I am in Romans. Have you ever been reading in Romans and not feel so completely small and undeserving of His Saving Blood and Grace? I really think it is impossible not to fall flat on your face at the Feet of This Holy Dad we serve when you read this book that so clearly presents His Saving Gospel Message!

Today I am in chapter 2 and I read...
"HE will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, HE will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury." 

I don't know what category you fall in but me...I am definitely that self seeker who does not obey Truth. How humbling to read what I deserve! And then to read a couple of verses later that: " DAD judges the secrets of men by Js Chrst!!" Are you kidding me? All of that wrath and fury of My Father for my self-seeking and disobedient ways, you took all of that and now I am judged by You, My Beloved? How do I miss this at times? How do I choose to sin? How do I choose my own way? How can I act the way I do and say the things I do, as if there are no consequences and that I have the right? Who am I?

A nobody who was chosen by The Creator, bought by The King, and a bride waiting for my Bridegroom to come for me! That is exactly who I am - so why don't I act like it and remember that when I choose to be lazy, disobedient, and just ungrateful? 

I mean in the next verses it talks about the fact that I know HIS Will and approve what is excellent because I have been instructed by His Law...and what do I do with that? He continues by telling me that I should be a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, because I have the embodiment of knowledge and truth living inside of me! WOW...that took me back a step and I have been reflecting on how I am doing with the above portions of His Words to me through this letter to the romans years ago.

This is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith. 

Without faith it is impossible to please HIM. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of HIM. By faith Abel offered to HIM a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death. And by faith Noah...prepared an ark for the saving of his household. By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed and she bore a child when se was past the age, because she judged HIM faithful Who had promised. By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down.

All things are possible to him who believes. Looking unto Jss, the Author and Finisher of our faith. According to your faith let it be to you. Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well. If you have faith as a mustard see, you will say to this mountain, ' move from here to there,' and it will move. Do you believe that I am able to do this? Lrd, I believe; help my unbelief.

May we all be challenged by these Scriptures to walk by faith and not by sight. May we wait patiently as HE shows us what HE has for our today!