Okay so it's been a little while...

"Jesus/King of Salvation/...King of the Broken"

Hey all,

Hope you are well! It's been awhile since I've posted on here! Aah!!! Sorry! I've been a little busy moving this past week and felt like I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off! Uffda!

I just bought two cd's last week that are so excellent. The first is "Life Light Up" by Christy Nockels. I have been a fan of Christy's for a few years, back when she was a part of Watermark, with her husband Nathan. Her new album in great! I love all the songs. I have been challenging myself to really spend time with each song on the record. I have this horrible habit of skipping through songs if I'm not necessarily in the mood for them. But all the songs on this album, even if I want to skip the beginning part, have such great melodies and lines deeper in the song. And they are excellent and I love praising God with the music.

The line above and the one below both come from some new songs off the the "CompassionArt" cd. It has a various number of artists and the songs are powerful! I have been listening to in the office and I am so blessed and challenged to love God more thoroughly and to love His children more completely. Highly recommended tunes!

I have been reading Romans lately, and I love all that I am learning. I am leading a Bible Study too on Sundays in between services and we last studied Romans 3. When I was preparing for Bible Study, there was a componet that really struck my fancy. Paul is countering an argument made by the Jews about God's righteousness. Read it here--Romans 3:5-8:
"But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrat on us? (I am using a human argument.) Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world? Someone might argue, 'If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?' Why not say--as we are slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say--'Let us do evil that good may result'? Their condemnation is deserved."

When I was reading a commentary, one author brought up this would be the case Judas Iscariot would bring up against God, believing that what he did was part of God's plan anyway and that should earn him eternal rest with God because he fulfilled what God had in store for him. However, Paul is also looking at our motives toward God. Were Judas' motives toward Jesus pure? We all know they were self-seeking, giving him sin. And God does not tolerate sin at all.

I found this to be very interesting! God is wise. Later on, Paul also continues to tell of the atoning sacrifice made by Jesus Christ! This is the gospel and it is so powerful! We are saved by His blood! I am reminded that I can never question God because of my sin and His own purposes. His ways are higher, and I am glad they are.

Be blessed all! Soli deo Gloria!

"So great/So great/And your love endures forever/To the end/of the age/Oh, your love endures forevermore"