"HEY YOU!"

"The LORD is their strength, and He is the saving strength of His anointed." (Psalms 28:8) Don't you know it's time to praise the Lord! The Lord has said, "I have chosen you; you did not choose me". So guess what? He's got your back!!! Sometimes we need to be reminded Who it is that we serve; He is not just the One who has saved us, He's also the One who has called us out from among the dead; the One Who choose you as His child, and said, "Come forth!" It really takes a certain amount of strength to pull yourself up out of the grave, but that's not what we have done; it was Jesus who has done this; it was Him who opened the prison door and set the captives free! Why me Lord? Is that what you find yourself asking from time to time? Well, if so, and if you really must know, it's because He loves you! Plain and Simple; God Loves You!!! I am one of these that believes God calls everyone at one time or another in their life; some He calls more times than others, and some He calls with a louder voice; but everyone is called in one way or another. The problem that exist in the hearts of those that do not answer the call, is that they either do not believe it is His voice, or if they do, they do not want to answer because they love their sin. There is a certain amount of power in sin; it's talons get a grip around our hearts, and it becomes a fortress in and of it's self. But that is one of the things that Jesus died for! He did not just die so that we could be forgive of our sins; He died so that we might be set free from sin also; that sin and death would no longer have us bound within this mortal shell, and that by His Spirit, we could, and we should, be set free! Now guess what else! If you are not set free, then it's because you have chosen not to be..."But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons, and because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?" (Galatians 4:4-9)