Devotion 1 John 7/16/21

The angel has as of this moment shown up at least six times now. Time to write that group of blog notes soon. Was so encouraging, thank you Lord!

Anyone else getting sick of their sin? (Raises hand) Hello!

It is not just a humbling thing, it makes me think of what Paul has said about it too.

Romans 7:19 sums up well just how frustrating and seemingly hopeless sin feels. It says: For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.

It paints a picture of things we might do and over time we will hate it and avoid it though we seem to lose the battle to sins.

I already shared my own sin problem in an earlier month. I had shared about it being one of my biggest regrets in life.

But believe it or not, this is something that can be overcome with the help of the Lord!

We need to realize just what our hearts if we focus on things we shouldn’t are seen to God.

He doesn’t like it. It offends Him! Maybe that will help us to feel convicted about things that we do that we are better off without.

But have hope that Jesus paid for that sin already, long ago. Isn’t that also a great reason to walk away?

We must come to the “cross” in prayer, confess what we did and also ask God to revive our life to Him.

We should praise God that because of the cross and that Jesus died for our sins and rose again showing power even over death we should no longer have those sins in our lives anymore..!

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I John 1:9 NKJV

To be forgiven by God through Jesus is such a wonderful relief. And to live for His sake is a reason to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit until the day Christ returns. Amen.

Freedom

Since 1941, we have celebrated at day annually here in the United States of America. But do we really know what true freedom is?

I hope we really will cherish our freedoms. We one day will look back and at least pray we will be as free as we were many moons ago.

Sadly there have been a lot of changes to be honest, but here I will talk about something and not go on a tangent.

July 2nd 1776, the Continental Congress voted in favor of independence. Two days later delegates from the 13 colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence, on July 4th.

This was in the United States of America’s history, a historic moment for the American Revolution.

The Declaration document was drafted by Thomas Jefferson and was a huge win for America.

We are free to live here and stay independent from the tyranny and controlling government from England, our former home. Now to have our own land from there on the ones who helped found the land’s laws and rules to live freely but be limited as far as legalities go (that’s another story. It’s crazy how rampant substance abuse and people “celebrating” were doing freely in the streets then!).

We were free and hopefully we will be as free as we can be from today onward. Let’s celebrate our freedom today! God bless you and American freedom.