To live is Christ!


To live is Christ! 

The blog is a little different in style tonight.  Lighthearted and playful.  I'm really having fun painting again! I really think that one day Heaven will be like this, lighthearted and full of JOY!  Jesus said, bring your burdens to me, when they are heavy.  He reminds us that His burdens are light and he can handle them much better than we can. We can so easily lose our way in this world with trials and tribulation, with sickness and poverty.  Bitterness creeps in like a thick forest of trees and you realize that you can't find your way out!  Before you know it, we are lost in emotion, we feel no more joy!  Where is the Love?  Our hearts have slowly lost the hope that we so desperately try to hold on to.  We all have somehow lost our way!   

"All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all."  Isaiah 53:6  

"For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls."  I Peter 2:25   By His stripes we are healed! 

Unfortunately, many of us keep walking further and further into the woods, until there is no light at all.  In the passage of Luke it tells the story of the Shepard, how if one, just one is found, what a JOY! What rejoicing in Heaven!  Be sure to read Heart Homework!  It's so refreshing to the soul! 

God tells us to live with expectant JOY and to love Him with all your heart and soul and to love others as you love yourself.  And above all, the secret to a merry heart, is the truth of His word!  It will set you free to know how much He really does love YOU!!

There is LIFE in the Lamb of God! 

Let it be Jesus! 

Heart Homework: Luke 15:4-7

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