Today my thoughts are taken up with our Lord’s promise to return for His church. I think of His words in Jn 14.2-3, “In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.” O the joy of that promise! O the blessing of those precious words to my soul! Will you pause and think with me a moment? Continue reading “Thoughts of His return”
Confessing our sins to our loving Father
One of the greatest struggles Christians have is against their own legalistic tendency to see our loving and merciful Father as a wrathful Judge when we’ve sinned against Him.
It is of course true that we Christians do sin. We sin everyday–to our grief and shame. But we no longer sin as a criminal in Adam before a Judge in God. Instead, being in Christ (Col 1.13-14), we sin as a child of God before a God in Christ. Continue reading “Confessing our sins to our loving Father”
