rambelings

This blog has sat dormant for awhile. Its been harder for me to blog lately. Life has gotten a bit busier. I have been in a place recently where life has been very routine. One of those seasons where I find myself doing the same things over and over again each day. In the midst of those places, I can easily become routine in my walk with the Lord. Sometimes it is as though the excitement of life is just gone. Routine sets in its course. I think there are seasons where life can become mechanical. They are not necessarily bad, they just happen.

And then, something happens and God lifts the shutters on my eyes and I realize that I have been missing Him all along. I read through 1 Peter this week and there was a verse that spoke so much truth to me. Verses 1:3-4 says

According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading".

I don't often realize that I am now a living hope and I have an eternal inheritance that will never be corrupted. So often I live my life not thinking on or remembering the promises of God. I am learning that who I am must come out of my identity in Christ. As a child of God, this is my new identity. I am no longer a wretched sinner. I am loved and forgiven by the King of all Kings.

It is so important to remember who we are. This is what separates us from the world. The fact that we know we are loved, forgiven, and set free from sin and that we don't have to be bound to please our flesh or man any longer. We are free to please Him.

If I do not remind myself of God's promises, then I am so easily swept into sin.
But thanks be to God for though we were dead in our sin He is rich in mercy.



JN