Good morning,
I was thinking about how much I love watching our young men become God’s men. I could watch that forever!
I thought about Jonathan’s testimony last night, and I remember asking Jesus how he feels about ” once a sinner, always a sinner?” Jesus answered me in the most perfect way. Jesus told me ” If I was ok with sin, I would have left you in it.”
The first thing Jesus did for me was to clean me up from the life of sin I was drowning in.
Fast forward 9 years and my daughter asked me about that very thing. I was able to pass on the most perfect answer Jesus gave me, because it would clear it up for her too. She witnessed Jesus cleaning all that sin from her mama and was experiencing Jesus cleaning things up for her too, so it was her most perfect answer too. God is so good!
Before Jesus sent Jerry, my sister-in-law came to me hurting because of my dying condition and asked me to please come get baptized. I was so close to death and so miserable, I wanted anything that might make it stop. So, I went and said a prayer with them, and got dunked in a big tank, hoping I would come up different like they said. I can still feel the hopelessness I felt when I didn’t.
Now, I got in that big tank because they told me it would wash my sins away, and I would be different. But after my family witnessed the real Jesus come and fix everything, change my whole nature, then they told me I would always be a sinner. Well, what was the point of getting in that big ole tank of water then? Bless their hearts, they really are confused. They don’t know what they believe. It makes me very thankful for answers from Jesus.
You said last night, “Come let us reason together.” I love that. I took my question to Jesus and Jesus answered it. We reasoned together, and I didn’t even know we were doing that. What a wonderful God we serve.
Isa. 1:18: “Come, I pray you, let us reason together, says Jehovah. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.”
Love
Beth