Christine E.’s Journal

Discipline takes obedience and that is hard work! God teaches his children who have been scattered to obey Him instead of what society tells them. I relate to the prodigal in that I have traveled a road that was not always what God wanted for me. I had been very stubborn and still am. As His daughter I can be sure that I have Him but I am reminded that receiving God's discipline is not easy and many times it is laborious. I do know that I become more peaceful as time goes by, and this is not from myself. It is from Him. He is not a Father that leaves us in a mess so why would He allow His to keep being the same way we have always been? He is thorough and his plans happen as He says they will. What a joy to know that He is so loving to endure with us also.

Jesus is impenetrable in purity and He is without sin. He was a human but He was our Father's Son sent to a destructive people, a constantly backsliding people. I am amazed at Jesus' strength and His incomprehensible love for me and my brothers and sisters. I am blown away that He made the ultimate sacrifice for us, even when people were making it terribly difficult for Him. I am reminded in my deepest valleys that I am cared for by a very devoted Being-Jesus, who is closer to me than any other. I so long for others to know Him the way I do but I cannot make others commit to Him. Having Jesus is a life-time commitment, it is a marriage bond. I pray for people that I know to come into understanding of Him and His great sacrifice. Skeptics need to be handled by special kinds of people who take orders from Christ and I personally wish to perform the duties He has for me in helping shed His light into the lives of those people He desires me to reach to. our Father in Heaven, grant me the clearness of mind to know who you send me out to embrace with your light through Your word. grant me patience and endurance to accomplish what you desire for me to do and to speak to the lot of people with you wish me to impact. I know you are powerful in Your secret and miraculous ways of speaking through me and to me through Your Holy Spirit. If people that I know are living in unbelief and I can offer them encouragement that you deem suitable for me as it lines up with You, let me be Your hands and your feet. Thank you for blessing me during periods in my life in ways I didn't expect and through people who too asked you to use them for the expansion of salvation through Your Son Jesus Christ. By the Blood of Jesus, Amen