Romans 10:10
For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
A Scottish proverbs says "An open confession is good for the soul". The dictionary defines confession as acknowledgment; admission. It doesn't always have be a confession of guilt or sins, but just the act of opening ourselves up to bare one's soul and issues is often comforting- as opposed to concealing everything inside.
These past weeks, I'm learning to practice the act of verbal confession in my life. Especially through the darkest days of this past week. As I walk to the bus stop, I confess to myself the song which is based from Philippians 4:4 "this is the Day which the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it". I do it in full acknolwedgment that my head knowledge tell me that all things are in the Lord's control, yet my rational heart justs finds it hard to trust this truth completely. Therefore, I confess this scriptural truth because with my mouth, I will seal in faith what I choose to declare to my soul and my spirit.
Why should I, who am by nature no different from the careless and unsaved individuals at work "Rejoice in the Lord"? Because in spite of my wavering heart, my head knows that all things are under the control of and are being regulated by the Sovereign God, and because He has declared His love toward His own.
I fully know that all things are ordered by Him, and they are made to minister to our ultimate good. As Christians who have a hope in the everylasting God, the command is to "Rejoice in the Lord". There's really such a power behind this verse, simply because it is telling us that as we rejoice in the "Lord", Jesus is positioned as the master of every circumstance.
Every saturday when I enter in Living Spring's church compound, I see this verse of Ecclesiastes 3:1 which proclaims "there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven". It greatly reminds me that through the low seasons of my life and the current worries that I amble through, there is a purpose decreed by God, and not an act of random fate.
Therefore when the darkness closes in Lord, still I will say: blessed be the name of the Lord, blessed be the glorious name of the Lord. May you too choose to rejoice in the Lord, because all things work together for good of God.
blessings,
M.
"Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed." (Romans 13:11)
11 May 2008
Confess and be Saved
Romans 10:10
For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
A Scottish proverbs says "An open confession is good for the soul". The dictionary defines confession as acknowledgment; admission. It doesn't always have be a confession of guilt or sins, but just the act of opening ourselves up to bare one's soul and issues is often comforting- as opposed to concealing everything inside.
These past weeks, I'm learning to practice the act of verbal confession in my life. Especially through the darkest days of this past week. As I walk to the bus stop, I confess to myself the song which is based from Philippians 4:4 "this is the Day which the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it". I do it in full acknolwedgment that my head knowledge tell me that all things are in the Lord's control, yet my rational heart justs finds it hard to trust this truth completely. Therefore, I confess this scriptural truth because with my mouth, I will seal in faith what I choose to declare to my soul and my spirit.
Why should I, who am by nature no different from the careless and unsaved individuals at work "Rejoice in the Lord"? Because in spite of my wavering heart, my head knows that all things are under the control of and are being regulated by the Sovereign God, and because He has declared His love toward His own.
I fully know that all things are ordered by Him, and they are made to minister to our ultimate good. As Christians who have a hope in the everylasting God, the command is to "Rejoice in the Lord". There's really such a power behind this verse, simply because it is telling us that as we rejoice in the "Lord", Jesus is positioned as the master of every circumstance.
Every saturday when I enter in Living Spring's church compound, I see this verse of Ecclesiastes 3:1 which proclaims "there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven". It greatly reminds me that through the low seasons of my life and the current worries that I amble through, there is a purpose decreed by God, and not an act of random fate.
Therefore when the darkness closes in Lord, still I will say: blessed be the name of the Lord, blessed be the glorious name of the Lord. May you too choose to rejoice in the Lord, because all things work together for good of God.
blessings,
M.
"Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed." (Romans 13:11)
For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
A Scottish proverbs says "An open confession is good for the soul". The dictionary defines confession as acknowledgment; admission. It doesn't always have be a confession of guilt or sins, but just the act of opening ourselves up to bare one's soul and issues is often comforting- as opposed to concealing everything inside.
These past weeks, I'm learning to practice the act of verbal confession in my life. Especially through the darkest days of this past week. As I walk to the bus stop, I confess to myself the song which is based from Philippians 4:4 "this is the Day which the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it". I do it in full acknolwedgment that my head knowledge tell me that all things are in the Lord's control, yet my rational heart justs finds it hard to trust this truth completely. Therefore, I confess this scriptural truth because with my mouth, I will seal in faith what I choose to declare to my soul and my spirit.
Why should I, who am by nature no different from the careless and unsaved individuals at work "Rejoice in the Lord"? Because in spite of my wavering heart, my head knows that all things are under the control of and are being regulated by the Sovereign God, and because He has declared His love toward His own.
I fully know that all things are ordered by Him, and they are made to minister to our ultimate good. As Christians who have a hope in the everylasting God, the command is to "Rejoice in the Lord". There's really such a power behind this verse, simply because it is telling us that as we rejoice in the "Lord", Jesus is positioned as the master of every circumstance.
Every saturday when I enter in Living Spring's church compound, I see this verse of Ecclesiastes 3:1 which proclaims "there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven". It greatly reminds me that through the low seasons of my life and the current worries that I amble through, there is a purpose decreed by God, and not an act of random fate.
Therefore when the darkness closes in Lord, still I will say: blessed be the name of the Lord, blessed be the glorious name of the Lord. May you too choose to rejoice in the Lord, because all things work together for good of God.
blessings,
M.
"Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed." (Romans 13:11)
