Do we live now FOR eternal life?

Php_2:12  … work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Php 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Php 2:14  Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Php 2:15  That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Php 2:16  Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

'God’s Word must lay bare more and more of our natural life so that the work of the cross can probe deeper and deeper. That is why the cross must be borne daily. To know more of God’s will and to know more of the self, furnishes the cross increased ground to operate.'  Excerpt from 'The Spiritual Man' Watchman Nee.

Can you imagine doing 'all' things without any murmuring (aloud and to yourself silently) and without any disputing whatsoever?  Seriously. Internal murmuring goes on all the time, doesn't it? We are filled with this murmuring and disputing- and I'm not talking about riot-like disputing, but all disputing down to the smallest of disputes. We live day to day with murmuring and disputing until it has become NORMAL, yet they are far from normal. 

The excerpt above speaks of our natural life being laid bare and I believe that the above verse- about doing ALL things without murmuring and disputing- is a huge revelation for us.  We need to recognize the natural man in us and that natural self LOVES to murmur and dispute- again- I'm NOT talking about being the loudest murmurer to exist or the biggest disputer of all time.  We focus on ourselves to such a degree that we are slighted not just by others- but by things that interfere with our "ME" time, things that mess up our plans (self-made plans or otherwise.). We go from day to day and make note of most of the tiny irritants that have affected our well-being.   And our 'well-being' is that state of being which we've predetermined gives us the ease of life we believe we deserve. We've had a lousy day when our well-being is disturbed. We've had an amazing day when we've had the least amount of things irritating us and upset our 'well-being'.  From one moment to the next we are in a state of 'well-being' or 'not quite so well-being'.  We have made our 'well-being' our criteria for our lives. THE FOCUS is on ourselves! 

How are you today?  How is your day going? Having a good day? All this reinforces our self-focus, doesn't it? How do you feel today?  How is life?  Focus on self.  Even when we are asking another these questions we are drawing their attention where? To themselves.  I'm not saying we aren't to be polite, I'm saying society has made it NORMAL for us to focus on our well-being.  SELF FOCUS.

We need the many ways we are self-focused exposed to us so we may pray for deliverance from them. 

Our murmuring and disputing will often have its roots in our natural self, our flesh nature and NOT the spirit.

Truly this DAILY cross we are to carry is our DAILY work towards exposing all that would keep us from Christ.

We are to live day to day IN CHRIST- never putting off our Christianity, never setting it aside for a while as we indulge ourselves in non-Christian behavior.

If HEAVEN and ETERNAL LIFE with Christ is our HOPE, our TRUE HOPE, then living for CHRIST now should be our REALITY!   If we only hope for an eternal life with Christ as some sort of reward for our existing, then we are going to be in for a shocking surprise. 

We've made eternal life an abstract thought, a back burner idea, something to tuck away and think about from time to time while we live our current life.  We don't truly believe that we are STRANGERS and PILGRIMS here on earth living for a better place, a better home.  We believe THIS is our home and we set about living our lives accordingly.  If we TRULY believed we were strangers and pilgrims here, would we do so much to live for here and so very little for our eternal life?

If people live for eternal life- shouldn't they be active disciples for eternal life? 

More on this tomorrow by the GRACE and WILL of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!!

Easily offended, self-indulgent- Cross Bearing Opportunity.

'The cross which condemned sin to death is an accomplished fact: all which remains for us to do is to acknowledge and receive it. But the cross through which we forfeit our soul life is different. Self-denial is not a matter already and completely accomplished; this we must experience daily.'

The Spiritual Man- Watchman Nee

Gal 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Luk_9:23  And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

The power that enable us to choose God not once, but daily- hourly, minutely, is the same power that leaves us room to choose otherwise.

Think about it for a moment. If in a moment of -once and forever choosing - your choice was sin and you were never able to find forgiveness after that, how horrific would that be?

We long to be able to choose to follow Christ once and forever never to sin again, never to leave His path, never to lose Him. We wish the power of choice was taken away after we make that choice so that it'd be impossible for us to ever stray from Him.

Yet in desiring that choice as long as sin exists is also desiring that once and forever choice to sin.  We can't have one without the other.

