"Wash My Feet, Lord"


I am a sinner, saved by grace, loving and loved by the Saviour, and striving to live the words of Scripture throughout my sanctification. I need to be convicted and changed more into the image of Christ. I desire to share with you, within this blog, all that I am daily learning. I want to serve Christ and become more and more like Him. I don’t want to live a legalistic life, but I do want to live a holy one. I want to see God receive the glory He deserves. I want to see the depth and richness of the Gospel come back to the Church. I want to see God’s people encouraging and building one another up in Christ. I want to encourage young people, and be encouraged by them, to live a set-apart life. I want to give up my life for the sake of the Kingdom and it’s King.
May you accept what is written here, if it truly honors the Lord, as coming from a heart that purely wants to honor Jesus Christ, my Savior. As He teaches me, rebukes me, corrects me, and trains me in righteousness, I hope to grow in my knowledge and love for Him. May everything that is said here bring Him glory. If I stray from the truths of Scriptures, please tell me. May my words be full of grace, as though seasoned with salt. May "the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my rock and my Redeemer.” (Ps. 19:14)

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Holiness: The Heart God Purifies


Holiness: The Heart God Purifies

By Nancy Leigh DeMoss


Recently, our family has been reading through a book by Nancy Leigh DeMoss titled “Holiness: The Heart God Purifies.” It has been a very convicting and encouraging book throughout, but the last chapter really spoke to me. So, I decided to share it with you!

“Here Comes the Bride!”

“Let us rejoice and exult and give Him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His Bride had made herself ready.” ~ The Apostle John

“Imagine for a moment…we’re seated together at a royal wedding. The invitations have been sent, all the preparations have been made, the guests have arrived, the music is playing, the flowers are spectacular- the sanctuary is decked for a king and queen. The bridegroom and his attendants take their places at the front.
The first strains of the wedding march begin to sound. We all rise.
It’s hard to see from where we’re standing off to the side. Finally, we’re able to catch a glimpse of the bride holding the arm of her father, as she begins to move down the aisle toward her bridegroom.
We crane our necks trying to take it all in. As she gets closer, we realize something is wrong! It can’t be – but yes…her veil is torn, and it’s askew on her head.
She gets closer, and we see that it’s not just her veil – her hair is matted and in disarray. She looks like she just got out of bed. And her face – it’s filthy; she has no makeup on.
As she walks by the row where we’re standing, we get a closer look at her dress. It’s unbelievable. Her gown is dishevelled and wrinkled from top to bottom. It looks like it’s been stuffed in a drawer for weeks. Not only that – the once-white dress is covered with an awful assortment of dark stains.
Have you ever seen such a sight? How can this be?
Then we see the saddest sight of all, as she approaches her bridegroom. It’s the look of profound sorrow in his eyes as he realizes that his bride – the one he loves with all his heart –didn’t care enough to get ready for the wedding.
My friend, there’s a Wedding coming.
It’s that Wedding toward which all earthly weddings are intended to point us. The bride broom is a holy Bridegroom, and He must have a holy bride.
And our Savior will have a holy bride. That’s why He loved the church and gave Himself up for her. That’s why He took all those stains and blots on Himself.

“…to make her holy…and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.”

~ Ephesians 5:26-27

My goal in life is not that I would be free from problems or pain; it’s not that I would be a best selling author or have a successful radio ministry or get invited to speak at large conferences; it’s not that I would have great relationships or be healthy and financially secure.
My deepest desire is that I would be a holy woman and that the church of Jesus Christ would be holy.
How I look forward to that day when you and I, along with all the other saints from all ages, walk together down that aisle toward our Beloved Bridegroom. I want to face Him with joy – radiant, unashamed, “dressed in His righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne.”
Are you ready for the Wedding? If not, what would you have to do to get ready? Is there a sin you need to confess and forsake? Is there a habit you need to give up –or cultivate? Is there a relationship you need to break off – or reconcile? Are there items in your possession you need to get rid of? Are there debts you need to pay? Are there people whose forgiveness you need to seek? Is there restitution you need to make?
Whatever it is, for Jesus’ sake, for the world’s sake, for His body’s sake, for you family’s sake, for your sake – do it. By His grace and the power of His Holy Spirit – do it.

