Good morning, and welcome to another joyful day in the Lord! I started a lengthy devotional on the Law and have just discarded it. I feel called to write a more joyful message this morning. The story of the Israelites and their often disobedient ways only serves to highlight our own difficulties in keeping the Law. I heard yesterday in one of the sermons that guilt, at least the guilt we should worry about, is not a feeling. Does that give you joy? It does for me. Worrying about the guilty feelings that come to us from past events plays right into the Devil's hands. Satan doesn't want joyful Christ-ones in this world. We are made new creatures in Christ Jesus! Leave behind the mud and muck of those guilty feelings in the knowledge that the real guilt, that of original sin, is forgiven in Christ. Turn a joyful face to the Lord and worship Him. Think about the joy of our Lord and know, believe, that you are forgiven. It does not matter what sins lurk in your past; we all have skeletons in the closets of our mind. Jesus tells us to give them to Him. The Accuser brings up the most hideous old skeleton from the depths of our past to show how evil we are. Jesus simply takes the skeleton, stamps it 'paid', and throws it into the fire. No ceremony, no mess, no disapproving looks, only a gift of freedom from our past sins. Feeling unworthy today? You are not! Jesus did not die for a goal that was not worth the cost. He died and rose again for something more precious to Him than anything, you and I! As the sun rises this morning, take your heart of joy and live in Christ!
Hallelujah for the day!
Bucky
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