Create In Me A Clean Heart O God!

Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Psalm 51:10(NASB)

The hardest thing to do in today's political climate is ask the Lord to do a miracle in me. We need to remember not to allow hate to creep into our hearts for the corruptness of the other side. We need to remember when confronted with those who want to cause great strife that we are called to a higher standard. It truly is the hardest thing to do!

The corrupted gene-pool from our first sinning parents has been passed down the generations of humankind for six-thousand long years, resulting in defilement, disease, and death. No one is exempt from the death-sentence of sin, for ALL have sinned. ALL have fallen short of God's glory and ALL need a Saviour.

Trying to mend the old creation in Adam is man's futile pursuit, but God will have no dealings with the sordid deeds of sinful man, nor the scarlet sin-nature that permeates every cell of our fallen souls. We were conceived by sinful parents and were born dead in trespasses and sins. The legacy of everyone is that we were born in sin, and at enmity with God.

The essence of pure humanity was breathed into the first Adam by the Lord God Almighty, and man became a living being. God saw all He had made was very good. But Adam's whole nature became twisted and perverted due to sin and death, which entered into the equation of the entire gene-pool of humanity.

Although created in God's image, the progeny of Adam are all begotten in his fallen state, which is riddled with sin and which ends in death. As part of the human race, we are imputed with Adam's sin. Having been born into the human race, we have inherited a fallen sin nature from our fathers. Although we know what is good - we are incapable of doing good in our own strength, and although we know what is evil, we are incapable of avoiding it.

It is only by the redeeming blood of the second Man, (the last-Adam), that we can be washed clean by the cleansing power of the pure water of God's Word. It is only through saving faith in the gospel of Christ that man can be made a new creature and be raised into newness of life.

It is only by trusting in the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus that we can be reborn as a new-creation in Him, with a clean heart. It is only by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and our identification with HIM that we can be declared righteous by God and have the righteousness of Christ imputed to us.

It was the heart-cry of David to have his heart washed clean of sin, for he recognised the stained condition of his fallen soul. 'Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me." he cried out. "Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy Holy Spirit from me."

David had sinned against the Lord for his own selfish gain and to gratify his own inner lusts. Because of his sin, David's delightful fellowship with God had been severed. His joy in the Lord had been lost and his heart-conscience was deeply convicted. David was acutely aware of the evil he had done. He became increasingly conscious of his rebellious actions... for the sins he committed were ever before his eyes. 

Although the bitter fruit of his sin-nature was murder and adultery, David realised that his ungodly acts were sins against the Lord, which had deeply grieved the Spirit of God. "Against You Lord, and You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight", was David's bitter lament.

David knew the wrong he was committing when he lusted after another man's wife and stained his hands with her husband's blood, in an attempt to hide his adultery. David's soul had been blackened with sin and although he refused to immediately acknowledge his wrongdoing before God, his conscience refused to allow him to forget, until he cried out to God - admitting his sin and praying for a purified heart and a right spirit within.

Unlike David and other Old Testament saints, we never need fear that the Holy Spirit will depart from us, for since the cross He takes up permanent residence within each born-again believer. However, like David, we can resist the Spirit, quench the Spirit or even grieve the Spirit of God, which not only causes our fellowship with the Father to be broken but can suppress our joy and steal the perfect peace of God within.

But like David, if we confess our sin God is faithful and just to forgive us our sin, purify our heart, renew a steadfast spirit within and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Like David... our insatiable cry should be, purify my heart O Lord. Cleanse me from my sin. Create in me a clean heart. Restore to me the joy of my salvation and renew a godly spirit within me.

May we choose the good and eschew the evil so that our new, born-again-life in Christ (our new-nature in Him) may be increasingly conformed into the image and likeness of the lovely Lord Jesus - until it is no longer I that live (my old sin-nature in Adam) but Christ (the new-life I have in Him) that lives in me - ever prompting me towards Christ-likeness.

My Prayer

Thank You, Father, that in Your wisdom You do not renew and restore the old fallen sin-nature in Adam, but transform the new, born-again life I received, through faith in Christ. Thank You for the lessons we can learn from biblical saints like David, who was cleansed of his sin, when he confessed his faults and cried out to You. Thank You for the indwelling ministry of the Holy Spirit, and I pray that You would point out all the areas in my life that grieve You or quench Your ongoing work within. Create in ME a clean heart I pray and renew a steadfast spirit within me... and may Christ be seen in me as I submit to Your Spirit's leading and do only those things I hear from Him. In Christ's name, I pray, AMEN.

