So what is Truth?

We have an anchor

By Pricilla J. Owens, 1882

Will your anchor hold in the storms of life,
When the clouds unfold their wings of strife?
When the strong tides lift, and the cables strain,
Will your anchor drift or firm remain?

We have an anchor that keeps the soul
Stedfast and sure while the billows roll,
Fastened to the Rock which cannot move,
Grounded firm and deep in the Savior's love.

It is safely moored, 'twill the storm withstand,
For 'tis well secured by the Savior's hand;
And the cables passed from His heart to mine,
Can defy the blast, through strength divine. 

“For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the Sons of God.”

Romans 8:14

I am bringing up a sensitive and seemly very dividing topic. The more time I’ve spent In Christ and in the Christian culture the more I’ve come to realize how big of a debate this topic is among Christians and even brothers and sisters in my own congregation. I, by no means have the final word on the subject, nor would I ever claim to. I also do not have the extensive knowledge or teachings of a seminary student, or the years of experience as a pastor, however, neither did Paul of Tarsus. The Holy Spirit spoke through the man for God's good purposes of getting the good news out into the world.

This debate stirs the question; what is truth? what is the good news? What precisely is the Gospel? Is it that we must submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ for salvation? Or is it that salvation is through faith alone- believing the work of Christ at Calvary alone that brings salvation... meaning no transformation, only belief?! 

I have gone back and forth over these two sides of the coin and I must conclude that; I don't know.

Maybe it's that I don't like the idea of putting a "label" on the works of The Father, Son and Holy Spirit, because I’ve seen foolish debates over these labels and they are a far cry from Christ. “But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless.” Titus 3:9

It could also be that I haven't quite worked it out fully, but here is where I think I personally sit…

I think it's both and not entirely either or...  Let me explain;

I have a unique testimony, one not unfamiliar to many people I would suppose, but not as black and white as some. 
I wasn't brought up in a Christian home, where I was saturated in Christian culture where Jesus dying on the cross and rising from the dead was commonly known and talked about frequently.

I was also not completely in the opposite boat either to where I had no knowledge of Christianity or Jesus and had never even stepped foot inside a church. 

When I was 7 or 8 years old I went to church at Bethany Assembly in Everett WA and I remember as a little girl coming home and telling my sister that God was real and I had accepted Jesus as my Saviour. I went on to prove it by playing the very first Mario Bros game on the very first Nintendo gaming system and I had never beaten the game in its entirety before and this time I started it and ended it in one sitting, beating the whole game and telling my sister "See  God is real and Jesus is awesome!"  (This is where those who truly believe that salvation is through faith alone would say I was saved) I believe, I was a child and had true childlike faith here but was I saved? I don't know. 

As a family, we didn't go to church regularly nor do I remember ever reading the Bible together, however, my mom had taught us songs like Jesus Loves Me and This Little Light of Mine and she frequently read us Children Bible stories as we grew up. 

Now fast forward 5-6 years. 

I was 12 and 13 years old and our family was in the middle of a devastating divorce. I thought that at the time it was for the best because living with my father wasn't a walk in the park by any means but the family I had always known was being ripped apart and the stress and pain we all felt was palpable. 

During that time, I stayed at a lot of friends’ houses. One friend in my neighborhood had parents that were pretty open with being Christian and went to church regularly and read the Bible together and would literally spank my friend if she listened to secular music. That was a little shocking to me because I grew up listening to secular music however I saw how they worked as a family, albeit sometimes a dysfunctional one but they were more family then I was getting so I started joining them for sleepovers Saturday nights and going to church with them on Sundays. 

I started going to City of Refuge Christian church, the church falls under the umbrella of a non- denominational, charismatic, evangelical church that believes the regeneration work of the Holy Spirit in a person is essential to salvation. (Would this regenerative belief be under the umbrella of Lordship salvation?) 

And although I spent much time with my church family and was even baptized; I wasn't regenerated, at all. There was no change in my mind, heart or behavior. I was still blind to God and His truth.
I was into all the debauchery secular teenagers are into and it basically boils down to practicing lawlessness. I loved being rebellious and pushing all boundaries.  I was angry at my parents for getting a divorce and I let them know it through and through and although my church family was there for me, I was left alone quite a bit and to put it bluntly; I was out to raise hell.

I won’t go into all the details but you can ask my parents, any family members and lots of friends in those days of my childhood shenanigans. During these years is also when I started to get heavily into astrology and that continued into my late 20's.

