Love won me over!

It was 21 years ago that I went public with my decision to follow Christ and was baptized on a Good Friday like this one. 

It was His love that won me over! 

I had realized at a tender age that the love He has for me was as matchless then as it is now; a reality that has inspired me through the decades to continually offer up my heart to Him.

I don't have a romantic story to tell with a happily ever after at every turn, in fact I often times feel like we are misfits because together we weather ups and downs as MY missteps mount with age. So I thank God He still has loved me enough not to leave me! My growing pains with God actually make me love Him more because I realize each day that His love restores, rejuvenates and redeems all that I am. Oh His loves demands that I am better each day and oh how I want to please Him by being just that! 

Initially when we are found by God we think ourselves the gift to Him and wait for Him to shower us with love but as the relationship grows we realize that the real gift is God and we begin to desire, as we do with those we love, to express our love for Him through our obedience and to use our initiative to make Him smile! After all what good is the created if it does not serve the Creator's purpose?

As the years go on I tighten my grip on His hand for I have quickly learned that without Him I am empty and life is purposeless. Every thing that I am, every role that I play finds meaning in Jesus Christ alone. I cannot separate Him from my life at all...whispers, I wouldn't want to.

My prayer on this another anniversary is that I will grow to love Him more, that I will continue to be transformed by His Spirit in me through the renewing of my mind and that my journey with Jesus will become a guidepost for those around me especially my children so that they may encounter God through me and in me.

Thank you Lord for saving my soul! I am yours! Forever.

#good #friday #musings

"But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us."
Romans 5:8 AMP 

Until next time,
EJ
Onward & Live IN Purpose