If God doesn’t change then how does He express upsetedness of lost children. I’m thinking Jesus is Living Water and the collection of our tears because I see lots of tears here in the world and it’s going to get worse…

I specifically was reminded of how unbelievable the destruction is of the living CHILDREN of God is – by drugs, alcohol, poverty, by want, and rooted from evil. Ugh. I was driving halfway and riding the train  the rest into the city. With a known path comes unknown obstacles of people and their problems, but I was not hastled nor even begged from anyone. I was safe by situation and by Grace. I was really so sad to witness half dead and half stupor asleep people – walking dead destruction of God image-bearers by themselves and by their circumstances. Sad. How often I wonder the tears of these people’s families in addition to theirs. 

If God can’t change in Himself, but people can, think of HOW different God is from man. Now think of us completely healing IN HIM, and if we may hopefully realize that ONLY He can restore us to whole.  Only God through HIM Jesus God, being our rescue Savior, saving in HIS Plan, so no one can boast in works, is REALLY GOD. We are not. Only God saves because we can’t – and yet He can. AND GOD WANTS TO SAVE US. 

Really, our sins day to day are judged equal to each other’s sins – we ALL fall short of God. In comparison to the really sad cases, our sobriety will not get us into Heaven, only God will take us into Heaven. Our not going down destructive roads of course is best -and we will reframe our proper treatment of God’s Temple in us, and that IS what God wants to help us with – praising Him in us – raising Him and showing Him in us – best we can. Living Water Wash, Lord help us.

Perhaps reframing the Declaration of Independence is fitting here: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, [well, yes, we are equal in judgment and sin] that they are endowed by their Creator [look how Americans take these rights not always thinking of the real Creator of ‘rights’ who doesn’t give us any human right above His Righteousness] with certain unalienable Rights [yep, humans setting up human governments will see failures,  just ask Samuel about God warnings], that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” [well, then also the pursuit of destruction is a right too in human laws, sad…]…

Sad tears, for Jesus picks up the tab of destruction by sin and death – Living Water washes us because we didn’t cause ourselves to be human, even though we continue to humanly be human. Thank You Lord for the ability to wash clean and the safety in Your House, for Your reach to the garden You want us in.

Amen….  

And I did have a great time in the city, weather was hot! Walking was good exercise.

There is a section on the Declaration of Independence: “to provide new Guards for their future security.” – I would say day to day I am grateful for these and WE are BLESSED by God to be our ULTIMATE future – to grab onto in the here and now. 

Amen Amen 

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Ephesians 2:1-10

Made Alive in Christ

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.  And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

From the top section of the Declaration of Independence 1776 13 colonies separation from Great Britain: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.