We can't have our power of choice stripped from us.

The angels had to make a choice- a once and forever choice without chance of any change once that choice was made. They had their moment of decision and 1/3 chose to leave God, and 2/3 chose to remain with God.  Those 1/3 who chose to leave God made that forever choice and have no chance at all whatsoever to be God's again.

We all have a choice to make, and in making that choice we then have a daily choice to live by. And as long as we live and have our faculties of discernment we must make that daily choice. The daily choice consisting of living each day by taking up our cross no matter what that cross may be.  Taking up that cross and choosing the path God that lays before us -over the path that satan invites us to walk down. Ours isn't an angel choice but a human choice given to us by God made flesh. Our power of choosing comes with choosing to live in Christ, surrendered to Christ. 

Satan will lay out traps for us on a daily basis using all his wiles to do so. The first trap of the day could be as simple as finding a piece of dirty laundry on the floor instead of the hamper- something that has been known to irritate you into lashing out at the laundry offender. 

So there you have it, a cross to pick up or ignore.  Do you deal with the laundry situation in a way that you imagine Christ would have you deal with it, or do you choose to use a way Satan would enjoy witnessing?

You say you have a right to be angry, upset, or generally miffed at the offender. Yes, there is such a thing as righteous indignation- a right to be angry, but how often does that righteous indignation lead us down the path of unrighteous action?

Ask yourself why you are angry? Is the offensive piece of laundry defying God in any way? Probably not. Is the dirty laundry offending you? If you answer yes, how is it offending you?  Do you instantly think that you should NOT have to pick up someone else's dirty laundry? That the offender should pick up after themselves? That by leaving the laundry right there on the floor where it doesn't belong you are being shown a lack of respect?  Is your SELF offended by the laundry offender? It could be any number of these reasons, or all of them, right? You want dirty laundry in its rightful place - the hamper. It's your desire for it to be where you've determined it belongs.  Do you happen to notice the number of the word 'you' being used?

Is it a fact the dirty laundry belongs in the laundry hamper? YES.

Is it a fact that not everyone feels an inclination to be tidy? YES.

Is that laundry a deciding factor on Your eternal life? Maybe.

What? Maybe? Why- maybe? Because you could let that irritant infuriate you into acting completely unloving towards another person. 

Is there a way to deal with that dirty laundry without letting yourself get caught up in going overboard and being hurtful towards another?  Yes. You could be a matter-of-fact in asking the person to pick up the laundry, without any judgment on their lack of respect towards you. You could pick up the laundry yourself- it is after all only a piece of clothing out of place for whatever reason the offender had. And I'm sure there are even more ways to deal with the situation.

The point being made here, or trying to be made, is satan using our lives to get us to focus on ourselves so that we become easily offended by any number of things. Whether it is dirty laundry strewn about the floor out of its proper place, or dirty dishes, or an unwashed cupboard after a very messy bout of snack making, truly no matter what the situation- when we perceive we are being disrespected, used, not taken into consideration, overlooked, and so on and so forth we are focusing on OURSELVES and esteeming ourselves into a place where we can be offended, hurt, hurtful and more.  

THESE are some of the crosses we must bear and if you think I'm kidding, I'm not.  SELF focus is feeding the soul NOT the spirit! SELF focus on many levels is feeding our natural man, our flesh nature.

I've heard it said and I believe it, we are living in the generation of the easily offended. We are so easily offended because we've esteemed ourselves into positions much higher than every intended.

Satan is HARD at work putting obstacles in our way. We have many chances to pick up our daily cross and bear the MANY, MANY undeserved OFFENSES just as Jesus endure UNDESERVED offenses in a way we can't begin to fully fathom. And every time we get it in our heads that we do NOT deserve to be treated in any certain way, we MUST consider how Jesus was treated- DID HE DESERVE IT?  Never, in absolutely no way did Jesus deserve any of the many abuses He suffered yet He ENDURED all the way to the cross.  He had more right, more justification than any of us ever could have to be offended by the abuse, yet He chose a different way and He showed us that way- through HIM.

By HIS AMAZING GRACE, HIS LOVE!  In the name of our glorious Savior, Jesus Christ, our LORD forevermore! 

