AMAZING GRACE

Today message was a branch off of yesterdays....The Lord hit me so hard with Isaiah 48:9-11, I didn't make it past there.
In the book there is this quote from Nichousa Ludwig Zinzendorf, "I have but one passion - It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I an be most used in winning souls for Christ." WOW...That is my new life statement....I just want to live for Jesus!! I just want to go and do and be whatever Christs wants me to be! If that means I am in a country where my life is at risk, by God that will be home!! They always say "home is where your heart is" Well my heart is not on this earth!! My heart is in Heaven with God! So wherever his heart is there mine will be, and that will be my HOME!!
Ok so after my fire was lit with that quote...I read Ezekiel 20:5-14...And this is just telling the story of the Isrealites in a nut shell kinda....And I have heard the story over and over again, but i have never read it in Ezekiel so this was new...Well through Ezekiel i have learned alot! I like to keep things simple....but the story of leading the Isrealites is not as simple as i once thought.....The Lord always promised the Isrealites that he would deliever them and make them a great Nation...Well I always thought it was because they were after his Heart!!....NAHHH...WRONG!!! It says in verse 7 that God told them to "Cast away all the detestable things your eyes feast on, every one of you, and DO NOT defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD" ok so after God's spill the Isrealites did what they should have right...haha nope think again...and this is where it really got me....at the end of verse 8 it says that God was going to pour his wrath down on them...ok i was thinking "Yeah i would to...those dumb Isrealites didn't listen.." OUCH.....How many times does this dumby not listen!?? But you can't just stop there....The Lord goes on to say that he had to uphold his name!! So what did he do.....he brought them to the wilderness and this time he gave them the 10 commandments.....Did the Isrealites listen this time....haha NOPE!!....did the Lord send down his wrath yes!....He parted the Red Sea and kill all the Egyptians that were after them....
WOW!! Talk about a loving God!!.....That is something my mind can not comprehend! We mess up and we do the exact opposite that God tells us to and he still LOVES us....He still blesses us!!....does that mean that we should just keep doing the opposite NO!! Even the Isrealites finally got it!! How many times will it take for me, for the world to understand that God is not going anywhere and He LOVES US!!....And more than that He could very easily send His wrath but he DOESN"T!!! HE UPHOLDS HIS NAME!!! Over and over in Ezekiel and other places the Lord says MY NAME WILL NOT BE PROFANED!! Everytime we try to degrade God and tell him he is nothing....oh you got!...He will show you that he is something....Like the verse yesterday from Isaiah...I have my reputation to keep up.....I will not be second fiddle to any God or people!!

And we are Blessed that God's reputation is one of LOVE.....WOW!....Is my reputation one of LOVE....or is it one of revenge and haterd??...

Oh Lord...I cry out to you begging for forgivness because sometimes I am not known for Love....Lord help to love like you!!....UNCONDITIONALLY.... Lord I pray that i would not be like the Isrealites and not listen...but to earnestly listen to what you have to say to me... and then DO what you have instructed me to do!! Thank you Lord...for NOT pouring your wrath on me...even though I so rightly deserve it!!....Thank you for me a God of Love.....