WORK OF ART

"What he's been creating, since the first beat of your heart, is a living, breathing, priceless work of art." __________________________________________________ WORK OF ART These words, This empty dialogue, What good does it really do? These rhymes, These clever poems, How does it prove my love for You? The songs I sing, The worship I bring, Do they really ever move Your Heart? This sinner's life, These empty hands, Is all I have for You to shape art. JEFFREYEPOLLOCK "This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth." 1 John 3:16-18 __________________________________________________ "What he's been creating since the first beat of your heart, is a living, breathing, priceless work of art." -- Stephen Curtis Chapman ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RECONCILIATION For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Corinthians 5:21 Sin is a fundamental relationship; it is not wrong doing, it is wrong being, deliberate and emphatic independence of God. The Christian religion bases every thing on the positive, radical nature of sin. Other religions deal with sins; the Bible alone deals with sin. The first thing Jesus Christ faced in men was the heredity of sin, and it is because we have ignored this in our presentation of the Gospel that the message of the Gospel has lost its sting and its blasting power. The revelation of the Bible is not that Jesus Christ took upon Himself our fleshly sins, but that He took upon Himself the heredity of sin which no man can touch. God made His own Son to be sin that He might make the sinner a saint. All through the Bible it is revealed that Our Lord bore the sin of the world by identification, not by sympathy. He deliberately took upon His own shoulders, and bore in His own Person, the whole massed sin of the human race - "He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin," and by so doing He put the whole human race on the basis of Redemption. Jesus Christ rehabilitated the human race; He put it back to where God designed it to be, and anyone can enter into union with God on the ground of what Our Lord has done on the Cross. A man cannot redeem himself; Redemption is God's "bit," it is absolutely finished and complete; its reference to individual men is a question of their individual action. A distinction must always be made between the revelation of Redemption and the conscious experience of salvation in a man's life. MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST - by Oswald Chambers =========================================== http://www.heartlight.org/devotionals/my_utmost ======================================================================