MY FRIENDS, WE’VE COME TO FAR FROM WHERE WE STARTED FROM, WE CAN’T TURN AROUND NOW!!

April 7, 2015

MY FRIENDS, WE’VE COME TO FAR FROM WHERE WE STARTED FROM, WE CAN’T TURN AROUND NOW!!

My friends let’s make it personal today because every now and then we have to look back and recognize where we were at a certain time in our life when sin abound on every level, when our theme song was what a friend we have in Satan! When he was our copilot forever taking us to the peak of the highest mountain and saying “All these things I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”

And just at the time when Satan put the auto pilot on, and we had gone into descent, headed for utter destruction, grace caught our falling soul and our Savior looked beyond our faults, while never forgetting the plea of someone who loved us dearly cry out so many times in the night “please save my child”

And today through it all as we travel on this journey God has placed us on, as we see the mountains that we will have to continue to climb and the battles we will have to continue to fight, we must remember my friends, no one said there wouldn’t be trials, no one said we wouldn’t fall, no one said that everything would go the way we would want it to go.

But when our back is against the wall and we fill all hope is gone, we have to just lift our head up to the sky and say Lord please help me to be strong because I can’t give up now. Yes my friends, we can’t give up now, because “we’ve come too far from where we started from and nobody told us the road would be smooth or easy.

In addition, I don’t believe the God we serve that gave His only begotten Son and a Son who gave it all for our Salvation on Calvary has brought us this far to turn His back on us.” Some African cultures will take individuals to be initiated into the woods and leave them there alone to face the danger and uncertainty of whether they’ll make it out alive.

And it is, as a child of God we are placed at times in situation and circumstances where we fill uncertain on whether we will finish this journey because the terrain is so rough, we wonder, if I am a child of God why am I going through this pain and suffering? why isn’t the road easier for His Children? But we’ve come too far my friends, we are at the threshold of the promise land, soon Gabriel will blow His trumpet.

Remember nobody told us the road would be easy Christ is our example, it was never easy for Him and I don’t believe the God we serve has brought us this far to turn His back on us.  So we must keep our focus in one direction and that is upward. Because we can be confident of this, that he who began a good work in [each of His children] will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” Phil 1;6 (NIV)

“Although our sins have merited condemnation, He does not condemn us. Year after year He has borne with our weakness and ignorance, with our ingratitude and waywardness. Notwithstanding our wanderings, our hardness of heart, our neglect of His Holy Word, His hand is stretched out still.

Grace is an attribute of God exercised toward undeserving human beings. We did not seek for it, but it was sent in search of us……He will take the prey from the mighty, He will deliver the captive, He will pluck the brand from the burning. He will lower the golden chain of His mercy to the lowest depths of human wretchedness, and lift up the debased soul contaminated with sin.” [which is His faithful who hold on and endure] (E. G. White Helping the Tempted pp 161)

So friends stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY