Day 309 - This is the air I breathe

I have life because you died for me. I breathe the saints air because you forgave me.
I am free, because of your sacrifice my Lord Jesus.

"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." 1 Peter 2:9

Day 259 - Finishing well

Today my day did not start very well, it kept going, and going, and it just went worse and worse. My heart felt as if it was sinking into a deep mire. As I got home and stared at the computer screen trying to find something to write about I realized, He, the Lord of it all is alpha and omega, therefore He is the beginning and the end, so even if my day has been that great, what matters is that at the end of it I still have my God's Grace with me, and that I can feel His love, that I can breathe the air He gave me, and that I can say, I am alive because of Him.

So many people with real problems out there, mine are nothing compared to lots of ill and suffering people that I don't have any idea about. Even those, they are not in the worse situation, because this life is temporary, but the ones who don't know who our Lord is or who refuse to recognize Him as Lord, those people really need help and I feel bad for them. At the end of a bad day, I can cry out to my God and say God, help me. But those who don't have Him, what can they do?

Day 253 - Expectations

All of us have expectations, about everyone and everything, including expectations about ourselves. The question is, do our expectations match with what we are here for?
- What are we here for? To love and give, or to be loved and receive? To serve or to be served?

- God's main goals for us here is first, to love Him, then to love others as ourselves.
Of course sometimes we have to think reasonably but if God is telling us something, for example, we have saved some money and we aren't sure what we were going to do with it, we had plans, let's say a trip, or a new couch. And then God tells us, give it to the poor, or do something specific with it. We have to do it, no question.

- It may be frustrating that we have to put our desires down in order to fulfill God's desires, but it is all worth it and in cause of a bigger and better plan.

- If our expectations are to please God to begin with, our own wants will mostly match with His, and there will be no space for frustration and it will be easier for us to let go on earthly things.

Day 252- Our two natures

What makes Jesus so special is that He has two natures, a human nature and a divine nature. He has the same struggles of a free willing human but at the same time, in His Spirit He is God, what makes Him be a perfect being.

We, on the other hand, are born with one nature, the human one. Therefore since we are born we follow the wants and needs of our human nature, we cry when we are hungry, we act on emotions and feelings until one day it all changes.
The change in that pattern is when we accept Jesus in our hearts. According to the Bible, when we accept Him as our Lord and Saviour, He lives inside of us in our Spirit. What was empty before, or even full of evil, now is clean and filled by Jesus' power.

That's the advantage of having a God living inside of us, controling our spirit and soul, of course we still have the wants and desires of our human nature but because our Spirit is in Jesus' control, we no longer fall for them, we now have the tools to control ourselves and do not be enslaved by wants and wishes.