54 days til the wedding. Our weekends are packed. Only 7 weekends left until the wedding. Strangely enough, wedding details have yet to stress us out too badly. We have spent time with new friends over the last 2 months which God has totally used to refresh us daily. God has really shown us what it means to be the Body of believers and reach out to those who need help and serve in whatever ways our church family needs help. The devil has been active causing insecurities, doubts and nerves. But above all our Savior is mighty, and His grace is sufficient. Daily I ask Him for more grace.
In church we have been talking through Galatians, and how Paul loved the Galatians so much that he was on his knees begging for them to turn away from their sin and rebellion. Over and over again the question is presented, do we love people that much. Hell is real, and sadly, many people that claim to know the Lord are going to have Jesus say "Depart from me, for I never knew you, you worker of iniquity" Heartbreaking. Looking at how life is about to change and the relationships within family and friends that we are going to face as a married couple, we are starting to see how love for the Lord is hatred toward the world; and what it means to be truly sold out for the Lord and love others out of the overflow of Christ's love.
Rescue the Perishing
Rescue the perishing, care for the dying,
Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave;
Weep o’er the erring one, lift up the fallen,
Tell them of Jesus, the mighty to save.
Rescue the perishing, care for the dying,
Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save.
Though they are slighting Him, still He is waiting,
Waiting the penitent child to receive;
Plead with them earnestly, plead with them gently;
He will forgive if they only believe.
Down in the human heart, crushed by the tempter,
Feelings lie buried that grace can restore;
Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness,
Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
Rescue the perishing, duty demands it;
Strength for thy labor the Lord will provide;
Back to the narrow way patiently win them;
Tell the poor wand’rer a Savior has died.
Waiting stinks. Please pray for us. Please ask us how we are doing. Please hold us accountable.
1 Cor 6
12 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”[b] 17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.[c]
18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
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