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Well Chloe got sick at her stomach this morning.  Mark's home with her right now.  I know what happened, we had hamburger helper last night, but substituted ground turkey.  This happened last time we ate this and I put 2 and 2 together.  See our family is so used to junk that when we try to eat healthy, our body goes into shock! Ha! 

Last night at church in Vision we talked about struggles we're all going through.  I think God intends for us to be one another's support system and accountability partners.  When a person knows they can totally honest with you, I think it can really help them.  This is a problem.  We all are either struggling, or have struggled, or someone in our family has, and we could use that to help someone who's in the same struggle.  But often we hide our past hoping that nobody will find out, because of what people might think.  If you've read the book Purpose Driven Life, then you know that God intends to use every moment of your life for His purpose. Victory, defeat, health, sickness, abortion, divorce, teen-age pregnancy, overeating, undereating, poverty, wealth.  ALL of it. Please don't deny a person who God has put in your path, the blessing of your understanding where there coming from and telling them so.  

It's so hard sometimes to know with confidence what God wants you to do in life and situations.  Sometimes I feel stuck in the middle.  I feel like certain people look at me and think I'm "Holier than thou" which I have been called by the way, and yet others say I'm liberal.  I hope I'm neither. Sometimes in life you will only be understood by God, and that's just the way it is.  I was thinking about this yesterday.  When you're standing up for what you believe in your heart is right, for the glory of God, and nobody gets it, nobody but you and God, that's what God means when he says we are blessed when we are persecuted for Him.  Blessed.  Blessed.  I'm feeling awfully blessed Praise God!!

You have to establish your own personal relationship with God.  We no longer have a mediator on earth in the form of a priest who offers up sacrifices.

This is a portion of what I taught last night.

Isaiah 1-8 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Master sitting on a throne—high, exalted!—and the train of his robes filled the Temple. Angel-seraphs hovered above him, each with six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two their feet, and with two they flew. And they called back and forth one to the other,
   Holy, Holy, Holy is God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
   His bright glory fills the whole earth.
The foundations trembled at the sound of the angel voices, and then the whole house filled with smoke.

You see we read this and realize God is holy.  (And He is.)  I think a lot of us (including me) do forget exactly what God is, and how pathetic we are sometimes.  He’s lavished us so much, that we have at time become spoiled.  So, let’s take a minute to realize who He is.  Isaiah though, because he was in Heaven, could see it for what it was, in an actual way.  So, this is what he said.

I said,   "Doom! It's Doomsday!
   I'm as good as dead!
Every word I've ever spoken is tainted—
   blasphemous even!
And the people I live with talk the same way,
   using words that corrupt and desecrate.
And here I've looked God in the face!
   The King! God-of-the-Angel-Armies!"

He realized how unworthy he was, when he saw God, and saw Himself.  Now you might say, “Well, we can’t see God the way he could.”  But, the bottom line in that in the day of Isaiah, priests and sacrifices were necessary to approach God, but now, we can freely approach Him.  Through his word, prayer, songs.  So, in actuality we can see how holy God is if we want to.  The reality is that we take it for granted, and don’t want to think about the truth sometimes.  But, the truth of who we are, and who He is isn’t to bring us guilt, it’s so that we will offer him constant praise because of what He’s done for us.  Remember, He inhabits our praise, and he’s worthy. 

Then one of the angel-seraphs flew to me. He held a live coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. He touched my mouth with the coal and said,

"Look. This coal has touched your lips.
   Gone your guilt,
   your sins wiped out."
The sad truth is many of us live as if our sins are not wiped out.  We are told they are, by Christ, but people tell us they are not.  Can you imagine how your life and my life would radically change if we lived with the actual belief that we won’t be judged for our mistakes, only what we achieve?  Only the good.  Do you live that way.  For me I don’t.  And if I did, it wouldn’t cause me to think I’d get away with sinning, it would cause me to be free to go after every good thing Christ wants to do for me. 
 

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