Sunday, 4 December 2011

STOP HIDING!

Dear Friends and Family,
     Welcome to my blog this morning.  I'm enjoying a glorious season of miracles, signs and wonders in the Presence of God.  I return again to The WORD FOR TODAY with Bob and Debby Gass along with Ruth Gass Halliday.  Be blessed...they would enjoy knowing how your appreciate them!  Contact them so you can glean daily from their giftings, callings and writing's.

    THE LORD GOD CALLED TO THE MAN, "where are you?" (Genesis 3:9 NIV)
    
     The first recorded question god ever asked was, Adam...Where are you?  And it's a question you need to stop and as yourself TODAY:  "here am I ---really?"  If you don't know the answer, or you do but you don't like it, then today's devotion is for you.  When Gd asked Adam "were are you?"  he responded "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid" (vs.10 NIV)  It's amazing the lengths we will go to in order to hide.   God wasn't trying to find Adam; He just wanted Adam to find himself.  Until you do that, you're truly lost.  And the problem is, when you hide you become a phoney.  Have you any idea how much emotional energy it requires to keep up a charade for others?  Only two things are worse: being a phoney with yourself and being a phoney with god.  furthermore, you'll find it difficult to be honest with others or look them in the eye.  Why?  Because you'll be afraid they might look into your heart and see the real you.  Is that where you are today?  Afraid to look into your own heart?  The good news is, Adam was naked but god clothed him; he was guilty but God cleansed him; he was anxious but God comforted him.  and if you come to Him today God will cleanse you, clothe you and comfort you.  He's just waiting for the opportunity to do it.

In the Love of Jesus!
James Wesley

   

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