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I am . . . 

The LOFT The Loft: A weekly Hangout and Link Up for Christian bloggers  (Graphic by Kerry Messer ) is open again and I am well pleased about that; the LOFT encourages me to write, something I have been lax in doing all this year. This week’s topic about which to write is who am I. And the post begins. I am . . . 

I am a rusher. I rush just about everything I do or think. Today’s Journey, of all things, is asking who am I. And what did I do as I began to read it? Yep. I rushed to read it, in fact as soon as I finish forming this sentence I am going to go back to it for I have yet to finish the reading as I rushed here to start writing this post. 

Other than one who rushes I wear many hats: wife, mother, grandmother, step-mother/grandmother, Sunday School leader/teacher; sometimes runner, more often walker :) ; active Curves member, which probably clues you in that I have a thing for fitness. Truth is I stay active because I like to eat. :) And I like to cook; I try to keep things on the healthy side, most of the time. My hubby retired this year and we are still adjusting. Actually, we are flat-out giddy about 6 Saturdays a week! Our days are packed with back to back long-awaited to be done projects and GRANDS who keep us young with all manner of activities. It’s all good! 

Still with all that, is that who I am? Am I, are any of us, the sum total of what we do?  What happens when my doing is done? Who will I be then when what I do now I can do no more? Valid questions for pondering, huh?  There is an answer.

Isaiah 43:1 But now this is what Adonai says,
he who created you, Ya‘akov,
he who formed you, Isra’el:
“Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you;
I am calling you by your name; you are mine. [source]

You are mine, says GOD. Could there be anything more identifying? Whose I am determines who I am.  That’s the cake! What I get to do with all the people I love is delicious icing!

So that’s about it. If by chance you have not read Our Story, check it out HERE.

Until next time ~ ~ ~ Kathie 

Like It or Not

24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. 2 Peter 2:24 [source]

Yes. Same verse. Second day. Focus today: He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross,

The filth of our sins poured into Him. He who NEVER committed even one of them experienced the filth of each of them. And not just the deadly feeling of the filth but the actual legal guilt of our sins were imposed on Him, personally in His own body! 

What sins? 

Let’s review just a few.

  1. You shall have no other gods before me.
  2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
  3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain,
  4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
  5. Honor your father and your mother,
  6. You shall not murder. (Matthew 15:19, Matthew 5:21-22)
  7. You shall not commit adultery. (Matthew 5:28 – applies male and female)
  8. You shall not steal.
  9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
  10. You shall not covet
    [source]

So which one have we NOT done?  For many of us when we consider the passages in Matthew, perhaps we have done them all.  Sobering? 

So. How grateful am I that He bore my sins in His body on the cross? (Like it or not) My behavior surely shows how grateful I am! 

Day 141 of 2015 ~ ~ Repentance. Perhaps our greatest need  ~~~ Kathie
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Why Don’t I?

A later posting than my usual and if as anticipated – short. 

24 “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” [source] I Peter 2:24


My focus this morning: so that we might die to sins. Since He died. And it was a cruel death. A substitutionary death. Since He died so I COULD die to sins, why don’t I? At least more than I do? 

Day 140 of 2015 ~ ~ Repentance. Perhaps our greatest need  ~~~ Kathie
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You Know?

28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. Romans 8 [source]


Day 139 of 2015 ~ ~ Repentance. Perhaps our greatest need  ~~~ Kathie

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