Aug. 13,2014
WHY US LORD?
looking over our lives there has been a radical change that has taken place if you are a Child of God, and it is by the grace of God that we came out of it with eyes wide open. And with most of us having no physical signs that we had been in a war zone. And as we look back over our life, there have been so many lives lost of those we have loved or been acquainted with.
And I wonder today why did God give us that Damascus Road experience as we set out on this journey He placed us on. As I focus on my past and future, maybe our God just saw in us a star that would shine anywhere, or at anytime that He wanted us to. Paul, had been a Pharisee. He considered himself the most zealous, rigorous and careful of all Pharisees, but God choose and used Paul because He knew Paul was capable of remaining a faithful servant that would ENDURE no matter what situation or circumstances he might find himself in, even if that meant his life ending at the guillotine.
Paul tells us in Phil. 1:21 (NKJV) For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.“ Acts 9:15 tells us that The Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel. When you read Paul’s letters, you realize God knew, because He is a Omniscience God all knowing.
Consistent with this, He knew that Paul could be all things to all people. Paul says in Phil. 3:7-8 (NKJV) But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of 
Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ.”
My friends can God say the same about us? They are my chosen instruments they will proclaim My name to the world and endure through their faith in Me to the end. Psalm 139:1-24 -41 (KJV) tells us “O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.” But “Like a grapevine branch, we are not always producing fruit in our life. That would be unnatural, for a significant portion of a grapevine’s life is nothing but a dry, twisted stick, and fruitless with no benefit to anyone.
It is even useless for shade, worthless as timber, to all appearances it is only fit to be ripped from the ground, thrown in a heap and burned.” “Yet those barren times are as 
vital in the life of the vine, as the season itself”. “If spring could tip-toe passed nature without stirring it from its winter slumber; if the sun could slip through the sky without dispelling the night; if rain could fall to the ground without bringing life to the desert, only then should you fear the dry and lean times, but because of God’s grace, for everything there is a season.”(Grantley Morris)
Paul tell’s us in Ephesians 2:4-9 “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved, and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Remember the forces of evil looks back over our life and accuses each of God’s chosen of all of our mistakes and tells us we have gone to far to be saved. But my Savior starts at Calvary, and takes us through the trials and tribulation of this life, and places us in His loving wings, and guides and protects each of us daily. All the way to his soon appearing where He has prepared A banquet table for all of the redeemed.
So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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