Thursday, November 6, 2014

What does it mean to be redeemed?

What does it mean to be redeemed? If I went to God's kingdom with my coupons and asked him to validate them for me would He? He'd probably tell me to go back to the grocery store and give them to the homeless man outside the door. Why? You really don't know? "Hadn't you heard? Didn't you know?" Jesus Christ of Nazareth has already redeemed you and I. He's already redeemed your family. He's already redeemed your friends. Through His blood and through His life we can say to others that we live and breathe and have our being all due to what the Messiah Yeshua has already done for us. "It is done" means IT IS DONE. No if's and's or but's about it. He redeemed me and you. He validated all of us whether we realize it or not. It is Him that did it. Not us or what we'd like to believe we did for ourselves. We are not gods. Gods aren't loved like we are. We are children of the Father. His only desire is to have us all living with Him under His roof and in His house so that we can simply BE WITH HIM. Since the beginning of time that is all He wanted; children to have and to hold and a wife for His son Jesus which is the church, the bride, the body of believers that holds the testimony of Christ in faith and in high regard. And we should do this not just so we can be saved but so that we can live in our salvation and realize what "salvation" really means to us and for us and for the millions of others suffering in the world today. To be redeemed is to be ready in faith to spread the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ to all people so that they may be saved and changed into the likeness of Christ. The fruition of being in tangent with the Holy Spirit is more than we could ever acknowledge. The fruit alone is more than my spirit could ever hunger for. Because of His blood IT really IS done, I am REALLY in Truth, I am REALLY alive, and I am REALLY walking in the WAY of my friend and my Lord Jesus Christ. The lies will never deceive the Truth so if we are in the Truth how can we really believe the lies to be Truth? We cannot. The Truth is our discernment and will lead us out of trouble every time we seek it. 

So I seek it right now Lord and declare that we are redeemed by you and your blood. "Thank you" does not suffice what you've done for me. My life is yours. Take me as I am. My faith is in You. My trust is in You. My sword is your Spirit guiding my every swing and leading our family to our Father. I choose You Lord. For You are the ONLY way, the ONLY truth and the ONLY way to live life... for You are life and I choose You.

- Jezzadiah Giles

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