Needless to say; I wasn't sanctified, I wasn't holy, and if I was saved, the Holy Spirit surely didn't convict me into thinking what I was doing was wrong, well sometimes I’d feel guilty but I would just justify my behavior with my anger to my parents. I also became a meth addict for a little over two years, age 18-20. That sure doesn’t “seem” Christian to me. Nor do I think anyone saw Jesus in me.

I did, however, have a yearning for a relationship with God but I had no idea how to incorporate Him into my life. I used the Bible like it was a fortune teller;  The ask a question, flip to an answer method and if I didn't like the answer, I would pray harder and flip again. 

I was just a confused and blind kid which made me the perfect prey to be taken captive and away from the faith. Which I was, by a book called Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsh and didn't even think of coming back to Christianity for over 10 years. (See my testimony for additional info during that period.) Colossians 2:8 “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.” – Yep, failed on that one.

But then- God called me.  1 Peter 5:10, 11 “And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.”

Yes I had been searching for God in all the wrong places and yes I had dabbled in every other faith under the sun it seemed, but this time God called me.“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”  Jeremiah 29:13

God found me dead in my sins and He opened my eyes to who He was and the work he did on the cross and that He and Jesus were one. The realization of Jesus being the second part of the 3part God head, aka the deity of Jesus never occurred to me before. No matter how many times people would tell me, through sermons and believers in general. I was deaf and blind to it. But then-- He covered me in His grace. I kept thinking over and over “I am in the center of Grace” and I felt so unworthy and more loved then I had ever felt or believed in my life. I knew Jesus was the Living God. The Holy Spirit also convicted me of truly being a sinner on my way to hell and in desperate need of a Saviour. 

Yes I believed in Jesus at age 7 or 8, but did I really know and understand what I believed? Yes I was immersed into a church community for a few years in my youth but did it really affect me? Maybe. 

The truth is, I didn't know I was saved, didn't act like I was saved and didn't feel freedom- until now. And I even completely walked away from the faith from the time I was 16 until I was 30 to boot! Thank the Lord I came to my senses like the prodigal son did while in the pigsty!

Some say that I was saved the whole time and this was ALL part of Gods plan, which I've pondered, many times.

Others may say I wasn't saved and once I made Jesus the Lord of my life is when I actually was.

I don't know...

I do know that believing in Jesus this time was one of the hardest parts. There was no "easy believism" for me as I was very liberal and into New Ageism, astrology, witchcraft, tarot and basically a self appointed Oracle, and so were all of my friends. I was embarrassed to even think about going back to Christ because I firmly believed God had taken me beyond that base belief system to a greater more truthful one. I was living in complete and utter sin and thinking I was enlightened and more spiritual then any Christian could ever hope to be. My pride was so thick and so strong that even now it's a little hard for me to believe God penetrated through it and got to me. But if anyone could have- He can. 

Since I've been a born again believer, and since He called me out darkness and into His marvelous, all-consuming light, I have bowed in awe and obedience to Him. I have been a majority of the time, in the center of His grace and I've made Jesus, The Lord of my life. All of this automatically happened at the point of belief for me this time and it has recently occurred to me that even the belief was God's gift.

I have now been converted from a non-regenerated, living-in-sin-person to a completely transformed-and-obedient-to-Christ-person. I hunger for God’s will and God’s Word. I feel completely out of reality when I’m not completely anchored in Christ. “Seek the LORD while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.”  Isaiah 55:6

I'm not saying I’ve been completely sinless, because I haven't. But an older woman of the faith, and pretty much my best friend now a days explains it like this, "It is one thing, my dear, to participate in lawlessness and quite another to fall into the traps satan sets for us; to fall into sin." 

I am inclined to agree with her. It is one thing fall into sin, it's inevitable, half of the time we don't even realize it until later and it's revealed by The Holy Spirit.  But to remain in sin, aka actively participating in sin, is quite another thing altogether.

I will continue to work out my salvation with fear and trembling, and when God says “Go” I will go and when God says “Stay” I will stay and when God says “Walk away from those that you love for now.” I will walk. I want only my Lords will. He gave His life for me, and gave me the power to do the same for Him… Why wouldn’t I want to with all of my heart?  I will abide; stay immersed in God’s word. The hunger I have for His sweet and filling word continues to shape and mold every step of me in the midst of this blessed assurance.“If you [really] love Me, you will keep (obey) My commands.”  John 14:15 AMP

I don’t know if Lordship Salvation is the only way or if it is through faith alone, but I do know, I am not who I was and it’s all because of Jesus Christ and what he did on the cross of Calvary. He died and he rose from death three days later and defeated death and hell, and because I know/believe/have faith/feel gratitude about that that, it’s put my soul on fire. He’s made me to love and appreciate my life and He’s made me want to be obedient to Him and to His word and His will in my life and it’s made me want to know His character and have a relationship with Him daily.

