r L n -- really LOVE now! : my Daily Delight: Magnifying CHRIST JESUS

Saturday, January 1, 2011

my Daily Delight: Magnifying CHRIST JESUS

Oh, MAGNIFY The LORD with me, and LET us EXALT His Name together! Oh, taste and see that The LORD is GOOD! BLESSED (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who takes refuge IN Him! (see Psalm 34)

LET those who DELIGHT in His Righteousness shout for JOY and be GLAD and say EVERmore, "GREAT is The LORD, who delights in the welfare of His servant!" DELIGHT yourself IN The LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart. (Psalms 35; 37)

WHY do i DELIGHT IN JESUS? WHY is He MOST Precious to me? WHY is He THE Treasure of my life and THE Passion of my heart?

Because HE DIED for me...while i was YET a TRULY wretched SINner.

Because HE bore ALL my SINs upon Himself and imputed (credited/attributed) to me HIS OWN Righteousness. HIS shed BLOOD cleansed and washed away my FILTHY rags of SELF-Pride, SELF-Righteousness and SELF-Sufficiency. HE made me a NEW creature -- with a NEW Heart -- BORN AGAIN of The SPIRIT of GOD.

Because HE is breathtakingly beauty-FULL -- His Countenance INdescribably attractive and ALL-together lovely (even though the prophet Isaiah said that -- in His earthly Incarnation -- the Servant-King had "nothing beautiful or majestic about His appearance, nothing to attract us to Him). Because HE has INfinite Compassion and UNfathomable TENDERness. Because HE is ALLmighty, utterly POWERful beyond man's comprehension. Because HE is faith-FULL and TRUE -- HE canNOT EVER lie and will NOT EVER break His promises. Because HE made PEACE between The FATHER and me.

Because HE IS GOOD...Perfect and Wholesome in ALL ways -- always -- forEVER and EVER more!

Because HE (with The FATHER) sent the Holy SPIRIT to be my Comforter, Counselor, Helper. HE intercedes for me. HE prays those prayers i cannot utter. HE orchestrates and causes ALL things to work together for my BEST -- not just the good enough. HIS Righteous Right Arm guards me from harm...from that father of lies, that utterly evil one. HE emPOWERs and equips me to do the work that my heavenly FATHER has ordained to accomplish through me. HE gives me DAILY Provision. HE sustains and nourishes me in each moment...breath to breath to breath.

Because HE FULLY accomplished the work of saving sinners like me. i OWE Him my ALL. HE obeyed The FATHER's Plan of SALVATION -- even the DEATH on the Cross. HE gave up His Majesty and Glory with The FATHER by HUMBLING Himself -- becoming human, born into poor surroundings, REJECTED by His own. HE who had EVERY thing... HE who was the apple of His FATHER's eye, Who was in His FATHER's bosom in PERFECT ONENESS and HOLY Intimacy, for Whom the whole Creation was made -- HE gave up ALL to prove The FATHER's LOVE for the world. JESUS DIED to exemplify TRUE AGAPE-LOVE.

Because without CHRIST's completed work on the cross, i would STILL be part of the Walking DEAD -- living a pointless, meaningless, EMPTY life! i would STILL be captive to this illusion of being alive, yet never quickened to TRUE Life. Without JESUS' Good News, i cannot call GOD my FATHER -- my Heavenly DAD; but only tremble in fear of His WRATH in the coming Day of JUDGMENT. Without CHRIST's gift of ETERNAL Life, i would be RESURRECTED in a physical ETERNAL Hell.

But i REJOICE and EXULT IN CHRIST JESUS my LORD -- my Savior, my Friend, my Good Shepherd -- GOD of my life. HE goes before me in ALL things -- even death... and grants me VICTORY over death with His promise of BODILY Resurrection. For as HE Himself defeated the grave, SO HE GIVES LIFE! in the Heavenlies to those who BELIEVE (trust in JESUS' sinLESS Life, His atoning BLOOD shed on the Cross, His Resurrection from the Dead) and willingly OBEY and FOLLOW Him, even to the uttermost parts of the earth.

My very real DELIGHT is IN JESUS, the Person who is GOD. HE is the ultimate Husband -- NEVER disappointing, ALL-ways Faithful and True. My TRUE joy is IN CHRIST -- there is NO thing, NO person, who can fulfill ALL my needs and desires. Oh, reader, DELIGHT also IN The LORD JESUS, and HE will make your heart OVERflow with DELIGHT as you delight in HIS delights.

Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together!

1 comment:

AnonymousJanuary 1, 2011 at 7:19 PM
very lovely Amen!!
Evans
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my Prayer For You

When i think of the wisdom and scope of GOD's plan, i fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. i pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources He will give you mighty inner strength through His Holy SPIRIT. i pray that CHRIST will be more and more at home in your heart as you trust in Him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of GOD's marvelous love.

And may you have the power to understand, as all GOD's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love really is. May you experience the love of CHRIST, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from GOD.

Now to Him Who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by CHRIST JESUS to all generations, forever and ever. AMEN!

(Ephesians 3:14-21)

The Great I AM

I AM the Bread of life. He who comes to Me will never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.
(John 6:35)

I AM the Light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the Light of life.
(John 8:12)

I AM the Door of the sheep. All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I AM the Door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
(John 10:7, 9)

I AM the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd gives His life for the sheep. I AM the Good Shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
(John 10:11, 14)

I AM the True Vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. I AM the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
(John 15:1, 5)

I AM the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
(John 11:25)

I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
(John 14:6)

Pilate therefore said to Him, "Are You a king then?" JESUS answered, You say rightly that I AM a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the Truth hears My voice.
(John 18:37)

LOVE is...

Though i speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, i have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

And though i have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though i have all faith, so that i could remove mountains, but have not love, i am nothing.

And though i bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though i give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

When i was a child, i spoke as a child, i understood as a child, i thought as a child; but when i became a man, i put away childish things.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now i know in part, but then i shall know just as i also am known.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

(I Corinthians 13)

Rejoice!

Rejoice in the LORD always. i will say it again: Rejoice!

Let your gentleness be evident to all. The LORD is near.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to GOD. And the peace of GOD, which transcends all understanding, will guard your heart and your mind in CHRIST JESUS.

Finally, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things.

(Philippians 4:4-8)

How Great Thou Art!

O LORD, my GOD! When i in awesome wonder consider all the works thy hands have made.
i see the stars, i hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

Then sings my soul, my Savior GOD to Thee: how great Thou art! How great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Savior GOD to Thee: how great Thou art! How great Thou art!

And when i think that GOD, His Son not sparing, sent Him to die, i scarce can take it in;
That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing, He bled and died to take away my sin.

Then sings my soul, my Savior GOD to Thee: how great Thou art! How great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Savior GOD to Thee: how great Thou art! How great Thou art!

When CHRIST shall come with shout of acclamation and take me home, what joy shall fill my heart!
Then i shall bow in humble adoration and there proclaim, my GOD, how great Thou art!

Then sings my soul, my Savior GOD to Thee: how great Thou art! How great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Savior GOD to Thee: how great Thou art! How great Thou art!

Amazing Grace

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me! i once was lost, but now am found; was blind, but now i see.

'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved; how precious did that grace appear the hour i first believed.

Through many dangers, toils and snares, i have already come; 'tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.

The LORD has promised good to me, His word my hope secures; He will my shield and portion be, as long as life endures.

Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail, and mortal life shall cease, i shall possess, within the veil, a life of joy and peace.

The world shall soon dissolve like snow, the sun refuse to shine; but GOD, who called me here below, shall be forever mine.

When we've been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun; we've no less days to sing GOD's praise than when we'd first begun.

The Holy BIBLE -- The Word of GOD

The BIBLE contains the mind of GOD, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners, and the happiness of believers. Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable. Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe, and practice it to be holy. It contains light to direct you, food to support you, and comfort to cheer you.

It is the traveler's map, the pilgrim's staff, the pilot's compass, the soldier's sword, and the CHRISTian's charter. Here is Paradise restored, Heaven opened, and the gates of hell disclosed.

CHRIST is its grand subject, our good the design, and the glory of GOD its end.

It should fill the memory, rule the heart, and guide the feet. Read it slowly, frequently, and prayerfully. It is a mine of wealth, a paradise of glory, and a river of pleasure. It is given you in life, will be opened at the judgment, and be remembered forever. It involves the highest responsibility, will reward the greatest labor, and will condemn all who trifle with its sacred contents.

(Foreword from The Gideons International)