Do you ignore your cross?

'If in the disposition which Christ displayed in relation to His cross we are willing to take up ours, then we shall find that the power of His cross abides in us and enables us to lose our natural life.

Each time the cross is taken up, each time does the soul life suffer loss.

Each time the cross is circumvented, each time is the soul life fed and preserved.'    - Watchman Nee - The Spiritual Man.

We need to lose our natural life because of this- 

1Co_2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

If we cling to our natural life, holding fast to our natural man, then we CANNOT receive the things of the SPIRIT of GOD.

Isn't that what we want? Don't we want the things of the Spirit of God? If we don't then why are we bothering with any of this- stop reading now and go do whatever it is you want to do without the Spirit of God. I want the things of the SPIRIT of GOD, but I cannot receive them with my natural man in control!  The things of the Spirit are foolishness to our natural man. We CANNOT know  the things of the Spirit of God, we can't receive them, we can't know them in our natural state! So, YES, we need to LOSE our natural life!

The power of Jesus Christ's cross will abide in us and we WILL lose that natural self.

We have a natural self that the soul can choose to indulge in.  The spirit life in us needs the Spirit of God and does NOT need the natural life.  When the soul life indulges in the fleshy, natural temptations and sin is conceived we are wounding the spirit in us.

When Watchman Nee says this--

'Each time the cross is taken up, each time does the soul life suffer loss.

Each time the cross is circumvented, each time is the soul life fed and preserved.'

Our natural life suffers a loss when we TAKE up the cross that Christ has prepared for us individually, the cross that will forever be connected to HIS cross.  We NEED the natural life to suffer a loss, we need it desperately. 

When we CIRCUMVENT the cross, when we refuse to take up the cross presented to us and skirt around it to indulge in our natural life- we are hurting the spirit and feeding the natural life we need to LOSE.  How often we are presented with our daily cross only to ignore it. We must stop ignoring our cross!

More tomorrow by the grace of our LORD, our SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST!

Self-Denial- A learning experience.

Another excerpt from-

The Spiritual Man- Watchman Nee

(Keep in mind what we've been studying the last few days. If you haven't been following the little study please go back the last few days, maybe a week and read it if you can.  We're discussing our need of humbling, our need of carrying our cross daily, our need of LIVING in Christ fully.)

'If in the disposition which Christ displayed in relation to His cross we are willing to take up ours, then we shall find that the power of His cross abides in us and enables us to lose our natural life.

Each time the cross is taken up, each time does the soul life suffer loss.

Each time the cross is circumvented, each time is the soul life fed and preserved.

The Lord Jesus does not imply that dealing with our natural inclinations is a once for all matter. We find in Luke the word “daily” is added to our Lord’s call to take up the cross.

Cross-bearing is continuous.

The cross which condemned sin to death is an accomplished fact: all which remains for us to do is to acknowledge and receive it. But the cross through which we forfeit our soul life is different.

Self-denial is not a matter already and completely accomplished; this we must experience daily.

Now this does not mean that the soul life will never be lost or only be lost slowly. It simply bespeaks the fact that the cross which deals with the soul life operates differently from that which deals with sin. And the reason? Because death towards sin is accomplished for us by Christ: when He died, we died with Him. But the denial of the soul life is not an accomplished matter.

We are required to take up our own cross daily by the power of the cross of Christ and determine daily to deny self—until it is lost.

Renunciation of our natural life is not something which is done once and forever. As for sin, we only need take the ground of the cross (Rom. 6.6) and immediately we are freed from its power and our servitude to it. In a moment this can be experienced with a full and perfect victory. But the self life must be overcome step by step.

The deeper the Word of God penetrates (Heb. 4.12), the deeper works the cross and the further the Holy Spirit completes the union of the life of our spirit with the Lord Jesus.

How can believers deny the self when it is yet unknown to them? They can deny only that part of the soul life which they already recognize. God’s Word must lay bare more and more of our natural life so that the work of the cross can probe deeper and deeper. That is why the cross must be borne daily. To know more of God’s will and to know more of the self- furnishes the cross increased ground to operate.'

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Tomorrow we'll study this more in-depth. For now, please read this a few times, soak it in. Look up the Bible verse if you can.

By the grace of God we have to learn this, study this, please God, please help us to learn what we need to! Help us to learn the truth of YOUR WORD! Guide us, help us!

All through the name of our Savior, our Lord, Jesus Christ, now and forever!

AMEN.

No two crosses we bear are the same.

Luk_9:23  And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

'… The Lord says to us that this cross is ours, for we each receive from God our own particular cross. That is what we ought to bear. Although it is our cross, it nevertheless is closely connected with the cross of the Lord. '

P198 The Spiritual Man  - by Watchman Nee

This is truth.

We each have our own cross, to say otherwise is to lie.  I can look at you and imagine what your cross may be- there may be some obvious clues to what your cross may look like - outward afflictions and such, but I can't know truly what your cross is like to bear.  We each carry weight differently- mentally, emotionally and even physically.  If I carried twenty lbs of cat food and you carry the same twenty lbs of cat food and your muscles are stronger than mine, then it would be easier for you to carry than for me.  Emotionally something could affect you more than me, or me more than you- the gauge we go by is truly ours and no others. There can't be a true standard. Society tries to imagine their standards based upon majority reactions, and test results and other data they collect and they make it the norm so that people tend to forget how truly individual we are in so many ways. No two people can ever experience life in the same way simply because we are not ever the same- not ever.  Our crosses are different, but we ALL have a cross.

However, not all of us TAKE UP the cross that is ours.

Jesus said- IF…    IF any man -  meaning if WE choose to follow Him then we choose to DENY ourselves, we TAKE up our cross DAILY and we follow Him.

The cross is the life we choose to give up- the flesh life. We take up all the hardship of DENYING ourselves and there are plenty of them. We take up the cross of recognizing all the Spirit revealed flesh lusts in our lives and in the recognition we submit to the spirit denying those flesh lusts. Daily we will be allowed to see the SELF we must give up and that self is a terrible thing. We bear the cross of being UNLIKE those who live to the flesh.  There is persecution, there is ostracizing, there is awkwardness, there is misunderstanding, there is ridicule, there is death for those who choose to follow Christ. We take up a cross, we follow Christ not to receive ANY earthly reward whatsoever! We do NOT follow Christ to have a life of ease, to have a hotline to heaven for prayers to be answered in our favor.  When we choose to follow Christ we must comprehend that we are choosing a life that will be ANYTHING BUT EASY.

If we learn to deny ourselves, to take up our cross we understand that our HOPE is in CHRIST'S life, in the life HE PROMISES us, not in this life. 

We are taking up the cross of our Savior- His cross was one of self-denial, He lived solely for OTHERS and He died for others.

Please LORD, please.  My heart cries out to You, please let the Holy Spirit utter the things I can't begin to comprehend. Please.

All in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ OUR LORD now and forever and ever!

Please.

Thy will be done.

Are you a cross bearer?

Luk_9:23  And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Luk 9:24  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

Luk 9:25  For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

What does it mean to take up our cross.

A cross is -

Definition- an upright wooden post with a shorter post fixed across it at right angles toward the top, on which, formerly, people were nailed or hanged in public executions

When we take up our cross we are putting on ourselves the weight of our SELF death.

Remember this--

Joh 19:16  Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.

Joh 19:17  And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha

Jesus bore His own cross until He could bear it no longer.

Luk 23:26  And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.

The weight of the cross, the instrument of His impending death, lay upon His wounded, bleeding shoulders. 

Bearing a cross, when we say those words- or these words-  'I have a cross to bear.'  We know it means that what we are bearing is a heavy weight, a burden of some kind.  If I tell you-  "That's your cross to bear." - I mean that's your weight, your burden to deal with.

Picking up our cross daily.  Each new day we have a cross we have to bear. We have a burden, we have a weight, we have an instrument of death - OUR instrument of death to endure.

Does it sound like something pleasant?

Luk_9:23  And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

It's not pleasant at all. We are to DENY ourselves.  What's it mean to deny ourselves?  When you deny yourself you are giving something up, not partaking of something.  What are ways you can deny yourself?

Tit 2:12  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Tit 2:13  Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ

We are to deny- UNGODLINESS.