If this wasn’t the case, I would take a really long hard look at my life to see if I was actually self-deceived and sadly on my way to hell thinking I was on the narrow road. If I didn’t know without a doubt of His assurance, I would seriously cry out “Help me, O LORD my God; save me in accordance with your love.” Psalm 109:26 and I would read the parable of the sower to see of which seed I fell;  

Matthew 13:1-23

The Parable of the Sower

“That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. ² Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. ³ Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. ⁴ As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. ⁵ Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. ⁶ But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. ⁷ Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. ⁸ Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. ⁹ Whoever has ears, let them hear.”

¹⁰ The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”

¹¹ He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. ¹² Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. ¹³ This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;
    though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

¹⁴ In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:

“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
    you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
¹⁵ For this people’s heart has become calloused;
    they hardly hear with their ears,
    and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
    hear with their ears,
    understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’

¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. ¹⁷ For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

¹⁸ “Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: ¹⁹ When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path. ²⁰ The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. ²¹ But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. ²² The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. ²³ But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”

Jesus Christ is my Lord and Saviour with whom I'm madly in love. I know what it’s like to be in the center of grace and I know what it’s like to keep my Saviour’s commands.

“The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.”John 1:9-13

  
^{{One thing I do know is you cannot have belief without faith and you cannot make Jesus your Lord without belief in Him, so it all has to work, together for Gods Glory.}}

My Savior, My God

By Aaron Shust

I am not skilled to understand

What God has willed, what God has planned

I only know at His right hand

Stands One who is my Savior

I take Him at His word and deed

Christ died to save me this I read

And in my heart I find a need

For Him to be my Savior

That He would leave His place on high

And come for sinful man to die

You count it strange, so once did I

Before I knew my Savior

My Savior loves, my Savior lives

My Savior's always there for me

My God He was, my God He is

My God He's always gonna be

Yes, living, dying let me bring

My strength, my solace from this spring

That He who lives to be my King

Once died to be my Savior

That He would leave His place on High

And come for sinful men to die

You count it strange so once did I

Before I knew my Savior

My Savior loves, My Savior lives

My Savior's always there for me

My God He was, My God He is,

My God He's always gonna be

My Savior lives, My Savior loves

My Savior lives, My Savior loves

My Testimony of Jesus Christ

 I was a sinner in the worst ways and yet I didn’t even  know it. I was blind. There was a veil over my eyes.  I didn’t believe in sin or the fallenness of man through Adam and Eve; the supposed first disobedience to God. 

I thought all the bible was, was myths passed down from Jewish generation to generation and were, to put it bluntly, just plain fairytales. Not that I dislike fairytales, I like them very much but I believed the stories in the bible were only “tales” to scare us into doing the “right” thing. “Right” in my opinion, was relative. What was possibly right for you didn’t have to be right for me, and vice versa. 

 I was continually searching for God, but, not the mean and nasty “Holy Bible” God that started wars and made people hate one another. I was searching for the god of love that accepted everyone and everything, including everything about me and what I wanted. I searched in Church, I searched in people, I searched in books and eventually, I came across a book called Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsh. Now this book fit with EVERYTHING I had EVER thought, it allowed me to believe that everything was of God. There was no such thing as “Original Sin” and everything I did was for Gods own experience, therefore completely and utterly acceptable. 

This is how far my depravity went. The belief that God accepts everything and everyone and not only that but; we are God. We need to rise up like Jesus and say “I am the Truth, the Life and the Way, Follow me.” (That is one of the many parts of scripture that Neale Donald Walsh has changed to suit his own purposes.) This book taught me that Jesus was a great guy, the best example of humanity to date on having “communion with God” and we were supposed to emulate that. 

So with all this "truth" what happened? What was the problem? I was free to stand up and declare that I was the truth, and the way, and I can do whatever I want and people should follow me in doing whatever they want… So what could have been the problem? 

Freedom was awesome… I drank, did drugs, participated in sexual immorality ,I  swore, I stole, I practiced astrology and witchcraft, I acted most of the time out of jealousy, I created contention aka drama, I manipulated people, situations and even my own view of love, and I did all these things out of selfish ambition, to get what “I” wanted. The best part was that I had the freewill to be self-righteous and all knowing, in all of the above, as pride capped the ice burg of my so called freedom.

That "freedom" turned into more and more bondage and as time went on and I became more and more lost. I hurt people and I hurt myself and I damaged many relationships past the point of repair. I finally found myself where depravity always leads; alone. 

 But alone is just where God wanted me. He had His own plans for my life, I just didn’t know it yet. 

 One day (over 10years later) I looked at myself and my surroundings and I thought; this is NOT what I would picture God to be like. This is NOT what I expect love to be. How is it that I’ve come down this far of a spiral? I have tried creating the reality I’ve always wanted, I blindly and foolishly believed I was creating everything I had ever hoped for. I had tried to do things all on my own and NOTHING I have ever done has turned out the way I WANT! What am I missing??

 That’s when the hardness of my heart started to crack and then one night, God woke me up... Literally.

 

Out of a deep sleep, I arose and I walked into my friend’s living room and I was just standing there, it was still dark out and I started to look around and wonder “what am I doing out here?” Then I looked at the digital clock on their cable box and it was 3:16am and the verse came flooding into my memory as clear as day;

 “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him, shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16

“NO WAY” I thought and I ran back into my friend’s room where I had previously been sleeping. I got up onto the bed and actually walked over her, sound asleep to get to my iPhone and I frantically googled John 3:16 and sure enough, that was the verse that had come flooding into my mind.

That’s when truth really started to shine its glorious light. I started reading the bible off of an iPad that I had won at work and I read this verse; Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. John 14:6… another crack in my heart of stone… I was lied to by Neale Donald Walsh, Jesus didn’t say follow me-- He said no one comes to the Father except through me… That means no one can get to God except through Jesus. How was this possible? Was I really lied to? This didn’t make sense. 
 

Now all of this “truth” came at what I thought was the wrong time: I was supposed to be ushering in the New Age, I was supposed to be consciously vibrating at higher and higher levels, coming into what some New Ageist’s call; Christ Consciousness. 

Yet instead, the more I looked around at my actual reality and the more that God's Truth (His Word) penetrated my worldly thinking, the more I began to realize; I had truly been deceived. This is when I finally let my gaurd down and believed I was the sinner God saw of me and I needed Jesus. I finally got over my stupid pride of "what will people think" and "I was right" and I realized I was actually wrong, foolish and I didn't care anymore what people thought and I put my faith and trust into my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. I have never looked back.

I now call New Ageism what it is; the beautiful lie. It is so close to God’s truth that it is easily believed and it “feels right" but as God has taught me since my conversion, "feelings aren't the barometer for life, and more often then not; they lead us completely astray."

Neale Donald Walsh and New Ageism has a lot of it right, as with every lie, they have partial truths to make them believable but Neale and most New Agers missed the most important part making them false prophets; a person or people that lead souls away from God’s Truth. I used to be a false prophet. I am gravely sorry for all the people I have led away from Gods truth. I know Jesus died for that sin among all others, however, to denounce our past frees us for our future.

  

The part that I had missed-- I was now coming face to face with and had to admit, I was what God sees, a sinner in desperate need of a saviour. (When the Holy Spirit comes, He convicts the world of sin, and only then do we see the reality of who we are to a Holy God)

I loved drinking, smoking, sexual immorality, manipulation, ect. I loved the very things that proved that I was a sinner and that kept me blind, deaf and dumb, and without a relationship with God. 

Sin is the problem. It is the main issue and the reason why there are negative experiences and evils in the world and we can’t “create our own realities” so that we get precisely what we want. Wanting for our own benefit is a sin in itself and one I would call the worst sin; Pride. It is the worst offender of all because pride deceives us into thinking “We know” or “I have it all figured out” “ I don’t need help” “I can do it on my own” Pride is selfish, and God is anything but selfish. 

Sin separates us from God and therefore, fundamentally, we are flawed. Our wants and desires are flawed, our hearts are flawed, our dreams are flawed. They are all against the very nature of our Creator. From the time we are born into this world until we perish, we are in every way shape and form lacking. The only thing that can make us whole is Christ. Not Christ consciousness or the creating of our own realities, but Christ alone. Why is that?

Here is what God showed me; FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD. Romans 3:23

This verse got me thinking. The Glory of God is what? Love? Heaven? Creation? All of the above?! Then I thought about heaven for a long time. Heaven is supposed to be where we spend eternity. Where we go after our bodies perish here on earth. It is where we, in spirit form, will live forever. Heaven is going to be perfect. 

Deep down we all want to believe we are going to heaven, but how do we know? How do we get there?! Are we automatically invited when we die? My depraved thinking lead me to believe that if God loved us, we would ALL go to heaven. 

But then I came to this truth; to be in heaven I have to be perfect because heaven is perfect.

Wait, how can I be perfect if here on earth, I am so flawed? Do I automatically become perfect at the point of death? There has to be an answer to all of this; and in fact there is. In God’s word. God gave us His Word to tell us His Truth. He used the Jewish people to bring us His word and law through what we now call the Holy Bible and then He sent Jesus, the incarnate Word, to reiterate the Word of God in flesh. 

The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14

Well, now this answered on a physical level, what God’s glory was. God’s Glory is Jesus. Jesus lived on this earth and because He and the Father are one, He never sinned and by believing that God sent His Son to die for my sins, I would get to be perfect aka righteous in God's eyes. Jesus would cover me in His righteousness and perfection. 

Jesus was the perfect one and no matter how much I stood up and said; “I am the truth the life and the way, follow me.” I was never going to be perfect. No matter how much I believed the deception, or acted like "I knew the way” I was a miserable replica and I fell short. Everytime. 

And so did all those around me that thought they were “creating their own realities” as well. Not one of them was perfect, no matter how much they thought they were or how enlightened they fooled themselves into believing they were. They also fell short. 

I had once believed that if they were enlightened beings, capable of great, unconditional love, they never would have left me when I was at my worst. They would have stayed and been the true unconditional love that I was searching for all my life. But men pale in comparison to God’s love and light. 

God already did it all for me. I didn’t have to be perfect, Jesus already was. I didn’t have to go to God, God came to us through His Son, seeking our relationship. This is why Jesus is the only way.

God is Good, and I don’t know about you, but goodness to me is-- Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, order and self-control. Give or take a few qualities.  

That means that God is NOT the opposite of good; hate, killjoy, unrest, impatience, unkindness, pain, harshness or full of debauchery and chaos.

God is SO good that He sent His one and only Son to die for us to take the penalty of all of the evil and darkness inside of us. But why does there have to be a penalty? Why does there have to be a sacrifice at all? Why doesn’t God just automatically forgive?! This question was also one that has always plagued me and Gods Word of course answered.
 

 All throughout Jewish History there was sacrifice of blood for sins. All throughout the whole Old Testament is story after story showing Gods character in the forgiving of sin through blood sacrifice. The sacrifice had to be the most perfect animal (goat, sheep, ect) that one could find. Even from the beginning of mankind, God shows that blood is our life source, when the blood of murdered Able cried out to him from the ground. He shows that there must be the shedding of blood, for the forgiveness of sins. So that is why Jesus is also called the Lamb of God. He was the perfect blood sacrifice for all of humanity.

Not only did Jesus die as the perfect blood sacrifice, taking the penalty of our sins and shame upon his shoulders...

Jesus not only took the penalty He also rose from the dead 3 days later. That power, His resurrection proved once and for all that God died for us as the perfect sacrifice and rose again, defeating death, proving that all the powers of earth and hell could not stop the creator of universe and the love he has for his creation; his people. This was the only way to save the creation He had made from seperation and depravity. 

This is a tremendous reality; God has defeated death and by doing so, through Jesus, has invited us into his very near presence. We now truly have communion with God, where sin is truly defeated. That is the power of Jesus Christ. That is good news.

 

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20

Ever since God called me out of darkness (the not knowing, caring, or understanding of His sacrifice) and into his marvelous light; I have been totally in awe of Him. He chased me and didn’t give up. He knew every hair on my head and he used all of creation to tell me the greatest love story of all. His story.

I have now been “Born Again”

So what does being born again mean?

It means I have been born of Spirit, born first in the flesh and now born again of the Spirit.

Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council.  He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”

“How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” John 3:1-8

He loves us with an everlasting love and I am grateful beyond words that I have been saved by grace, through faith. All it takes is the faith of a mustard seed and you can move mountains. (Matt 17:20) All we need do is believe in Jesus the Christ and what He did at Calvary. True belief spurs a love that is immeasurable and greatly respected. He has torn the veil between us and our Creator. He is making all things new!

“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” –Jesus (Matthew 11:29,30)