37 Grace for TODAY

Hey Mr. McGreggor…

 

Today is a new day, and the first day of the rest of your life…what are you going to do about it?    

I am busy getting over the flu, but also getting Zach’s Easter Basket ready to mail.   I told him he might be in his teens, but everyone needs  an Easter basket…I need one!  *Smile*   I hope I make him smile because I did when I got the idea to make him one… you know the candy corn they have ? Well I found some candy corn  but they were made into ‘chicken feet’...U G L Y !!    But quite funny, so that is what I am sending in his basket.  Remembering with fondness when I used to hide your baskets and then leave a trail of notes to find them.  Corny but fun...smile …

Thinking this a.m.  about  all the things that life has thrown at us, and how we handle them….what would we do without Jesus???????

As we walk this long road of life…often we are blasted with things that we have to deal with.   When we know Jesus personally, we are able (or not) to just throw them over our shoulder into Jesus arms for Him to carry, work out, or deal with-----and we go on our merry way without a care or a doubt…Right?  Wrong again Margaret!!!

We are very blessed indeed, to have a Savior who will do all that.  But I am quite sure that if I did not know Jesus and could depend on Him, I would, as Apostle Paul said, ‘ Be a most miserable man!’

But as I was reading yesterday about God’s Grace…We, by faith, can and do accept the fact that Christ was the ultimate pure Sacrifice….No one has ever found a way for sin to be forgiven forever without  ‘The Lamb of God and His  Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection.‘   

That is what this walk is all about.

Sins were dealt with, animals slain, blood flowed, but this all just pushed the sins away, for the time being...until it could be done by The Pure Sinless Lamb, Christ Jesus. 

   

ONCE FOR ALL…NO REPLAYS NEEDED…DONE… FINISHED…MISSION  ACCOMPLISHED…

And not only were they taken away, BUT thrown into the sea of forgetfulness,  NEVER to be remembered against us ever again.  Priceless!!!

Yep, we understand that we could do nothing, but He could…and He did!  Sound like a song?

We owed a debt we could not pay, He payed a debt He did not owe…

We can also accept this “Blessed Hope” of life after death to be eternally with that Perfect Lamb…Jesus…  We could never get there on our own, only He could make a way and He did….o.k. we got that, too.   The beginning and the ending (or the other beginning… smile)

He paid the ultimate price for our PAST…PRESENT  AND   FUTURE…  

 O.K. we got it….so what is the problem here?   Problem?  What problem?    The problem is in this life, the few short years we call our  sojourn  on earth…NOTHING has changed…God made the plan, Christ completed the plan…nothing else needs to be done or CAN be done by you and me…us!

As our Pastor said, ‘are you picking up what I’m laying down?’     

Do you get that the middle is just like the beginning and the end?     

Day after day, wearily we trudge along…things hitting the fan in a regular manner….

we forget who God is or what He says,

we think  He is asleep in the boat…

we think He needs our help, because things are not going right...

We forget that His plan is complete from beginning to end   without our help or input.

IT IS ALREADY DONE…..AT THE CROSS……Jesus exclaimed….IT IS FINISHED!!!!

Did He need our help, or does He now?   Absolutely not!!

Noooooooooooo all He needs is for us to trust Him and let Him do what He is doing, all for our own good.    

Remember the Potter and the  clay?    We are  just the POT…THE CLAY…WE ARE NOT EVEN THE WHEEL THAT TURNS THE POT…WE ARE TOTALLY HELPLESS…TOTALLY USELESS!!    

How can we be so  Egotistical as to possibly try and tell The Potter  how we want to be formed,  or try to tell Him what the problem is….

We are the problem… 

He is the Answer…

He has the answer.

So in  the middle part of this journey we make the problem…we think He needs our help …*smile*

 

Today…this minute… is  all we have….yesterday is gone,  just like our sins…tomorrow isn’t here yet…so we can’t accomplish anything tomorrow, today!  Nope!!   

  

This second is already gone…never to be recovered!!

Live today as if it was going to be all you have, it might be!  Don’t waste it…He sees ahead…listen to the Still Small voice….He loves you and is  ALWAYS nearby.   

Today He dropped a small word into my heart;  I was enjoying looking at my memories of our time with the Mouse House in Sacramento…these last two months….I am always aware of the tenuous  situation with your health, Greg…and I was musing about how was the fastest  way to get there, if in an emergency.  The thought that God dropped into my heart was, 

“I will tell you with urgency what to do.”

So I am adding that to my things I am truly learning and practicing…”don’t worry about tomorrow” ….pray the prayer that always works….”Thy will be done”…. Listen for directions “The still small voice.” 

How great and freeing is that?

The End!  Well, God is telling me to get out of the way, and let Him do His Stuff!!

Look up…hang on tight to  His hand…we’ll see you here, there, or in the air!!

Love y’all…Nanny…Marker…Mom …Sis…Grandma  (call me anything,  anytime, especially in time for dinner)  You too Cray!!