Knowing Jesus is the beginning of wisdom!

Your brother in Christ,

Ted

I HAVE REDEEMED YOU!

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins are like mist;

return to me, for I have redeemed you.

 Isaiah 44:22

Pay attention to THE INSTRUCTIVE PICTURE: Our sins are like a cloud. As clouds appear in many shapes and shades, so do our transgressions. As clouds obscure the light of the sun and darken the landscape below, so do our sins hide from us the light of Jehovah's face and cause us to sit in the shadow of death. They are earthborn things and arise from the miry places of our lives; and when they collect and their measure is full, they threaten us with storm and tempest. Sadly, unlike clouds, our sins yield us no genial showers but rather threaten to deluge us with a fiery flood of destruction. How can it be fair weather when the dark clouds of sin remain within our souls?

Let our happy gaze ponder THE NOTABLE ACT of divine mercy—"blotted out." God Himself appears upon the scene and in divine generosity, instead of manifesting His anger, reveals His grace. He at once and forever effectually removes the mischief, not by blowing away the cloud, but by blotting it out from existence once and for all. Against the justified man no sin remains; the great transaction of the cross has eternally removed his transgressions from him. On Calvary's summit the great deed, by which the sin of all the chosen was forever put away, was completely and effectually performed.

Practically let us obey THE GRACIOUS COMMAND: "Return to me." Why should pardoned sinners live at a distance from their God? If all of our sins have been forgiven, let no legal fear hold us back from the boldest access to our Lord. Let backslidings be bemoaned, but let us not persevere in them. Let us, in the power of the Holy Spirit, work strenuously to return to intimate communion with the Lord. O Lord, restore us now, tonight!

The beginning of WISDOM is KNOWING JESUS!

Ted

the above by Truth For Life!

What Fear Are You Facing Right Now?

You drew near when I called on You; You said, "Do not fear!"

Lamentations 3:57(NASB)

How powerful, comforting and heart-warning are these words written by Jeremiah, the weeping prophet of Israel, who grieved over the shocking demise of Jerusalem and lamented over the ruins of David's golden city. "You drew near when I called on You," Jeremiah declared. "You said, "Do not fear - Do not be afraid!"

The invisible, omnipresent God is never far from any one of us, but His presence ofttimes seems distant, during times of deep distress and anguish of heart. But God in His wisdom often waits for His distressed children to recognise that their deepest heart-need is the Lord Himself, and that their severe lack, can only be satisfied in Him - as they come to Him in childlike dependence and trusting faith.

God in His grace often uses those times of darkness and distress to teach us important lessons of His grace, so that as we call out to Him for help and strength, we discover Him to be our great Support, our merciful Provider, the Rock on which we stand and our holy, heavenly Comforter.

God knows that His strength is made perfect in our weakness. He knows that in our helpless state, His grace is more than sufficient for the need of the hour, for His strength is perfected in our insufficiency. God knows that His grace is more than adequate to meet all our needs, according to His riches in glory... and He wants us to know this truth and to reckon it as fact, in the inner recesses of our being.

Often, in His great wisdom, He will bring us to the end of ourselves, so that we discover that He alone is our refuge and strength. Over and again, in His infinite grace and everlasting love, we find Him to be our ever-present Helper in difficult days and times of trouble.

Though God, at times, may wait for us to call out to Him, He is neither slow to hear the cries of the disconsolate soul - nor is He slack in responding to the pleading cries of the breaking heart - for the very day that Jeremiah called out to the Lord for help, was the very time the Lord responded with those great words of comfort...from the God of all comforts - "Fear Not - I will be with you, to help you, and deliver you"

Jeremiah called out to the Lord on many occasions. His prophetic word was ridiculed, his prophetic writings were burned. He was flung into a deep, dry, dirty well and he watched the beloved city of David being ransacked by the marauding Babylonians, and the holy Temple of God being desecrated and burned with fire.

