The Day

Genesis 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...

Luke 1 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin betrothed...

Revelation 9 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year were released...

Acts 17 Because He has fixed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness...

Just a thought.....Why THAT day?

Have you ever wondered about it?

In the beginning, not of God who has no beginning and no end, but the beginning of recorded time, He stepped into our lives. The God of all the universe, the Creator of all things that have ever been, created time and stepped into space and man became a living creature. God chose a moment to reveal Himself to creation. But why that day?

Why the OTHER day? The day that God chose to step into flesh Himself. Why not a million years earlier or two minutes after. Why this couple, or this body or this way?

Why the LAST day? The date that is already fixed in time for judgment?

God has chosen a day to begin; a day to be sacrificed and a day when time will end as we know it and eternity will begin.

So I ask the Lord, why?

And His answer reveals the depth of His love for me. Why Lord? His answer was, You. One second off either way, either day earlier or later and you would never have been. And you HAD to be. For I have loved you with an everlasting love. Before time. Before man. Before anything was...I am. It was for you. For all of you, My children.

Wonderful. Merciful. Savior.

I won't go into all the details, because most of them are over my head :), but look up for yourself the chances of you even existing. See what has to happen in every second for a specific person to be created. What you will find is that everything that has ever been, must have been in order for YOU to have been.

That is the wonder of who He is. He set it all in motion, the entire plan, the whole event, every moment so that you and I would be around to share in the glory that belongs to Him alone.

If that doesn't cause your heart to break, to swell with adoration, to bow low in worship then frankly, you might not have one.

Lord you are good beyond all measure. So to You alone belongs all praise, worship, adoration, glory and honor. That you would love us at all is amazing but that You would do all of this for us is incomprehensible.

The Word

Isaiah 55 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

My ultimate goal in writing is this....To bear witness that God is faithful; to give hope to the hopeless, to point others to the salvation that is only found through a relationship with Jesus Christ, my Lord. I believe that I also have the mind of Christ in this.

For the first time, in a long time, I am unsure of the next step. But I am not unsure of this, God brings to completion the work that He begins to do.

So this morning He leads me to Jeremiah....

Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations....for to all whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord...Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

So begins the book and the work of the Lord in the life of Jeremiah....so do we all begin to walk in Him. He speaks into our heart. He steps into our lives. He breathes into these dead souls the breath of the Holy One and we begin to live.

While you and I may not be called of God to be a prophet to the nations, we are called to fulfill the purpose of the Lord for our own lives. There is work to be done that only you can accomplish. You were formed for it, made for it, equipped for it and will be blessed in the doing of it. And if we fail to achieve it, will it get done?

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying Jeremiah, what do you see?

So as you read this and look at your own walk and your own life, what is He saying to you?

What do YOU see?

Father, remember that we are flesh and speak plainly Your words of truth to us. We are dull of hearing and weak in vision. We lack courage and stamina.

Hebrews 12 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet.