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During this season leading up to Passover I have embraced a discipline very similar to the thirty day Advent devotions which leads up to Christmas. This new discipline is a set of "fast" cards taken from Ann Voskamp's blog which she had posted for Lent, but which I have taken as the forty days leading up to the true Passover date. This, like the Advent devotions, has been such a special time each year. A time to reflect and focus on the true meaning of each season and a time set aside daily to allow the Lord to search my heart. The card set can be found here. I have found, in my own personal life, that these times of focus and renewal are very important and help me to continue on this journey toward the Lord amidst a very fallen and broken world. It takes discipline and focus, and grace, but as we give ourselves to the Lord in these ways...He meets us there in deeper ways and we come to know Him...more. Our hearts are drawn closer as we accept His grace and follow Him to the deepest places where He would lead. ~ Let Him take you there ~ I am sharing this devotion from My Upmost for His Highest written by Oswald Chambers from my morning devotion. I pray these words bring encouragement in your journey today... Complete and Effective Divinity If we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection… --Romans 6:5 Co-Resurrection. The proof that I have experienced crucifixion with Jesus is that I have a definite likeness to Him. The Spirit of Jesus entering me rearranges my personal life before God. The resurrection of Jesus has given Him the authority to give the life of God to me, and the experiences of my life must now be built on the foundation of His life. I can have the resurrection life of Jesus here and now, and it will exhibit itself through holiness. The idea all through the apostle Paul’s writings is that after the decision to be identified with Jesus in His death has been made, the resurrection life of Jesus penetrates every bit of my human nature. It takes the omnipotence of God— His complete and effective divinity— to live the life of the Son of God in human flesh. The Holy Spirit cannot be accepted as a guest in merely one room of the house— He invades all of it. And once I decide that my “old man” (that is, my heredity of sin) should be identified with the death of Jesus, the Holy Spirit invades me. He takes charge of everything. My part is to walk in the light and to obey all that He reveals to me. Once I have made that important decision about sin, it is easy to “reckon” that I am actually “dead indeed to sin,” because I find the life of Jesus in me all the time (Romans 6:11). Just as there is only one kind of humanity, there is only one kind of holiness— the holiness of Jesus. And it is His holiness that has been given to me. God puts the holiness of His Son into me, and I belong to a new spiritual order. Oswald Chambers Lord, I pray that we take time this Passover season to pause and reflect on the true meaning of what scripture tells us of your sacrifice and how you fulfilled the Passover. I pray that we seek you with our whole heart, seeking to know you and glorify you in this fallen world as we live our lives amidst those who curse your Name. We love you...and thank you for your sacrifice and the gift of your grace that keeps us along the way. Seeking you, entirely...Amen. As Women Finding Grace ~ May the holiness of the Lord Jesus be seen and revealed in our lives and the very essence of His presence be known through our daily gifts of love to those who surround us.
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