But when Jeremiah cried out to the Lord... the Lord heard his cry. When waters flooded over his head, and he thought he was going to die... the Lord came to his rescue. When Jeremiah called on the name of Yahweh, from the depths of the pit, and cried to God for relief and consolation... God did not ignore his pleading call for relief, and Jeremiah was able to confess.."You drew near when I called on You.. You said, "Do not fear!"

Jeremiah was helpless and there was no one to turn to, except the Lord. But God brought him to the place of helplessness, so that he would cry out to HIM, and the Lord would hear and answer. And Jeremiah's heart was encouraged and his faith was strengthened.

The prayer of helplessness is the simple sigh of the living soul, which is breathed into the heart of the living God. The whispered plea of dependent helplessness, rejoices the heart of God, and His immediate response is, fear not, my child, I created you and purchased you - I died for you and I love you.

When the eyes of the heart cling to the Lord in deep distress and childlike dependence, our muted voice is translated into an inner groan of the soul, and God draws near... and He hears and responds to every heart-cry of His children, with His gracious words of comfort - FEAR NOT.

My Prayer

Help me Lord, in my deep distress, in Jesus' name, AMEN.
"Fear Not - I will be with you, to help you, and deliver you"

The beginning of wisdom is KNOWING JESUS!

Your brother in Christ,

Ted

My Heart's Cry!

Because you are sons(and daughters), God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"

Galatians 4:6(NASB)

What a wonder of divine love and grace that we, who were once at enmity with God, have been so favoured by the Father, that we should be called 'sons', "and because we are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"

The 'birth certificate' that confirms this amazing truth is the Person of the Holy Spirit, living in the heart of all who believe. It is He Who bears inner witness that we are sons of God. It is the Holy Spirit of God's own dear Son, Who has been sent into our heart, Who communes with us and cries affectionately.. Abba! Father!,

The privilege of the permanently, indwelling Holy Spirit began at Pentecost. He takes up residence in the body of every born-again believer, the moment he trusts in Christ. His presence within our heart, is both the guarantee and proof that we have been made 'sons of God' and joint-heirs with Christ.

Paul had been explaining to the Galatians... that following the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, the status of believers changed from that of an underage child, with a promise of a future inheritance... to a mature son, who has received his inheritance from his father - and the Holy Spirit has been sent into our heart, as the confirmation of this glorious truth.

Before the cross, believers were looking forward with expectation to a promise that was yet to come. The Law that governed their lives was etched on stone tablets, that only permitted a distant, external relationship with God, which was carried out in an earthly Temple, through a human mediator - either a prophet or priest appointed by God.

Following Christ's ascension into heaven, it is grace that governs our lives. It is not the Law that was written on stone, that determines how we should live. It is the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus that presides in our hearts. It is the indwelling Spirit of His Son in our heart Who communes with us and guides us into all truth. 

Paul describes those living under the Law as underage children, who had not yet achieved their maturity nor received their promised inheritance. This included all pre-cross believers, like Elijah, Daniel, Isaiah, and John the Baptist. However, those who are living under grace have a new, living, ongoing and intimate relationship with the Father, through the indwelling Spirit. This includes post-cross believers like Peter, James, and John - it includes Christians like you and me.  The proof of sonship is the permanently, indwelling Holy Spirit of Christ - without Whom we would tremble as we approach the Father, but Who cries in our heart - Abba, Father.

While pre-cross believers lived under the Mosaic Law, which governed their external relationship with the Father and placed many limitations on their relationship with Him... post-cross Christians are led by the indwelling Spirit. We are governed by a higher law - a heavenly Law - a limitless law - the Spirit’s Law of life in Christ Jesus, which set us all free from the limited law of sin and of death, that condemns every sinner. We are motivated by a law that is not limited by the flesh but one that is empowered by the Spirit of God, in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

What incredible assurance to know that we are accepted by God - in Christ and made sons, through the presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit. He guides us into all truth through His word and empowers us with His sufficient strength. What amazing love that He should pour out the wrath that we so justly deserve upon His dearly Beloved Son. He was despised, rejected and cruelly crucified, on our account. He died to satisfy God's righteous justice. His blood paid the price for sin, so that we who believe, could be elevated into a position of son-ship and be awarded joint heir-ship with Christ - by grace through faith.

