You Belong to Me

In my mind and in my heart, the meaning of this song goes beyond the love between a man and a woman. It is part of the soundtrack for the movie "Fireproof" which is an incredible movie about love, marriage, romance, and daring to be the best husband and wife you can be. The relationship we have with Jesus is sometimes compared to marriage, because the Bible says that Jesus is like a bridegroom coming for his beloved bride. I love this song because it reminds me that I belong to Jesus! Sometimes when I feel so far away from Him, I like to listen to this song and remember that I ALWAYS belong to Jesus--even if I don't feel like it. He is always waiting for me to come back to Him--His arms are always open for me to run to. Thank You, Jesus! I have always belonged to You!

Are you comfortable or a comforter?

J.H. Jowett ~ "God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters."

Pure and Faultless Religion

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." James 1:27

To Whom Will You Run for Help?

"Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?" ~ Isaiah 10:1-3

Our personal worth comes from within our hearts and how we are daily becoming more like Christ by following Him as disciples. How are we living and using the resources God has given us? What do we value as worthy of our time and resources?

Psalm 147:2-3

"The Lord builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." ~ Psalm 147:2-3

Wounds in our lives today can be healed by Jesus Christ our Lord. Do you have wounds? I know I do, and I need healing right now. Jesus and only Jesus can heal my broken heart, my weakened spirit, and calm my internal strife. Thank God He can gather me back to Himself as He did the exiled Israel...He can build me back up like He will the New Jerusalem. Praise God!

We are brought near to God by the blood of Jesus Christ

Ephesians 2: 11-22 (NKJV)

Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands—that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
Christ Our Cornerstone

Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.