End of the year thoughts.


Willing, loving, joyful subservience and moment by moment dependence, the life of a follower of the Messiah!  A servant, who is totally dependent, so you see the beauty of receiving God's mercy?
Do you see the beauty of this life that is designed to destroy pride and elevate humility?

What wisdom!


Gentleness, tenderness two qualities we need more of.  Fruit of the Spirit available to whosover will. 


"But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;"   1 Peter 2:9  
"Holy race" ... singular... we are grafted into the one, already existing vine.


Exodus 19:5,6  "Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations--for the whole earth is Mine.
And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites."


Deut. 7:6   "For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession, above all peoples on the face of the earth."


So instead of trying to create a new thing called "church" why not enjoy and rejoice in your inclusion by grace through faith into an already existing, chosen, holy, race?


Taking Bonhoeffer's "Life Together" in the tiny little bites that it deserves.  It is a very deep, very practical book.