Though once children of wrath and disobedience, all who have trusted Christ for Salvation have been positioned in Him, as children of His love. And by His grace, we have been given the additional gift, and guarantee, of God's indwelling Holy Spirit, Who took up permanent residence within our hearts, the moment that we trusted in Christ for Salvation.

No name or title for the eternal, almighty Creator and Sustainer of heaven and earth, could be more profoundly personal nor intensely intimate than that of, Abba - dearly loved Father. Such language of sweet endearment is reserved for the closest of unions, and such was the life experience of the Lord Jesus.. and He is our pattern for life. He is our example to follow.

Throughout His earthly life, Jesus showed us how to maintain close, adult fellowship with the Father, and throughout our earthly walk we are to walk as Christ walked and to live as Christ lived - in sweet, mature communion, with Abba, our dearly loved Father.

Jesus set aside His glory for a season, and through humble, prayerful obedience, was enlivened, empowered and animated by the same Holy Spirit of the Father, Who dwells in us. Throughout His life, Jesus only did what He saw His Father doing and only said what His Father told Him - and we are to pattern our life on His life. Like Him, we will be strengthened and enlivened through His Spirit through the same, humble, prayerful obedience.

It is not trying to copy what Jesus did that gives us this intimacy, but living as Christ lived. It is living in mature, intimate fellowship with the Father. For it is as we maintain spirit to Spirit communion - the human spirit with Christ's Spirit - through the guidance of the indwelling Holy Spirit, that our hearts can whisper in steadfast prayer, joyful praise and intimate communion - Abba, my Father.

Addendum:

The world is divided and divisive because Satan is still the prince and power of the air. Still we have a hope that burns within us because God the Son now has the keys to death and hell! We are no longer condemned in Christ the Bible says, not because we are so wonderful-we all have bad days, but because of HIM! What HE accomplished on that cross has given us not only hope but a PROMISE of redemption. We are forever sealed by the Holy Spirit of God unto the Day of Redemption. Believer, trust in what your spirit cries out for that we can say "Abba, Father" with an honest voice that awaits eternity with Him!

My Prayer

Abba, my loving Father, I realize I am standing on the holiest of ground. Thank You for doing such great things for me. I desire to develop the depth of fellowship with You that is demonstrated through the life of Jesus, and pray that through the power of Your indwelling Holy Spirit, my human spirit and soul will submit in humble obedience to His guidance - so that my inner spirit may commune with You, in godly intimacy... through Your Holy Spirit, this I ask in Jesus' name. AMEN.

Knowing Jesus is the beginning of wisdom!

See you next blog,

Ted

HE Will Establish You

One day you wake up in agony...not because of anything physically painful. You are stymied, not because of anything that has happened to your family, your job, or anything surrounding you. You can't sleep...why? What is wrong with me you ask? Suddenly just about everything you have ever done wrong comes before you like a movie. No, you're not dying you are wondering why God ever chose you to be his child! I can't possibly be a Christian I'm still sinning...I can't think of a day that goes by that I don't do, say, or think something I know is wrong according to His word...

But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.

2 Thessalonians 3:3(NASB)

How often the 'BUTS' of the Bible stand in stark contrast between 1) the faithfulness of God and His great goodness, and 2) the trite unbelief of His children and their sinfulness. We praise God for the many, eternal 'BUTs' in the Bible. And we rejoice for the glorious 'BUT' in this verse, where we read: BUT the Lord is faithful, Who shall establish you, and guard you from the evil one. 

Paul had just been teaching about the revealing of the coming man of lawlessness and the deception that was to be poured out on humankind. He had reminded them that this evil person would oppose all that is good and would exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship - even to entering God’s sanctuary and proclaiming himself to be God.

It was necessary for Paul to teach these believers that lawlessness was already in the world and that the enemy of our soul seeks our ruination. BUT he joyfully reminds us that God is greater. GOD is faithful, and He has promised to establish us in the faith and guard us against the evil one.

We serve a good and faithful God, Who has promised to work His good work in the lives of all His children and establish each one in every good work and word. But we must be aware that we have a powerful enemy, who desires our downfall and seeks to shipwreck our faith. No wonder Paul was keen to remind this little group of believers that God is faithful to guard us against the evil one... that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan.

