen soldier
inflatable that just does not seem to be able to make stay tall and firm. I am reminded just how many fallen soldiers
have never gotten back up in this world.
Those I knew well, those that broke my heart from such a great loss and positive
impact that was made on everyone they touched just in walking by. Those who God called home and needed for the
spiritual war that is raging for his Angel army.
Celebration yesterday of 10 years gone, to those who are on the edge
and if they don’t fight hard with God, calling on Jesus too will be a memory
with just the sadness of addictions and struggles that got the best of them.
No matter how many times I go hold that soldier up, for whatever the
reason another just keeps going down.
The weariness in our real world, the struggles of the battles against
humanity that no one deserves to be consumed by. I wonder why and how this could be? The battles rage on, yet we forget the war
was already won.
We must cleanse our souls and rest in Him.
If only we could all have the strength and courage to keep getting back
up and leading the way for peace, love, and harmony.
Feeling surrounded we need to pick the battles we will give away our
peace and pieces of our lives that we will never get back. And if, we will choose to fight; will it be
knowing we have the Armor of God on. In
and with Jesus Christ?
Not just because today we get
up and we say we now have a relationship with him; but, living, walking, talking,
and doing our very best walking in faith and obedience. James
2 ESV English Standard Version
The Sin of Partiality
2 My
brothers,[a] show no partiality as you hold
the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. 2 For
if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a
poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, 3 and if you pay
attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a
good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or,
“Sit down at my feet,” 4 have you not
then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil
thoughts? 5 Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God
chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs
of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? 6 But
you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress
you, and the ones who drag you into court? 7 Are
they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were
called?
8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the
Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. 9 But
if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the
law as transgressors. 10 For whoever
keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. 11 For
he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If
you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the
law. 12 So speak and so act as those who are to be
judged under the law of liberty. 13 For judgment
is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Faith Without Works Is Dead
14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has
faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If
a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and
one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving
them the things needed for the body, what good[b] is that? 17 So
also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me
your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my
works. 19 You believe that God is one; you do well.
Even the demons believe—and shudder! 20 Do you want to
be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? 21 Was
not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on
the altar? 22 You see that faith was active along with
his works, and faith was completed by his works; 23 and
the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was
counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. 24 You
see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 And
in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by
works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? 26 For
as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is
dead.
Footnotes
- James 2:1 Or brothers
and sisters; also verses 5, 14
- James 2:16 Or benefit
We think we are in control and although we can dictate control over
others for our own selfish consumptions.
Control is just an illusion. As the
only one that truly is in power even if it does not seem he is in our moments
allowed to suffer. Jesus! There is no other that allows us to truly
connect with God the Father. To be
with, to be within we must have that blind faith hope relation with him every
second of or desperate lives as we breathe in or out.
With all the prophets, all the wisemen, all the seen and unseen miracles
we must surrender to the one that bled out and breathed us to life from the
very dust we are created. There will
be those that dictate or lead the abilities of sorrow or even great blessings
that will allow us to remain so misguided in our sufferings. Yet we must surrender fully to find the peace
that no one can truly explain even in the fire.
I don’t know how through all my broken pieces and almost should of,
would of, could of’s I still managed to be called and a chosen child of the
same God that created all the stars or moon and sun in the sky. How I can look up at the same time my
brothers and sisters of another look too.
Yet my life could be so different than any other.
We all bleed he same. There may
have been a different vessel that allowed our entry to this world. A different circumstance: yet we are here!
Be it we are choosing to be the homeless living off the grid, or circumstances
took all we are, and we are starting from nothing again. Or the superstar celebrity or born into that
lap of luxury for what others have done and we are part of the blessed
curse. As we feel no matter how much it
never fills us or allows us true life.
So many times, looking around and missing that comfort cozy little
piece of life. Constantly making changes
thinking this is it and suddenly one day its just not working any longer and we
discard the same people, places, and things we thought were giving us the very
life we never really wanted. It only
fulfilled the selfish ambitions and conquests that we never really understood
were driving us in the first please.
I pray in all my redemption that Jesus, you forever remember us and
forgive what I personally could never
see that I was doing or was coming my way and I didn’t move out of the way to
your safety quickly or long enough.
Thank you for calling me Father your chosen; thanking you for allowing
me to see, live, grow to be the child of God that only you truly understand the
meaning. For I will always fall short
of your honor, glory, and daily blessings of being allowed to get back up one
more day.
Thank you for allowing me to know there is a place and purpose for me
in this fallen world. Thank you for
allowing me to continue to fight for all those you tie up in my heart strings. More than any building, more than any flash, cash
or what we can stash. Not any
loneliness or at times the worthlessness that beings of this world project out
and sometimes land on us as we continue our own journey. The storms may come and wash all that could
have been away; or the dark souls just trying to fill their gaps may come and
harm and even take the very lives you allowed to be. Yet you Jesus will have always suffered greater
for no reason but to give us hope in and for humanity.
So, what if we stumble! With
you, in you the mercy in the dirt face down allows us to clearly see what all
the static noise and distractions never will.
For the depths of love for all you allow to fill this spirit ~ Bless
them!
For all the gifts of relationship you allow to connect ~ Bless them!
Leading us in your harmony that is pure and beyond any reach that only
you understand ~ Bless us!
No matter if it is gone North, South, East or West. You Jesus are everywhere.
For when I go down again in the brokenness I just cannot fix or change
for others suffering~ May they truly know they are blessed Jesus!
You know all things
Every single beautiful soul that never found their purpose with you and
fed the demons until the demons consumed them ~ bless them even now wherever
their souls may be!
May they see you now, as it took me so long, but I finally opened my
heart~ May they all do so now!
For all the lonely hearts and broken souls searching; Lord fill them up
in your endless abundant grace in salvation for all the eternal redemption and uncountable
blessings in love?
May the pictures of all that is beautiful forever fill the spirits that
travel this world and shine bright into the eyes of those who seek.
May the darkness that is so lost and consumed by itself be washed away
and once again peace and harmony the way you intended grow in abundance.
Heal us Lord
Change us
Fill us up in all you are Jesus with all your amazing grace
You are and always will be in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit!
You Jesus know all things, all the suffering, all the beauty in the
ashes and all the innocence that man will destroy. Heal this land giving us the courage to fight
forward in and with you.
Change us, allowing our will to be yours’
May all you have allowed me to connect with me at some point and time
in this journey; smile upon the blessings with the eyes of your heart and love
in your soul.
We all lead by example, as there is someone always watching.
May we lead to do more than just go through the motions. May we lead more than to just want what we
want until we get it. May we live in
love and plant and sow all that is beautiful in and with beyond intentions
without judgement, yet full protection and guidance.
Thank you
To see
To hear
To speak
May all we do be protected from seeing evil, being evil, hearing evil,
speaking evil.
Not just this day but every day we are allowed back up. And if we cannot; may we cling to you Jesus
to lead us out and wash us clean with helping hands to anyone reaching out.
Father of all things, may yours be the hand that helps us stand tall
and ties the comfort, protection, and all that brings life in that beautifully
wrapped package for each and every soul walking this earth and place it within
us every day we are allowed to just breathe in and know you are the reason for
all things we have been granted a journey to take.
Hearing all the unspoken hearts, catching all the fallen tears.
Thank you for then, thank you for now and any tomorrow’s
Please keep our soldiers safe, warm, and comforted in you ending all
wars and bringing us back home to you.
May all find peace now in this season and any given in the known tomorrows Merry Christmas season and a very blessed New
Year
