"Giving Thanks" -To

"I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly." (Psalms 85:8) Is it even possible to impress God? Well, let's put it this way: if we can disappoint Him, then I think we can also impress Him; after all, we are His saints, and we are called to be the best that we can be. Does that mean we are called to be perfect? Yes! That's a big fat yes! The beauty of the Message is just that, we can be perfect before our Heavenly Father! Even when we mess up, we can be perfect; "Just Like It Never Even Happened." That's a quote from a service company, so I had to make it a quote. When you study the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, there are several places where you see God's concern for mistakes. Let's be perfectly honest about this, because we are going to sin, so there needs to be something in place to justify our ability to be called Saints, because saints don't sin. God will never tell us to do something that we cannot do; although, what He tells us to do, will also involve Him providing a way to do it. It is totally that simple! One of the greatest examples of that is Moses. God told Moses that he was to go before Pharaoh, that he should bring His people out of Israel. And what did Moses say? "Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?" He was totally right in asking God what he asked, because it would be suicide to try and go in their and demand that Pharaoh do anything, let alone, to let go of the workforce that help him build his cities. Without God, it would never have happened; with God, all things are possible. With God, we can do all things, even, being holy...
"So think clearly and exercise self-control. Look forward to the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. So you must live as God's obedient children. Don't slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn't know any better then. But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. For the Scriptures say, "You must be holy because I am holy."" (1 Peter 1:13-16) NLT