Thoughts for another day

May 5, 2014.

Today's verse:  Col. 1:12. Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God’s holy people) in the Light. (Amplified Bible – copy. ack.)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

Giving thanks to God must be in the DNA of our beings for God has been merciful to us and is unmindful of our sins which we commit and grieve Him so terribly with.  God gave us His only Son Jesus to redeem us from our sins and in that subjected Him to the most cruel treatment of those days. He put on Him our hideous and dreadful sins, crushing Jesus under them and I can see Jesus’ eyes turned up toward heaven in that pitiful cry, ‘My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?’ 

In this God proved His love for us says St Paul, that even while we were sinners, He sent His Son down to die for us who were most ingrate and repugnant.  Why did God do it, is a question I ask of Him often telling Him, ‘Lord, see how sinful I am, with sin loaded all over me; my heart scarred to a huge blot because of sin.’  Then I seem to hear Him in my heart say, ‘I love you My Son and whatever is needed to be done to bring you back, I will do!’  Now imagine this, He, God Most High, tells me He is willing to do all that’s needed to befriend a miserable and gruesome wretch like me!

As I move on in my life, and I read the Scripture above, I remember to give thanks to My Father in heaven who has made us fit to share the inheritance of the saints.  He has put a halo around us and in that halo is clearly written this warning to our enemies, ‘This is My child, keep off!’  Indeed, a deep sense of gratitude fills my being for I know, My God is for me and then who can be against me?  Who can ever, ever distress me when the cloak of His creamy love is around me and all that is mine?  I bow to Him my friend as you too do and in humble gratefulness tell Him, ‘As much as heaven’s real and I am real my Father…THANK YOU.’