YES GRACE IS FREE!

This morning as I was having the greatest time with God and I was worshipping in songs, prayers, bible study and so on. My heart and soul were engulfed with so much love for Him I could almost taste Him. The passion, the love, and the ache that I feel for His redeeming love for me made me want to scream from the top of my lungs how grateful I am for being under grace. The curse of my condition has been broken and I am allowed to go behind the veil to worship at His feet right there. What an honor? What love He feels for me and how much Christ must love His father to sacrifice it all for His glory.

I don’t know about you, but because I am under grace, all I want is to love Him just the same. Not because I am good or that I have more will power than any one of you. At the end of the day I am just scum. But, because I can truly say “because He lives I live.” I can truly say “it is not me living, but Christ lives in me.” YES GRACE IS FREE! But grace must be given room to work out God’s plan in our hearts and our lives for His glory.

If we allow Him to teach us what it means to worship Him with our lives, we understand that it is the fulfillment of what we were born for and we do not have to wait to go to heaven to start fulfilling it. – The beauty, the embrace, the love, the passion and wholeness can all be ours right now. Would you surrender your soul to let Him be everything He can be in your life? Let go of all regrets, what might have been, the pain, and all the wrong that has been done to us, go to Him in the now and be ready to go forward with Him.

Guys, I am having one of those days with God that was not planned at all. It all started yesterday when God convicted my heart for not being in the "NOW" enough to let the passion of His love and grace flows through me. As I examined my heart, I came to the conclusion that He was right. Without realizing it, I have been concerned with certain things in my life which caused me to neglect Him.

 I then made the decision to let go and stop giving Him my second best. All night I kept thinking how grateful I am because He did not let me keep going in the wrong way for too long. That is a work of His grace working within. So as I woke up this morning, I emptied myself of all that entangled and offered myself up to Him. I can tell I am going to spend most of the day in worship. I had to really pull myself away while the CD is playing in the background, to share with you. I have to go spend more time with the GREAT I AM!

In His Agape Love,

MJ 

Come Unto Me - Spurgeon

"Come unto Me!" Matthew 11:28 

The cry of the Christian Religion is the gentle word, "Come." The Jewish LAW harshly said, "Go, take heed unto your steps as to the path in which you shall walk. Break the commandments, and you shall perish; keep them, and you shall live." 

The LAW was a dispensation of terror, which drove men before it as with a scourge; the GOSPEL draws with bands of love. Jesus is the good Shepherd going before His sheep, bidding them follow Him, and ever leading them onwards with the sweet word, "Come." 

The LAW repels—the GOSPEL attracts. The LAW shows the distance which there is between God and man; the GOSPEL bridges that awful chasm, and brings the sinner across it. From the first moment of your spiritual life, until you are ushered into glory—the language of Christ to you will be, "Come, come unto Me!" 

As a mother puts out her finger to her little child and woos it to walk by saying, "Come," even so does Jesus. He will always be ahead of you, bidding you follow Him as the soldier follows his captain. He will always go before you to pave your way, and clear your path, and you shall hear His animating voice calling you after Him all through life. In the solemn hour of death, His sweet words with which He shall usher you into the Heavenly world shall be, "Come, you who are blessed of My Father!" 

Nay, further, this is not only Christ's cry to you—but, if you be a believer, this is your cry to Christ, "Come! Come!" You will be longing for His second advent; you will be saying, "Come quickly—even so come Lord Jesus!" You will be panting for nearer and closer communion with Him. As His voice to you is "Come," your response to Him will be, "Come, Lord, and abide with me! Come, and occupy alone the throne of my heart! Reign there without a rival, and consecrate me entirely to Your service!"

Turning From Attachment To Desire

So much of the journey forward involves a letting go of all that once brought us life. We turn away from the familiar abiding places of the heart, the false selves we have lived out, the strengths we have used to make a place for ourselves and all our false loves and we venture forth in our hearts to trace the steps of the One who said, “follow me” in a way,  it means that we stop pretending that life is better than it is, that we are happier than it is, that we are happier than we are, that the false selves we present to the world are really us. We respond to the Haunting, the wooing, the longing for another life. Pilgrim begins his adventure toward redemption with a twofold turning: a turning away from attachment and a turning toward desire. He wanted life and so he stuck his fingers in his ears and ran like a madman (“a fool,” to use Paul’s term) in search of it. The freedom of heart needed to journey comes in the form of detachment. As Gerald May writes in Addiction and Grace,

"Detachment is the word used in spiritual traditions to describe freedom of desire. Not freedom from desire, but freedom of desire…....An authentic spiritual understanding of detachment devalues neither desire nor the objects of desire.  Instead, it “aims at correcting one’s own anxious grasping in order to free oneself for committed relationship to God.” According to Meister Eckhart, detachment “enkindles the heart, awakens the spirit, stimulates our longings, and shows us where God is.”

With an awakened heart, we turn and face the road ahead knowing that no one can take the trip for us, nor can anyone plan our way.

Ransomed Heart Ministries By John Eldredge