Showing posts with label Titus 3:5. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Titus 3:5. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

REGENERATION: Radical Rebuild By Reformation!







How Do You Wish To Be Transformed!?! 

Will Icing On Ginger-Bread Suffice 
Aka New Hair-Do, Wardrobe, Eyeglasses
Table Etiquette And Language Lessons, And New Friends!?! 

How About An Attitude Adjustment 
As Can Only Be Accomplished By 
The Inward Working Of The Holy Spirit Of God 
With Your Total Cooperation!?! 

Beloved, 

To Accomplish A Transformation That 
Will See Us Arriving Safely In The Heavenly Land 
Requires A Gut Rehabilitation
A Very Painful, Uncomfortable
Unwanted But Necessary Strip Down
Rip Out
Scrape Off
Burn Off
Throw Out 
Radical Rebuild By Reformation! 

If You've Ever Cut Your Finger
Gotten A Stye In Your Eye
Broken A Bone
Gotten Burnt
Fallen On Gravel Or Cement
Gotten A Thorn Or Had A Sliver Of Wood
Glass Or Metal Enter Your Skin 
And
Have Endured The Revealing, Extraction, Cleaning
And 
Regenerative Process Required 
To Make You Whole, Fit ... Functional
You Know That Quick, Cheap, And Piece O'Cake 
Are Not Descriptions Thrown Around! 

The Lord Jesus Who Knows Us Each Individually 
And
Better Than We Will Ever Know Ourselves
Desires To Transform
Revive
And 
Reform Us To Render Us Ready 
And 
Able To Stand Before His Consuming Presence 
And 
Not Die! 

Just The Facts ...

Neither Buttercream Nor Royal "Icing" 
Will Cover The Rough Surface Of 
A Sinful Character 
Nor The Jagged Lines Carved Into Us 
By Walking Wild On Base Broadway! 

Be Encouraged ... 

He Who Calls Us To Be Transformed
Readies Us For 
And 
Accompanies Us In Our Transformation 
And
Has Already Footed The Big Bill For Our Bad Behavior! 

Jesus Christ The Righteous Paid For It All
So That All We Have To Do 
Is 
Accept The Service Of Sacrificial Love 
By Faith
With Cooperative Obedience
To Gain The Eternal Blessed And Beautiful Benefit Of 
The New Birth! 

Joy Comes In The Getting-Up Morning! 

Peace!





Wednesday, February 10, 2016

TRUTH: What Do YOU Know?




Let Us Therefore Confess Our Sins
AND
Repent
AND
Be Baptized
For
Reconciliation and
Regeneration are
Requirements
Before The Soul
Can Make The Grand Appearing
As
The Saint Saved 
In
The Eternal God!

IF
We Believe
That We Are In Christ
The Old US 
Performs
The Act of Disappearing
AND
The Man Made New
By The Earnest Hope of Trust In The Lord
Becomes The New Man
By Faith
With 
The Advent of The Holy Spirit's Indwelling!

The Faithful Walk By Spirit Faith
Not By Carnal Seeing Eyesight
And He Trusts
That By His Having Reasoned With God
That Jesus Christ Holds Him
- Not That Deceitful Old Fraud -
And He Walks In The Light
From The Light of Love
Who Gives Life 
AND
Confidence In The Coming Day of Rewarding!

Believers -
You Dear Brethren
Who Trust In The Lord -
Look Not At Your Situation
Created by King Fraud!
Look To Jesus
The Author Finisher Of Our Living Faith
AND
Boldly Tell Old Satan:

"You Have No Part In Us!
Our Jesus Already Won For Us This Race!
We Are Wholly Saved By The Living Eternal God!"

Believers In Jesus Christ
Do Your Soul A Favor
And Paint This Little Picture In Your Mind:

Since Christ Has Already Won US Our Crowns
Satan Is - In Essence -
Trying To Run-and-Board Us 
Such As Would A Left-sided Two-legged Dog 
Against An Arabian Stallion 
In An Uphill Climb!

It Ain't Going To Happen!


The Point Is: 

If 

We Trust Jesus Christ's Sacrifice 
and 
His Holy Words of Promised Blessings 
and 
Redemption 
and
Continue Walking Faithfully
-  in The Fullness of God's Time - 
We Can't Lose, and Satan Can't Win!




BELIEVE 

1/2 of What You Hear 

and 

0/0 of What You See!


*******

Men Lie!

and

Eyes Deceive!



*******

Trust God!
and
Trust In God!!








Tuesday, January 26, 2016

PRAYER: Work Of (He)Art!


Father,
Everybody Wants To Be 
A Work of Art!
Everybody Wants Their Home To Be Filled 
With Objets d'art!
Everybody Desires To 
The Trend Be The Start
BUT
Lord,
Would You Please Be Kind
AND
Regenerate This Wicked Human Heart?!

Make Me Anew!
Remove My Bad Habits Not A Few!
Lift Me Up And Turn Me Around
When Honorable Traits Are Askew
AND
Lord,
Please Know That I Love You!
Truly, I Do!
AMEN.