Greetings sisters!
God gave us one more day (and a new month) to serve Him and fight the good fight of faith. That's so worth fighting isn't it sisters. We know the world fights for many many things...fleshly lusts, forbidden things, freedoms, to win for fame and a good name, for a good life now, and other such things. But we sisters have no better thing than to be seeking God first in our lives. We keep moving forward, growing, holding fast and when we are weak we can be strengthened in the Lord's truth and grow stronger. And it's an extra blessing if we have the fellowship and support and encouragement of the brethren in it all.
I was thinking about the fact that sin wrecks so many things...everything. It may seem good for a time for those living in it but we know it leads to death. But I was thinking about it in terms of life in the body of Christ. How we see when everyone loves the Lord and how it can work together when everyone is all truly seeking God first. It would only be sin that would mar this.
It was that changed everything in the garden of Eden. The woman...who was to be a help meet to the man...sinned. And it certainly wrecked the perfection there once was. We hope for the day it will be restored once more...and that we get to partake of it because we have believed and obeyed the gospel.
I have been blessed to see amongst several brethren (of which includes a few of you sisters) how precious the body of Christ is. And our love of the Lord, our fear of Him and hatred of sin and false ways, and our love of each other does all work together in some wonderful ways. It would only be sin that would corrupt this and we don't want that to be. I know it would be dealt with in love if sin arose and repentance and restoration would be hoped to come from it...for God's glory. Praise Him, His ways are high and holy. What a mockery we see amongst those claiming His name living in all kinds of sin, worldliness, and fleshly false ways.
I was also thinking about how we have in our past been immersed in the lie that God is all love (without judgment and wrath on sinners) and so believed it either intentionally or not. And what we saw with death everywhere including in the pages of the OT and the suffering we see today was not making any sense with that. But we can see the truth if we look in the Word about what's most important to Him.
We sisters got to talking about wells and water and how we're blessed to have water to do what we need to without too much effort. But we remember the most important water.
A sister had posted a recipe for it on her blog awhile ago and so I asked her about it and she was giving me some advice and I shared with her how it was going along the way as I made it (the blessing of instant messaging and thank you sister:-).
And I got to use our first pumpkin from the garden tonight...
...for the meal...
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:1 Peter 1:17
Thank you sister for these gifts today...
How humbling it is that our Lord is preparing us a place. Are we preparing for Him...doing our best? We are seeking to follow after Him, deny ourselves, aiming to walk worthy, blameless, for Him as we have been called to. It's a high calling but we know He gives us what we need. It's all just our reasonable service...nothing more.
We love God's Word too...we live by every word of it.
OK I must go now! I do hope all your good works you need to do as godly women are fruitful as you do them unto the Lord! God sees and knows all things! Isn't that comforting sisters. He knows when we are seeking to please Him, when we fail and try again, and also what others do to us. Let us trust in Him!
Love in Christ,
Sister Michaela
Find the gospel explained here.