Nothing, nothing, nothing could be more important. Nothing could bring Him greater glory in our world, and nothing could bring you greater joy –both now and throughout all eternity.”

~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

~2 Corinthians 7:1

We are the bride of Christ and yet, how often we live in a way that is anything but holy. May God have mercy on us. And He does have mercy on us. Just as we who are single ought to keep ourselves pure and set-apart for our future spouses, so too, in an even greater sense, we, as the body and Bride of Christ, ought to keep our lives blameless and holy and be the Bride who has “made herself ready” for the marriage of the Lamb. We have no greater Husband and Shepherd than Jesus Christ; the One who gave His life on the cross that we, His bride, might live. I know that He deserves our worship. I know that He is worthy of our lives. I pray that we would present ourselves before Him spotless, blameless, and clothed in His righteousness, for we are the Bride of Christ.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

"Christians, be troublesome to the world!"

"Christians, be troublesome to the world! O Christans, be like a burdensome stone to the world! You are not sent here to be recognized as honorable citizens of this world, to be petted and well-treated.Even Christ himself, the peaceable One, said, "I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?"What I mean is this, we are not to be quiet about our religion. The world says to us, "Hold your tongue about religion, or at least talk about it at fit times; but do not introduce it at all seasons so as to become a pest and a nuisance."I say again, and you know in what sense I mean it, be a nuisance to the world; be such a man that worldlings will be compelled to feel that there is a Christian in their midst.An officer was walking out of the royal presence on one occasion, when he tripped over his sword. The king said to him, "Your sword is rather a nuisance." "Yes," was the officer's reply, "your majesty's enemies have often said so."May you be a nuisance to the world in that sense, troublesome to the enemies of the King of kings! While your conduct should be courteous, and everything that could be desired as between man and man, yet let your testimony for Christ be given without any flinching and without any mincing of the matter."

~Charles Spurgeon

Monday, September 7, 2009

Don't Allow Sin to Destroy Your Life. Turn Away and Flee!

I found this neat video on the Rebelution. Pastor Josh Harris of Covenant Life Church gives a hilarious, yet serious example of how we ought to turn away from sin.


Do Not Forget

This passage speaks for itself and is equally relevant to our day as it was in the days of the people of Israel. May we remember all the blessings which the Lord has given us and may we not forget His faithfulness.

Deuteronomy 8

"All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your forefathers. You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD. Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.
Thus you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.
Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;
a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. When you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you. Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today; otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them, and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint. In the wilderness He fed you manna which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you in the end. Otherwise, you may say in your heart, 'My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.' But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. It shall come about if you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish. Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.”

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

The Lamb that was Slain

“Two young Moravians heard of an island in the West Indies where an atheist British owner had 2000 to 3000 slaves. And the owner had said, "No preacher, no clergyman, will ever stay on this island. If he’s shipwrecked we’ll keep him in a separate house until he has to leave; but he’s never going to talk to any of us about God. I’m through with all that nonsense." Three thousand slaves from the jungles of Africa brought to an island in the Atlantic and there to live and die without hearing of Christ.Two young Moravians heard about it. They sold themselves to the British planter and used the money they received from their sale, for he paid no more than he would for any slave, to pay their passage out to his island for he wouldn’t even transport them. As the ship left its pier in the river at Hamburg and was going out into the North Sea, carried with the tide, the Moravians had come from Herrenhut to see these two lads off, in their early twenties. Never to return again, for this wasn’t a four year term; they sold themselves into life-time slavery. Simply that as slaves, they could be as Christians where these others were. The families were there weeping, for they knew they would never see them again. And they wondered why they were going and questioned the wisdom of it. As the gap widened and the housings had been cast off and were being curled up there on the pier, and the young boys saw the widening gap, one lad with his arm liked through the arm of his fellow, raised his hand and shouted across the gap the last words that were heard from them, they were these: "MAY THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN, RECEIVE THE REWARD OF HIS SUFFERING!" This became the call of Moravian missions. And this is the only reason for being, that the Lamb that was slain, may receive the reward of His suffering.”
~ Paris Reidhead