"You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore." (Psalm 16:11)
Life, joy, pleasures: This is the endless, blind pursuit of humanity. One of today's Psalms, however, tells me that they are in Jesus Christ. How so very sad that so many don't see a relationship in the Living Triune God as having anything to due with life, joy, pleasures. For too many, it is "nose to the grind stone;" I have to read the Bible and pray; I have to go to Church meetings. It is a, "I have to," religion.
Consider again with me the Good News in Jesus Christ, that even though I deserved to be under, "the curse of the Law," God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit has the curse-deliverance for humanity, "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us." Once a person surrenders his/her life to Jesus Christ, sin is forgiven and, "....removed as far as the East is from the West." Then, as we go on to abide in Jesus Christ, living moment by moment in Jesus Christ, Jesus Himself becomes to us, "the path of life.., fullness of joy.., and pleasures forevermore."
Father, in Jesus' Name, I repent of any times in my life when I sought all that is in You everywhere but in You. Amen.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