Earlier in the chapter, Paul had spoken of the mystery of lawlessness, which was already at work in the world, in those early days of the Church. He had also taught about the restraining power that was suppressing wickedness and keeping evil from reaching its fullness, and Paul encouraged his listeners to hold fast in their faith and stand firm in the truth of the gospel, because the days are evil. We all need to understand that humanity's wickedness and the wiles of Satan will continue to batter the saints OF God throughout this world - until Christ comes to set up His kingdom and puts all enemies under His feet. 

Humankind cannot be trusted, for man is disposed towards satanic perverseness and indifference to God. The faithfulness of God streams throughout the pages of Scripture, as seen in His many acts of mercy; His multitudinous promises of grace; His wonderful words of warning and His amazing gift of salvation. Conversely, the infidelity of man towards his Maker is a warning bell that tolls throughout scripture. It is a blaring gong that has resounded down through time, which contrasts the goodness of God with the perversity of man.

Man may be faithless and false - BUT God is faithful despite our inconsistencies. And He expands this promise of grace even further, for the Lord pledged to strengthen and establish His children in the truth of His Word - for we are HIS. In His grace, HE works in us and through us, for His good purpose. God knew us before the foundation of the world. He knows the number of hairs on our head and keeps our tears in His bottle.

And those whom God predestined, called and chose, He undertakes to justify and to sanctify and to glorify. And He is faithful to do everything that He has said, for our dependable God is Faithful and True. Yet, once again, this amazing 'BUT' subdivides into a further token of His love towards us, for He vows to keep His children from the evil of sin and the ploys of the evil one, who seeks to sift us as wheat and to pollute our witness.

Sin and death and Satan's snares have no power over us, for the enemy was defeated at Calvary and God will not allow us to be tested above that which we are able to bear - but will provide us with an escape route, from all the worldly principles and fleshly practices that are dangled before us as bait, to draw us back into the evil, world system.

God knows our weakness, and He understands that our faith may fail, BUT the Lord is faithful, Who shall establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

My Prayer

Dear heavenly Father, thank You for Your faithful promises.. to strengthen, establish and protect me, even when my faith falters and I prove faithless and false to You. Keep me ever mindful of this truth and guide me in the choices I must make today. Use me as an instrument of Your grace and keep me from all evil, so that I may grow in grace and in a knowledge of You, and in my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ .. in Whose name I pray, AMEN.

If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, remember this...we are always a work under construction. Some have gone further with God than others but His love and mercy endures long, but we must be open to change. You're gonna be fine, rest in the Lord and trust in his ability to establish you in your faith!

Knowing Jesus is the beginning of wisdom!

See you next blog,

Ted

Do You Allow God To Dwell In You?

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

1 John 4:16(KJV)

This is the verse of all verses that encapsulates the very essence of God and what He has done for us; what He is doing and what He will continue to do in and through all who believe in the name of the only begotten Son of God and place their trust in Him.

As Christians we are participators in the love of the Father, through the witness of the Spirit of Love, Who has been given by the Father of Love to reveal the Son of His Love. This glorious truth and wonderful reassurance binds our heart to God's eternal heart of love, for we have known and believed the great love that God hath to us. We know, and we believe that the truth and knowledge of God's Love is simply a matter of faith, which pleases the loving heart of our gracious God of Love.

It was the fiery 'son of thunder' who in his twilight years penned the precious words in this verse: God is Love, and it was the same beloved disciple who increasingly discovered the amazing truth that: God is Love - as did the dynamic apostle Paul who disclosed that love is the greatest of all the gifts and love is the greatest fruit of the Spirit - for the fruit of the Spirit is grounded in LOVE.

The love of God reaches into every aspect of our lives and touches every 'jot and tittle' of our need. Behind the black clouds of sin, shines the Son of redeeming love. Enshrouded beneath the dreary fog of hopelessness is hidden our loving Provider. Submerged beneath the woes and troubles that weary our souls and swamp our minds is the everlasting Spirit of love.

Hidden in the dusty desert of despair we are given streaming rivers of living water that are brimming to overflowing with the Love of God, and Jesus invites all to come and drink deeply of His refreshing Love.

