GREENE STREET LETTERS: Who Am I Lord?

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Who Am I Lord?

Ps. 8
V.1 - O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is thy name in all the earth, who has displayed thy splendor above the heavens!
I love the way David states this. He claims God for himself as he writes "O Lord, our Lord." We have to truly understand that we are His and He is ours. We abide in Jesus and Jesus abides in us.We can see the name of the Lord if we look around ourselves.

God told Moses that His name was "I AM". The name of God is open ended and by that I mean you can add to the name of God what ever it is you need Him to do. If you need salvation for your life today, then you can cry out to God whose name is "I AM SALVATION." If you need peace and assurance in your life and heart, then cry out to God whose name is "I AM PEACE AND ASSURANCE."

V.4 - What is man, that Thou dost take thought of him? And the son of man, that thou dost care for him?

Me, with all my mess........all my sin.........all my stuff that I carry around......and God still takes notice of me and wants to have relationship with me. Why? Because I am part of His creation. I am the reason that Jesus walked out God's plan for restoration. Jesus willingly went to the cross and gave His life. No one took it. No one killed him. He gave up His life to pay the price for me and everyone else who has lived and is living and will live. That if we confess with our mouths that Jesus Christ is Lord, and believe in our hearts that God has raised Him from the dead, we will be saved. Dude! That is heavy duty stuff.

Find God today.Open up your heart to the pure, unadulterated fact that your Father in heaven loves you and wants you to come to Him. Whatever your problem............whatever your situation.........what ever your lot in life..........His desire is that you come to Him and begin anew this relationship you were created to have.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus....
Look full in His wonderful face....
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim...
in the light of His glory and grace........

God on you.............
MB

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Looking At The World Through Cracked Lens

As ol' Paul wrote in his Corinthian letters.."We see in part and we know in part." Now what piece of this bit of wisdom do we not get? I wish to not run around acting and trying to be some sort of Biblical G00-Ru (I meant to spell it wrong). Or a sage of sages.

I simply want to be able to communicate some of what God has given to me. Why? Do I think what I get is better than what you may have received from Him? Nope. But I do think encouragement comes when we share our daily story of struggle and victory in an effort to encourage each other.

Thanks for letting me share.

Time to soldier on..

mbb

Our Statement of Faith

We believe that God is the eternal king. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power and love. From all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons of one substance, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit equal in power and glory. we believe that God created mankind in His image, male and female, for relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the temptation of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness and God's judgment of death to the earth. Through the fall, Satan and his demonic hosts gained access to God's good creation. Creation now experiences the consequences and effects of Adam's original sin. Human beings are born into sin, subject to God's judgment of death and captive to Satan's kingdom of darkness. We believe that Jesus, God's Son, was sent to this world, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, fully God and fully man in one person. He is humanity as God intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as God's Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit, ushering in God's kingdom reign on earth, overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons and raising the dead. Jesus' atoning death on the cross took God's judgment for sin which we deserved as law-breakers. Jesus' resurrection and ascent back to heaven opened the door for those who received salvation to begin a relationship with God.

Little Nets Into Deep Waters

Fishing nets were designed for one purpose only. To catch fish. Nets are no good if they stay on the boat. Nets serve no purpose if they are never used. I think maybe God sees us this way. We are all created for a purpose (by the way, the creator gets to define what our purpose is). Any other use besides the one we were created for does us no good. But when the creator places His hands upon us, casting us out into those scary, dark places with deep waters, it is then we can see the reality of our purpose. He knew there would be a catch waiting for us. I think I will be the net God has called me to be.

The Twelve Steps

As a community of people in recovery, we affirm that our higher power is Jesus Christ. He did for us what we could not do for ourselves. Just as God told the children of Israel He was going to give them a promised land, He has revealed to us that He desires to give us a "Promised Life." When Israel got to the promised land, God instructed them to go and in a possess it, fight for it and claim it. In recovery, the 12 Steps are the directions given to us on how to fight, possess and claim this promised life.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Who Am I Lord?

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THE REALITY OF THE NAME OF GOD