Matthew 10:8 “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.”
Giving as Given!
Given grace
Yet lacking Care
are souls found
errant still.
Whose wayward paths
have chosen steps
repeated by…
unbroken wills.
Without remorse
nor transformation
so remain those
— error bound…
who won’t reflect
CHRIST’s perfect love!
Within them then —
no mercy found.
So give as you’ve received:
Withhold no gift
which HE bestows…
because HIS crimson-filled compassion is HIS constant overflow!
As HIServant reminded being given so much grace and mercy beyond measure,
Whitney
Devotional: 1 Peter 4:10: “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of GOD’s varied grace.”
Luke 6:38: “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be poured into your lap.”
“For the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”
Now remember! GOD spared the Ninevites by sending their enemy to preach to them.
That’s right, Jonah.
He despised them and they were a horrifically violent people. Look it up.
Point is Jonah had been given instructions and was then supernaturally protected in the whale GOD sent.
And HE’d sent it to get Jonah and take him to the shoreline of the Ninevites whom he hated with a passion.
Funny word choice perhaps.
But GOD gave Jonah the extreme privilege and experience of what every believer could benefit from. Which is!
Being perfectly shown just how intricately GOD fulfills HIS plans for each of us!
Being “proven wrong” in the most complete way!
HE brings us to an end of our flesh at times to be thoroughly convinced then of telling HIS love story to everyone — lovingly.
So! Give endless Grace and Mercy to all; look at all HE’s done for us.
Give all of yourself in HIS service and NEVER retreat from such Zeal!
Amen and amen.
2CJC 