Destroyed!

Lately, well this week (the past 3 days) I have been trying something new.

I felt led on Monday night during quiet time, to read the same, one chapter, everyday!

I have definitely enjoyed it. I am beginning to learn how to intertwine a bible study and quiet time together.

I'm doing this because I am very busy, and it is not always convenient to have two separate times a day to study the word and to meditate on it. I think that this will really help me get through these last couple weeks of school and finals and everything!

   With that being said, I was reading Romans 8, as I have been for the last 3 days and God spoke to me of course!! :)

It's a little tiny part of the scripture.

I felt a little push when I read it, the sweet spirit definitely captured my attention. I was honestly quite surprised, because the verse seemed so irrelevant ( as I had read it like 5 times before!!)

 

It comes from verse 3 reading, "And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins"

 I'm at work so I don't have the bible I read it in this morning (it's huge). But in that bible they used the word destroyed instead of declared. And let me tell you, that hit me!! I stopped and was like hold up, God destroyed what??

Think about this!! God destroyed our sin. It never really occurs to us that God gives us a clear and concise way out, he HELPS us with this whole sin issue.

Yes! Before that sentence in verse 4 it reads: "The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have."

Yes! He did send his Son Jesus to die, and I am so thankful and forever indebted. But I think we as Christians ( and if not, then JUST ME) forget that Jesus is the example! Like Jesus did this so that it could be done, He died on the cross so it could "be finished" But God SENT Jesus, He initiated it all, He planned it, He HELPED US!

I don't know about y'all, but that really makes me so excited and joyful. To know that God is behind it all... Please do not think I am taking the emphasis off Jesus (which technically I am not, because they are the same person in the trinity). I am just in awe of how loving our God is. I've heard it, probably you too, "God sent his one and only son... da da da da". But I guess this morning God showed me the reality of that... like He knew how bad this sin issue was gonna be, He knew we would wrestle with this, and so lovingly helped us, in the most extraordinary way.

I guess I've looked at him sending Jesus as a chore, or a duty, or because He is God.  Even though I've heard John 3:16 a GAGILLION times... It's never set in. That God did this because he wanted to HELP us. It affects me so much because, I love to help. That is my heart. It might sound stupid. But that's who I am, I have a servants heart, yes, for the lost, but literally for anyone. I want to do that for the rest of my life. I want to be a helper. You get the point lol.

It may be that I'm not as mature and that's why this is such a big revelation to me, or it may be that God is going to keep building on this and revealing more... Either way, I'm excited! ahah

Welp, that's all, back to making flashcards -.- .
God bless YOU!