Cheryl O
Cheryl O
Registered: October 2007
Location: Burbank, CA
Posts: 131
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Once they believed fervently and worshiped honestly. But now they have grown up and decided that they want to live life their own way. They have disowned the faith of their youth.
Rex and I have faith that they will come back, but sometimes I shudder when I read in Hebrews 2:1-3, “We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift
away. For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation?.” And in chapter 6:4-6, “It is impossible for those who
have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.”
So I cling to these promises and pray for God to fulfill them:
Jeremiah 31:15-17 (the Message)
Again, God's Message:
"Listen to this! Laments coming out of Ramah,
wild and bitter weeping.
It's Rachel weeping for her children, Rachel refusing all solace.
Her children are gone, gone—long gone into exile."
But God says, "Stop your incessant weeping, hold back your tears.
Collect wages from your grief work." God's Decree.
"They'll be coming back home! There's hope for your children." God's Decree.
Isaiah 55:8-11 (The Message)
"I don't think the way you think. The way you work isn't the way I work." God's Decree.
"For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think.
Just as rain and snow descend from the skies and don't go back until they've watered the earth,
Doing their work of making things grow and blossom, producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry, So will the words that come out of my mouth not come back empty-handed.
They'll do the work I sent them to do, they'll complete the assignment I gave them.
Credits:
Amanda Lee Fall Flourishes Leaf Side Swirl
Background Paper DCD Harvest Time Green Solid
Font: Apple Chancery
Photo taken at Teen Challenge, Riverside 11/22/02
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