“RAP” is a wonderful, beautiful, talented––meek, but fierce advocate of the Lord through the word––woman of God we’ve been privileged to know.
When I became a new Christian, I would sneak into the back of the room to hear her teach the area women the word of God.
Early in the morning I would read my Bible. Then I would listen to Christian radio. Stories of Great Christians and Unshackled would give me goose bumps. The lives of men of God meeting challenge became embedded in my thoughts never to leave.
When I worked second shift I enjoyed Tuesday Morning (the group name) with Ruth Ann Polston. When I worked first shift I enjoyed Wednesday night church with Pastor Polston. They encouraged everyone to share what God was showing us.
We didn’t need to be told to put off the old man and the ways of our former lives. We had found Christ at the altar the first visit to church. No one can ever understand the joy of salvation as the one who has also opened their heart to Him.
It’s real; it’s really true that He loves us. He did give His life for us, and He does come into us when we come to Him. The joy of salvation has always been an exclamation of believers. In the Psalms David craved the return of that joy when he had gone astray.
We are, as the Bible explains, like sheep. We graze here and there, not paying attention to where our grazing takes us. When we compromise wisdom in looking for happiness, we will find our happiness lost.
The Lord is A Shepherd, He looks for lost sheep. He restores the willing to Himself. Most of us are unfamiliar with this kind of intense mercy until we experience His. To be “saved” by the Savior is the single most important factor in becoming a Christian.
It might take awhile, but eventually we begin to realize we must “Put off” the old, and “Put on” the new person ( Colossians3:8).
The devil will make that seem impossible, a burden too great to accomplish, a life with no fun. He tempts us; we cave, and then he accuses us. (Revelations 12:10).
What then? The Savior, like the Shepherd He is, comes to us. He is not interested in the shame we experience except to take it away. He took OUR shame on the cross. This is the truth. The devil is “the father of lies” (John 8:44).
“We are not our own, we have been bought with a price” (1 Corinthians 6:20).
“The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over you with singing” (Zephaniah 3:17).
Friends, step forward with confidence in Him and Him alone. He who saves the willing, keeps the willing, and continuously loves His sheep.
Buddy
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History shows and scripture assures that with the few God has continuously turned some people’s worlds right-side-up. What is hard for us is do-able if to God we turn and in Him is our expectation. Our website, e-mail, and personal one-on-ones are our part; are we not His ambassadors and vessels through whom His love reaches the love-starved? You can contact us also on the internet: realthinkinc@charter.net. Let’s choose to go where He is going and do what He is doing.
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Interesting perspective. Thanks for the submit. – Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first. – Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
Just the other day I told some firends, “The next time I am given a life to live, I’m going to plan it.” Of course there is no “next” life. What is left of this one, I am seeking and following better than before. Even as Samson, I expect that the enemy in this life I live will see more strongholds of his torn down. It is true that “Greater is He in you, than is in the world.”
I will seize the opportunity I do have, “As the light shines brighter unto that day,” to live in the power of His might through faith. The battle is the Lord’s. He already made an open show of victory. When He consumates history, and the glory He has reserved for us is manifest, it will have been so much more than worth it all, that praise for our lips will never say enough, and joy that we experience will exceed anything we’ve ever known.
Oh, friend, we must seek to represent Him as He is, to all that we can.
Buddy
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