Glory of It All

I've been asking God to help me to appreciate His Salvation that He gave me way back when I was 7. I remember: I was going to a Christian day school, and my teacher made it a point to have devotions with us K-1st graders every morning. I remember. I knew the verses: "For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son.... For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.... The wages of sin is death..... And if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus that He was raised from the dead......you will be saved." [totally paraphrased]

It suddenly dawned on me as a little 7yo, that I was in big trouble with God, and only Jesus could fix it. I cried. My teacher, Miss Borthwick, wanted to know what was the matter. I told her I needed to get saved. So, we sat on the stairs outside the little room, and it was there that Jesus came into my heart and saved me from my sins. It was all God's doing. He drew me. I am so so so saved, and I love the LORD for saving me early, so I don't have to spend too much time without Him. I pray that for my sons every day. Sometimes I feel like a failure, like I don't preach at them enough, like they don't get enough knowledge from the Word of God, or I don't love them enough, or don't teach them the basic things in life very well. Almost makes me want to take them out of school, take them home, and home school them. After all, the home is ordained by God. The home is ordained. The church is ordained. And I'm debating that maybe the nation of Israel may be ordained by God, but I'll have to do some research on that one.

Anyhow, lately, seems like I've lost the gumption for the love of my salvation, what it all means, why so many of the apostles and teachers focus much of their letters to the churches on it, and especially looking at the helmet of salvation. Why the Apostle Paul thought it was so important to have this helmet of salvation, I wanted to know why. So, I've been praying to the LORD that I'd love the salvation He gave me a long time ago more and more. Instead of just going about my life in la la, wishy washy land. And so may of us are doing that Right now. It really has to stop. THE CHURCH NEEDS TO WAKE UP!! Sound the shofar!! Wake up!!

This falls in very closely with our society right now. There aren't as many gifts under the tree this year, our economy seems to be screwed, our country's values are going down the toilet, our freedoms are being taken away, DC is full of fat cats, lobbyists, and whore houses. America today is not the America 100 years ago. Pride, selfishness, and lusts of the flesh, eyes, and heart are prevalent. Even in our churches and spiritual leaders. There's so much unhappiness and unholiness to think about. But, what I've been studying lately has not been in cahoots with how America is going now. THANK GOD!!

I'M HAPPY!! Yes! I am. I am so excited about the salvation given to me, the salvation that is MINE, the salvation that can not be taken away. Since we've (or I) have been studying 1 Peter 1, and yes, I'm still on that chapter 1, the LORD has been faithful and has given me great excitement that Obama, my bank, my doctor, my health insurance can never take away!! Never ever. Oh, look at 1 Peter with me. This is so exciting!!

1Peter 1:3-5
Praise be to the God and Father of out LORD Jesus Christ. In His great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. Who through faith shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is already to be revealed in the last time.

So may of these words stand out to me: "shielded by faith" (shield of faith), living hope (the glory that will come to us in the end! We will see His face!! AMEN and AMEN!!) "Praise" (he righteous will naturally rise up and praise the LORD!!) "Power" (I do not go about living in the wisdom of men, but under the power of God), "an inheritance that will not spoil or fade" (Obama and other socialist can not take away the salvation God has given to me), "the last time" (God almighty will have the last AMEN!! Yes He will!!)

I know Who is in the throne. Certainly not Obama. Although the "anointed one", so Glen Beck calls him, might think he's o on the throne, he is not. Have you ever noticed Obama's swagger. How he saunters in a room and presents his lovely self to the world. Hopefully, he's being humbled like I have. It's good to be humbled. I have a tendency to have a swagger myself, but that's another story for another day. Today's topic is about the Salvation and that even though nations crumble and fall into the sea, the LORD is still on the throne, and that is where we bend the knee.

Ps 100
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all ye lands!! Serve the LORD with gladness!! Come before His presence with singing!! Know that the LORD, HE IS GOD!! It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise.......

At the start He was there. In the end He'll be there!!

GLORY OF IT ALL
-David Crowder Band

At the start He was there, He was there.
In the end He'll be there, He'll be there.
And after all our hands have wrought, he forgives!!

CHORUS:
Oh the Glory of it all is:
He came here, for the rescue of us all
that we may live!
For the Glory of it all!!
Oh the Glory of it all!!

All is lost, find him there, find Him there.
After night dawn is there, dawn is there.
And after all falls apart He repairs, He repairs!!

CHORUS

It's a new day!! It's a new day!!
O everything will change!
We will never be the same
We will never be the same
We will never be the same

Is that not exciting?? Will not the LORD have the LAST AMEN?? Will He not come in the cloud at one time and on a white horse at another? Peter is all excited about it!! David Crowder is excited about it!! So am I. I am happy.

Today, I'm not in pain either. Some days I am in pain. Today I rejoice. Maybe tomorrow, I'll have to rest in the arms of the LORD because of pain. Still, even there, the glory of God is. And even in pain we can see the cross much more clearly!! But today is a day of no pain. Today I rejoice and know that the salvation given me, the helmet on my head, guards my mind.

1Peter 1:13
Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.


This is the day that the LORD has made.
I will rejoice and be glad in it.
For we will one day see His glorious grace.
Surely we'll see Christ face to face.
-Bible and Kim Snover (copyright 12-2009)


I hope you are blesses with this blog. The LORD blesses me, so I hope you will be blessed to.

DARKEST OF DARK
Tis in the darkest of dark
Tis in the blackest of skies
That we can see the stars so clearly.

Tis in the darkest of dark
In our moments of woe
That we cn see the cross of Christ so dearly

So take up your cross
And follow Jesus now
YAH YAH
So just take up your cross
and follow Jeus now
His grace is sufficient for me
His grace is all sufficient!!
His graceis sufficient for me
-copyright: Kim Snover 6-2008


Grace to you!!