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I am alone in the dark on the top of a mountain. Just the created facing The Creator. Lightning rages across the naked sky. Thunder crashes through my mind and vibrates my heart, though my hands cover my ears in fear. The wind claws at my face like a cornered animal, and brings trees plummeting to the ground.
Worse than what God is doing around me is the feeling that God knows what is inside of me. I have sin in my heart. I feel like it is a very bad time to be alone with The Living God. I catch my breath in fearful anticipation of His wrath and judgment. With each flash of lightening, and each cry of the pounding thunder, I think to myself that the time has surely come when God’s voice will resound among them and judge me for so easily forsaking Him. There is no escaping Yahweh!
I wait and wait, but the condemnation never comes. The wind dies down to a whisper, and the expanse of the sky grows hush, pregnant with quiet anticipation. Like the eye of a storm. By this time I am curled up into a tight little ball, looking out into the darkness through fingers that half cover my eyes. As if God might tiptoe through the silence and sneak up on me. I am very afraid.
Suddenly, through the night God does come, but instead of an icy blast, He speaks to me through a barely audible whisper. He calls me child, and this surprises me, for I have not been living like one of His children. He says to me with a hint of sadness in His voice.
“My child, why have you forsaken me?”
No anger here, just a question. I slowly lift my head in surprise as He continues.
“I still love you… More than anything. I died for you. I became your sin! I thought that we agreed that it was too heavy for you, and that I would carry it from now on. Why do you allow yourself to be burdened by this old yoke of slavery, and even increase its weight? You are my child, a slave of righteousness now. Come, empty yourself, and be filled up with my blood. Your sin is no longer yours to bear. I have earned the right to carry it by my sacrifice. All I ask is that you walk along beside me. I will do the hard work. Walk with me and drink of me; for I will satisfy.”
He touches my heart with His hand, gathering the festering wounds into himself and replacing them with clean flesh. He grabs my hand and begs me to come along with Him. I am no longer afraid of his judgment, or weighed down by the shameful burden of my sin. He carries it now. I am torn apart inside with the sheer joy of having my sins forgiven and my burdens lifted. I follow Him willingly. I walk with Him and sing with Him, for I am His bond-slave of freedom!
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or concerned, BY MY SIN?
I do NOT, understand why
you would write this and
say "no longer concerned"
Yes, Jesus death, DID
cover the sins PAST, but
my bible says " let NOT
sin reign, in your mortal
bodies" He expects us to
be concerned about future
sin, for to be forgiven,
AFTER HIS SPIRIT COMES,
you DO, have to ask for
it, for NO SIN, can enter
the gates of heaven! He
gives us a way out of it,
by being OUR STRENGTH,to
OVERCOME IT!! (KJV) Just
because HE comes and
forgives the past, does
not "give" us a lisence
to KEEP DOING IT. I speak
this in HIS LOVE, and
judge not things myself,
but WE ARE SUPPOSED TO
USE, HIS RIGHTEOUS
JUDGMENTS..Amen.