Poem by Jon Elvrum
Here we go again! Blessings. Lord, I have read stories of those who met you Blind no vision, perhaps blurred vision seeing figures more like trees than men. There are so many stories... Lord, I have read stories of those who encountered You who were changed forever from unclean to clean; from once deaf to now hearing from hemorrhaging to wholly restored by Your holy restoration, Lord, I have read stories. I have wondered how one can read all the stories stories of forgiveness of healing of correction and re-direction of penitence and remorse, stories so many stories, stories of sinners confronting their sin through their encounter with You sinners being changed in a radical, life-altering moment. There are so many stories told with such passionste candor such calm assurance sustained by the kind of absolute certainty which allows one to say to the powerful skeptics of their day "I only know that I was blind, but now I see!" Or, "I knew if I could touch even the hem of His robe that I would be healed." There are so many stories... With so many stories stories from Scripture with so many examples examples from old to new history, so many real life experiences about miraculous healings, of life and lives transformed; with all we know, by what we have read, what we have heard,from those we know or have known of... How can we doubt any longer? What "new" news are we awaiting? If you still doubt all this, all this gathered information, if you still wonder what to do? Then turn today turn to the one who saves to the only one who elected to die for you chose to offer himself as earnest payment for all the sins for all the evil and selfish acts ever committed even those particular and special ones all those done by you. His gift has been freely given. One time for all of time. Take the time to put your heart into a place of penitential preparation Confess that you are a sinner Say aloud, you are sorry for your sins, sorry you have been so long away, say that today, you want Him to come to make your life into a new life a changed and corrected life Declare all this in the name of the One the One who is able the only One who died to save you the only One who lives to see that you receive the gift He gave Why do you hesitate? Come to the water, He said. Drink all you will. Come to the water. "Freely, freely, you have received, Freely, freely give. Go in His name and because you beliehve, others will know that He lives." Chorus from a Christian song of praise. Comments are closed.
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May 2020
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