We are to deny- WORLDLY LUSTS.

We should- LIVE SOBERLY.

We Should- LIVE RIGHTEOUSLY.

We should0 LIVE GODLY.

And to live soberly, righteously, and godly we have to deny our ungodly ways - ALL OF THEM and we have to deny ALL our worldly lusts.

Do we comprehend the scope of our cross, of all we need to deny ourselves?  Or are we too busy indulging ourselves without a single thought of denial? 

Jesus said- 'take up his cross daily'

Jesus said- 'deny himself'

WHY would our Savior say these things if we were simply to enjoy any and all things believing that if we deny ourselves we are somehow trying to save ourselves, working for our salvation.

Php_2:12  Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

We are to work out our own salvation and do it with FEAR and TREMBLING.

We work it out not with the ability to save ourselves but the with the ability to put ourselves where we can be saved. The choices we make - this is an action we need to commit.

Please, read the following verses, we'll be studying a lot more of this by the grace of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!

Help us, teach us LORD!  TEACH US. Please, LORD, save us- we believe… HELP OUR UNBELIEF!!!!!

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1Co 15:30  And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?

1Co 15:31  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Luk 14:26  If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Luk 14:27  And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

Mat 10:38  And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

Mat 10:39  He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Mat 16:22  Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.

Mat 16:23  But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

Mat 16:24  Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Mat 16:25  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

Mar 8:34  And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Mar 8:35  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.

Mar 8:36  For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Mar 8:37  Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Mar 8:38  Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Joh 12:25  He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Joh 12:26  If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

Rom 8:13  For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Col 3:5  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry

Tit 2:12  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Tit 2:13  Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ

Self must die, crucified with Christ.

Quote from yesterday- studied more today by God's will--

'God’s purpose cannot be accomplished as long as Satan continues to find opportunity to work through that soul life which remains uncommitted to the death of the cross. Self-pity, self-love, fear of suffering, withdrawal from the cross: these are some of the manifestations of soul life, for its prime motivation is self-preservation. It is exceedingly reluctant to endure any loss. This is precisely why the Lord summons us to deny self and take up our cross so as to crush our natural life. Every cross which passes before us beckons us to forsake ourselves. We should not harbor any self-love but lay down our lives by the power of God. The Lord says to us that this cross is ours, for we each receive from God our own particular cross. That is what we ought to bear. Although it is our cross, it nevertheless is closely connected with the cross of the Lord. '

Are we committed to the death of the cross-

Gal 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Are we crucified with Christ?

We must be.

Yet we live.

BUT

It's NOT us who live it is CHRIST!

This life we live in our flesh…

We have to live by FAITH in the Son of God who loves us, and died for us.

WE must be crucified with Christ.  Truly part of us must be crucified and obviously NOT our body, our flesh.  We couldn't LIVE at all if we took it literally in the physical sense. Some part of us MUST be crucified. There is a part of us that can't live, a very real part of us. What part?!

Gal 5:24  And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

We must crucify the FLESH (no, not hanging ourselves on a cross) the flesh nature - the AFFECTIONS, the LUSTS.

Rom 6:4  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Rom 6:5  For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Rom 6:6  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Gal 5:16  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Gal 5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

We have to WALK IN THE SPIRIT - and only then will we NOT fulfill the lusts of our flesh nature.

Our flesh nature has to die.

We have to DIE DAILY.

1Co_15:31  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

2Co 4:10  Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

2Co 4:11  For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

Luk_9:23  And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

DENY ourselves - taking up the cross DAILY- Follow CHRIST.

If we are to DIE daily shouldn't this be a goal of ours?  A very serious goal.  Upon waking, shouldn't we seriously think about dying to self?  Awake to die to our flesh nature. Awake to realize that our fleshy desires must die. Awake and know that any selfish, self-centered, self-severing desire we may have are to perish. Submitting ourselves to GOD, submitting ourselves to the Holy Spirit, asking God to live in US, to help us to live for Him, for His will, for His glory and not for our own. 

We have to turn off the SELF focus!!!!!!!

But how.

May we learn how through our God.

More on this tomorrow by HIS WILL!

In Jesus always!