The day with dianne Louise

He will destroy death forever. The Lord God will wipe away the tears from every face and remove His people’s disgrace from the whole earth, for the Lord has spoken. Isaiah 25:8 HCSB Our disgrace has been removed. Do you struggle to believe this? Jesus, by his death on the cross, paid the price of all our disgrace. By inviting Christ into my life at 19 I knew my disgrace was all removed. He set me free! How good is God! Instead of living in disgrace and shame you are set free!

He will destroy death forever. The Lord God will wipe away the tears from every face and remove His people’s disgrace from the whole earth, for the Lord has spoken. Isaiah 25:8 HCSB In this life I will experience physical death but eternal life is Mine. My spirit will live forever. Eternal death has been stolen. Praise God! Before I came to Christ death was a concern. Where will I go? Am I good enough for God? This was my greatest fear. In Christ I have no fear as I have given my freedom. God is good. Whilst I was still in sin Christ died for me. He set me free! Jesus and the work of the cross is real. Eternal life is real and to be sought. Seek Him today! Amen!

For while we were still helpless, at the appointed moment, Christ died for the ungodly. For rarely will someone die for a just person — though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die. But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us! Romans 5:6‭-‬8 HCSB We know we are not good enough for someone we do not know would die for us. Yet Jesus did just that. How good is that! I am still helpless at times but He is gracious towards me. For this I am grateful! Today represents Good Friday, the day Jesus was crucified for our sin. Today we can be free, totally free, not because we are good enough but He in me makes it so. If you do not know Him ask Him in and He will come. Amen!

But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us! Romans 5:8 HCSB Have you ever been asked to prove your love? The apostle Peter was after Jesus had risen from the dead. Jesus asked him three times and it distressed him: He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me? ” Peter was grieved that He asked him the third time, “Do you love Me? ” He said, “Lord, You know everything! You know that I love You.” “Feed My sheep,” Jesus said. John 21:17 HCSB Peter's original name was Simon. Jesus had given him the name Peter. It is interesting that here He again calls Peter Simon. Jesus was going back to where Simon came from. His father's name was John. Peter had denied Jesus three times before Jesus was crucified and His betrayal had greatly shocked and upset him. Here Jesus was healing the wound and forgiving Peter. God does not deny us. He forgives us and acknowledges us before His Father, us who call upon Him t...

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life. Romans 6:2‭-‬4 HCSB When I accept Christ I accept the work of the cross, I am baptised into the death and resurrection Jesus did for me so that I might live for Him. Living for and in Him is conscious choices daily to walk out my Christian life with intentionality. I cannot roll out of bed and humble into the day without first inviting Him to be Lord. He must be Lord! Unless He is Lord, I lose. In Him I win. He is my strength and song. Amen!

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 HCSB Wages is something we earn. We are unable to earn eternal life by our own works because we were born into and enslaved by sin. I know how hard I tried to be righteous before I yielded and asked the Lord into my life. I had been taught I must earn a relationship with God, what a burden that was. But then He came! He reached out to me and showed me He had paid the price. Freedom was mine. Now all I have to do is live in Him, in the relationship He purchased for me. Eternal life began that day. Whilst I still walk this earth it seems remote but when my eyes close for the last time, its reality is mine, forever. We were made to live in fellowship with our God. Stepping from earth into eternity is just that, a step, a blink of the eye, a moment in time. It won't be long, by heaven's standards, earth will see me shrink like a prune, but my spirit grows daily, ready fo...

We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the Lord has punished Him for the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:6 HCSB It somehow does not seem right that Jesus had to be punished because we went our own way. Yet He was. Do we consider the ramifications of our own self will? I remember, years ago watching a movie about Australian prisoners of war in a Japanese POW camp. The commamder was a ruthless man. One day it appeared that a spade went missing and so the commander wanted the person responsible to own up. No one did and so he picked on one of the men. Another man in the group knew this man had family he wanted to get home to and he himself had none. So he volunteered to take this man's place. If I remember correctly the volunteer was a Christian and it must have been around Easter time. The commander crucified this man, literally. I believe the spade was later found. The fact that an innocent man volunteered to be killed shows us a little of what C...