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Rest assure this is not a call for you to send me your confession and ask for me to forgive you. No, not even a sentence would suffice in this when one is asked to stand in the presence of God. No, we are made to stand in the God given, spirit filled, grace empowered, love of God. 

Sometimes the God we serve is not allowing us to stay the course we think will end the way we want. It’s not even a rest of the year plan we should be holding to. It’s love we need and can only accomplish this through God working in us to achieve the plan of Jesus on earth. 


With a God who cares for His sheep, we need to be careful and pride releasing. In Him we need to have our place and in Him we need to have grace to care for the ones He places in front of us. Our words are sharp and can forgive others through pain, disappointment, woundedness, grief and sadness.


God will also use our failure and shame to cause God’s plan to prosper. It’s freedom He ultimately needs us to accept and embrace. Though this case for great love is for God’s heart to be free to give us a love we not only can’t do without, we can’t stuff up. That is perfect love.


Woundedness can leave a person bear to transgression and sin. It can also give others reason ridicule and slander. Though God’s not one to trap us in graceless, merciless pity. It’s not like him to even have an ounce of sin in him. 


He’s pure and unadulterated by this world. He uses his God likeness in harmony with others will. He is now a love which guides and directs our footsteps to a place of repentance and salvation. He is a king who shields us from our own failings. He is our high priest, councillor and friend. We needed worry about our own sin or be caught by gracelessness. It’s by grace we are saved through faith in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:8).


It’s a grace we are not allowed to alter in our attempt to justify our love for the world. It’s only through Jesus our lives are made whole, perfect in His sight. I have been given a new life in Him who made a way to the Father. There is just the need to believe. This is our only faith action, to take hold of the truth and believe.


We are free by the blood of God shed on the cross. He left the sin there, dead and finished. Cleansed by the word of God for all to behold. We are now in him, ransomed by the grace of God for a new life. We are a new creation and sent out to set others free too. 

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  1. FannyWuNovember 27, 2021 at 12:25 PM

    Great writing, James. The Lord is bringing many lost souls back home in the coming days. True freedom can only be found in Christ Jesus. Blessings to you!

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