How blessed we are that Jesus Christ is eternal God . He is Our mighty Reconciler Himself. Jesus Christ is Our Prince of Peace. O let us hallow and honour Our Beloved's Name above all Names; for His love is like a rainbow of righteousness that adds spectacular splendour to the quality of our lives.How contented and fulfilled we are with Our mighty Counselor. Lord Jesus Christ Your eagerness for us to do good inspires us, minute by minute, lifting us to God-honouring speech and deeds with eagle-like strength. We thank You holy Jesus Christ for Your majestical faith that pours forth from our inner being like cascading water. You reign in heaven and earth as Our eternal Father. You are mighty God Himself. You are Jesus Christ, Our Prince of Peace and Our unique Purifer. O let us hallow and honour Your Name; for Your love is like a rainbow of righteousness that adds, ongoingly, spectacular splendour to the quality of our lives. We love You Lovable One! Holy God stated in the Holy Bible that"My salvation is about to come and My righteousness is about to be revealed". This can be legitimately rewritten My Jesus Christ is about to come and My Jesus Christ is about to be revealed. Having linked everything together we need to recall now that everything we do must fit the pattern of loving God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength; for this is God's commandment in Exodus 20. No human being, through dint of their own efforts, can ever obtain to the standard of speech and deed life neccessary to obtain righteousness before God. Be wise and hunger and thirst for righteousness. Be wise and hunger and thirst ongoingly for Our Saviour King Jesus Christ! The truth is that only one name, Jesus Christ, has ever lived a sinless life. When we put any other name under the microscope of our inspection, (your name and mine included), we will find that we and everyone else have sinned! Jesus Christ, uniquely, was without spot or blemish. God gave Him the fitting title (Jesus) Christ the righteous. All His titles or names tell the truth about Him. He is Immanuel: God with us He is Jesus: God Our Saviour He is Christ: The annointed One of God He is the lamb slain before the foundation of the earth He is the eternal Word of God He is the good Shepherd of our soul He is the beginning and the end Jesus Christ, Our beautiful Redeemer, is the righteousness that God commands us to hunger and thirst for.Singing a song of love to Jesus Christ gladdens our heart
Gaining the attention of balloon-shaped ballerinas who refuse to do anything except walk around on their tip toes looking for new ways to escape God's keen gaze is Jesus Christ's desire.
My neighbor are professional ballerinas. Despite being gifted with magnificently flexible bodies they behave- all too often- appallingly inflexibly. God has outfitted them superbly with a body, soul and spirit. I am a ballerina, too, in search of a more graceful style of dancing and writing. Very talented at avoiding each others glare, and with a uniquely honed vision for spotting foolishness to partake in. Let us not behave like this! Instead of being thankful toward His compassionate Creator wicked man chooses to continue skirting around on the tips of his toes occasionally willfully tripping up fellow ballerinas if they tread on his toes.
It's a lifestyle that has perfect prospects, unless repented of, of ending with a major, major fall onto the floor of missed opportunities. Looking at natural man, clothed both in male and female bodies, one is struck by the fact that many of them are making the greatest mistake one can make: namely that of being relatively inactive in the pursuit of wisdom. God's loving voice challenges us to be holy. The more we pirouette, in perfect isolation from His voice of perfection, goodness and purity the more we will stutter and stammer at or remain silent about God's holy Scriptures. The more perfect we became in our own eyes, the more we will desire to tiptoe on our tiptoes away from truth.
Addicted thus to our own misguided belief in our ballooning attractiveness we will find it harder and harder to desire to live obediently before Our God.
Precious Jesus Christ, You are heaven's beautiful gracious breeze that refreshes man's body soul and spirit. You are God's presence in fullness of glory. Be merciful with us for the natural man or fallen man struggles to understand that repentance and faith are Your two requirements for salvation. He struggles to appreciate in his ludicrous, leaning tower of Pisa pose that both are essential if man's salvation is to be real! Forgive us for we have stretched our necks away from considering conscientiously Your holy Word. We have stretched and contorted ourselves so much that a genuine ongoing desire to cry unto You for mercy from the depths of our hearts has not be cherished as precious by the multitudes.
Majesty upon high, have mercy on our occasional deep groans for help. Teach Your wayward ballerinas, with elongated long necks, that they are mistaken in relying on their "deep-felt feelings" of innocence. Teach them the necessity of pursuing true faith and true repentance.
Misguided ballerinas repentance is absolutely essential for salvation. Jesus said, "Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish" (Luke 13:3). "[God] now commandeth all men everywhere to repent" (Acts 17:30). Stubborn-hearted neighbour I know that your toes are suffering from the toothache of striving. I know that your toes, like your conscience, are starting to trouble you more and more. Let us wake up from our self-imposed spiritual snooze. We are commanded to repent. We are commanded by God to "have a different mind". Be obedient and no longer allow your mind to be conformed to this world.
Open your eyes to the opportunistic self-serving behaviour of actors who are not feeding you with anything approaching wisdom. Flee from their foolish food. Be wise and bathe your toes instead in the soothing waters of God's Word and you'll begin to acknowledge first in your head, and if you truly persevere also in your heart, that true repentance involves a change of mind toward God, acknowledging Him both as offended Creator and redeeming, loving Saviour. Rest your forlorn-looking feet daily in the tender, soothing waters of wisdom and pray rejoicing to Your righteous Teacher.
Don't trust for your daily bread the teaching voice of television; for it grows inch by inch to resemble the same spirit that was in Goliath. Teach us, Our treasure above all treasures, that faith in Jesus Christ is essential for salvation. Limping neighbor, what have you got to lose? Ballerinas with bruised and battered toes, repentance and faith go together. Jesus said, less a person repents, he will perish, But He also said and is still saying to us: "Whosoever believes in [me] should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). Furnish us with true faith, Father of faith, so that our grateful hearts can sing a song of love to Jesus Christ whilst pirouetting for increased purity to the glory of Thy name. Amen.
