The Quiet Place

Pursuing righteousness is a very real struggle. Sometimes it feels near impossible. We get lost in the busyness and shuffle of life, we get discouraged by our failures, feel frustrated with our own inability to change; especially when we know what choices we should be making. Romans 7:15-17 comes to mind every time I think of this struggle,  "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me." These verses encourage me because they remind me that my failures do not become me. God does not define me by my shortcomings. He knows that I will mess up on a daily basis and still calls me daughter. He loves me for who I am, not what I have done or what I will do. I am his, and that makes me an heir to the kingdom, a beneficiary of his great inheritance.  God's love is unconditional . Dictio

For we have been reconciled to Christ we are no longer slaves to the ways of this world we are slaves to the ways of God. (A personal paraphrase of Romans 6:17-19) My pastor shared tonight of a man who was on an island fighting for Japan in World War Two. The man was so loyal to his mission that when people sent word to him that the war was over he did not believe them and thought it was a trap. You see everyone on the island had surrendered except for three people. The thing is the man ended up fighting for thirty years after the war was over because he was hidden in that island and he saw every attempt that people made to inform him that the war was finished, as a trap. He even killed 30 innocent people because of it. When someone was finally able to reach out to this man and peacefully inform him that the war had been long finished, the man was so sad that he had missed out on thirty years.  This story is so sad, frustrating, and disappointing because this man fought

The Lord told me that the theme for March this year is Pursuing Righteousness. So I thought it would be cool to google some images with that as my search. Then I found these two beautiful verses.  I'm not sure what God is up to, but I hope you will join us here on the blog this month to find out.  Lets work on Pursuing Righteousness together. I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenword in Christ Jesus. Phillipians 3:14