Perhaps this verse, which so simply states that God Is Love, encapsulates the very essence of God and should be increasingly taken to heart, knowing that those that rest; remain; abide and dwell in His love, by keeping their minds on Jesus, are assured that the Love of God will rest; remain; abide and dwell in their hearts - encouraging; providing; upholding; leading; refreshing; comforting and supporting - for God Is Love.

My Prayer

Loving Father I praise You for Your heart of love that is open towards me and for the many ways that You shower Your love into my life. Keep me ever mindful of Your love and use me to stream Your gracious love through my life and out to the weary and thirsty souls that You place in my path, in Christ's name I pray. Remind me that I live in a fallen world and Satan is still the prince and power of the air and worst of all, bad things happen in this fallen world. Nevertheless, you have conquered death and hell and we now have an abode with You for eternity. This body is passing away daily and death awaits us but You, Almighty God, have shown your love toward us through Jesus Christ who sits at the right hand of the Father in POWER! AMEN.

Knowing Jesus is the beginning of wisdom!

See you next blog,

Ted

So You Need Eye-Witnesses Before You Will Believe?

Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

Matthew 27:54(KJV)

It was the centurion, who cried out, 'truly this was the Son of God', when he saw the earthquake, the darkness, and all that took place at Calvary, on that pivotal point in history. Surely the life of the centurion who uttered these earth-shattering words, by divine revelation, was never the same again. Surely, for all who can look to the Lord Jesus in His death and resurrection and declare, truly this is the Son of God - this is the Saviour of the world, life can never, ever be the same again.

No doubt this man was witness to the reviling actions of the Jews and the distress of the women, as Christ was led as a lamb to the slaughter. No doubt he also heard the precious pardon awarded to the dying thief; the words of grace offered to His mother; His anguished cry when He took the full weight of the world's sin upon His sinless shoulders and surely this same centurion heard Christ's triumphant proclamation of His forever finished work - IT IS FINISHED - Tetelestai.

What a unique catalogue of events took place in that brief moment of time. Mockers scorned, women wept and the whole heavenly host gazed on in stunned silence and awestruck wonder, as the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of the Father, fulfilled the final letter-of-the-Law to satisfy the holy requirements of a thrice-holy God.

The earth was shaken to its very foundation, the sun was blackened as thick darkness shrouded the bloody scene of 'life-giving death'. The veil of the temple was torn through, from top to bottom, and the Son of God, Who had drained the bitter cup to its dregs, placed Himself into His Father's keeping, willingly giving up His life for all.

This centurion had no doubt been an eye-witness to scores of crucifixions, for this was the long, slow and painful death that had been introduced by Rome to ensure that the convicted criminal, under Roman jurisdiction, suffered the most excruciating agony in payment for their wicked deeds.

This man had no doubt been present at the cruel beating of Christ and witnessed the point when the sun was darkened for three hours and a great and mighty earthquake announced heaven's verdict on the sinful actions of sinful man - as the wrath of God was poured out on the sinless Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world.

Surely the life of that Centurion, who was witness to Christ's redemptive payment for his sin, and the sins of every member of the fallen human race - including your sin and mine, was never the same after he watched Jesus on the cross, and witnessed the earthquake, the darkness and the many things that were done to our Lord.

And so, an unnamed centurion, who was simply carrying out his soldierly duty, who was an eye-witness to this unique happening on that decisive day in the history of humanity, was caused to announce in tones... that would reverberate down through the corridors of time: truly this was the Son of God.

Surely the life of the centurion who witnessed his Saviour dying on that Tree of crucifixion, and who uttered those earth-shattering words by divine revelation, was never, ever the same again. Truly this IS the Son of God.

My Prayer

Loving Father, as I reflect on the awesome scene that took place when the Lord Jesus suffered and died for me, I bless Your name for revealing to me the gospel of grace and for drawing me into Your family as Your child. It seems that in this day and age we need multiple witnesses to everything. We forget the Bible, your word to us, has multiple witnesses in the men and women who walked with Jesus. May I never become so 'familiar' with this scene that I forget its true significance. I worship before Your throne and praise Your holy name, for You truly are my most wonderful Saviour and I love You - in Jesus' name I pray, AMEN.

Knowing Jesus is the beginning of Wisdom!

See you next blog,

Ted