May we be the song
bird of praise
that flies high
above earth’s
trials and tears
singing praises
to our Creator
for our God
ordains our
earthly journey
so that we look
more like the Savior
and less like the world.

Christ’s created robes of beauty
and light are revealed and created
daily as the sunrise and sunset’s
majestically rise and fall draped in
gold’s, purple’s indigo’s and red’s.

May we in our hearts paint a
masterpiece of magnificent,
elaborate praise to our ineffable
God where Christ is the very
focal point of our souls and all
else is on the periphery of our
cross bought, love wrought
resurrected, transformed lives.

If the gospel
does not help
us to love more,
where is the gospel
in our everyday lives?

I saw them. I mean I really saw them
in all their sin wounds, and needs
and judged them unmercifully
because my insecurity immaturity,
and personal choice was to judge
them and not to love them and offer
them the mercy, love, and lavish grace
that our Savior has given to me
time after time after time.

And so our Savior weeps and pursues
them and finds them despite my pride,
arrogance and un-crucified ways.

Yet because of our Savior’s lavish grace
loves us despite our un-sanctified ways.
And if you listen closely you can hear Him
lovingly say,Come up higher Child of Grace.

I saw them.I mean I really saw them
in all their sin, wounds, and needs
because of the Savior who dwells
within me who saw me and pursued me
in spite of my sinful estate.I saw them
and loved them because Christ has loved
me unconditionally time after time after time.
And Christ in me pursued them with the new birth.
And all of Heaven rejoiced because of one sinner
that was brought into the Kingdom through the
power of the Cross through the power of love
and grace from the source of all sources,our
crucified and risen Lord, Jesus Christ.

And because of our Savior’s lavish love
beckons us whether we are living in the spirit
or struggling in the flesh to come up higher
and victoriously stand where we have been placed
so we can value others with Christ’s victorious
gentle compassionate love, mercy and grace.

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Romans 8:31 (KJV)

The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

Psalms 118:6 (KJV)

For the
Christian,
there is
always
perpetual
victory.
For God
is always
on our side!

But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.

Luke 8:8 (KJV)

But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.

Luke 8:15 (KJV)

Father for the sake of your precious kingdom,
may we as your redeemed, royal heirs,with new
creation good and noble hearts, be known
as those whose lives are grounded on the
good and solid ground of Jesus Christ alone!

And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

II Kings 6:17 (KJV)

Precious Father,
Savior and
gentle dove
open our
eyes that
we may truly
behold the
ineffable
beauty,
majesty,
power,
glory,
and love
that truly
surrounds us
day by day!

What if every day
we are blessed with
breath of life,
we live with the
expectant Christ
given hope that
God in us will do
the impossible?
For we know that
through Christ we
can move mountains!
What if?

What if because
of the gift of our
Christ given faith
and belief the
impossible
starts to happen?
For we know that
through Christ we
can move mountains!
What if?

What if we
believe and
live with the
Christ filled,
faith given,
mountainous
expectancy of
impossibilities?
What if?

In Christ
new heart,
new soul,
new mind,
new life,
new sunrise,
new sunset,
new door,
new start,
new path,
new creation
of abundant life
from all that is
old and full
of sin and self
to all that is new
and full of white
as snow forgiveness

In Christ,
new heart,
new soul,
new mind,
new life,
new sunrise,
new sunset,
new door,
new start,
new path,
new creation
of abundant life!

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 61:10 (ESV)

The royal
gemstone
encrusted
robes of salvation
exquisitely and
eternally transforms
us from sinner
to new creation.