@D_B_Harrison @WWUTTguy Also, Psalm 19:13 -
"Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me!"
Why do I need to ask him to do this? Because outside of his grace, ***there is no sin I'm immune to***.
“God without Christ brings not eternal life, and Christ, if he were not sent of God, would not bring eternal life to us; but knowing God in Christ Jesus is eternal life.”
~Spurgeon
Come to Jesus as you are. Some of us had to crawl, others ran. I promise you, He came to save people like you and me. (Luke 5:32) With trauma, addiction, fear, abandonment, depression, hopelessness, poor, miserable, broken, lost… Once you do come to Him, He will change you forever. Maybe you think you’re born this way but, God calls us to be born again (John 3:3) Repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ! He takes wretched sinners and transforms them into trophies of His Amazing Grace. “And such were some of you..” 1 Corinthians 6:11 📷📷📷
Come to Him with your identity confusion.
Come to Him with your sexual brokenness.
Come to Him with your bitterness and heartbreak.
Come to Him with your emptiness and search for love.
Come to Him with your rejection and desires to be accepted.
Come to Him with your insecurities and shame.
Come to Him with the molest and abuse.
Come to Him with the trauma and mental illness.
(Matthew 11:28-30)
@BeccaJonesTeach I don't pretend to understand what you're going through (Prov. 14:10), but we know someone who does. May he continue to reveal himself to you as the God of Psalm 68:5!!!
Western society has scaled economic mobility like no other society in the history of human civilisation. We have built societies where large proportions of ex-slaves, peasants, women, eunuchs have been empowered with significant opportunity to overcome their hardships.
We have a comprehensive human rights charter that gives us a very broad standard by which to aim, and we have unparalleled religious freedom compared to anywhere in the Middle East or Africa.
Life isn't perfect in the West, but it has created so much more liberty for more people than anywhere else in the history of humanity.
Yet all the loudest Westerners do is complain about how oppressed they are.
“But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” Luke 6:27-28, 36
Mercy triumphs over judgement 🦁🐑
#BeTheChange