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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Out of the Pigpen We Must Go

Praise the Lord that God's mercies are new every morning and He is waiting for all of us to come home to Him. Home to Him in our hearts, accepting Him into our lives and living that out in our daily choices.
 
He stands ready to greet us when we do come home to Him in our choices and what we choose to follow and love on a daily basis. He will not go running to the pigpen and pull us out, He won't try to force us to come to Him. He won't be around to deliver the things we want at the edge of our pigpen.
 
What He is waiting for is for us to climb out of the pigpen (the place of our daily choices that separates us from God) and walk home to Him. When we do walk home to Him we will find Him waiting with open arms to welcome us into the family of God. To love on us and make room for us in the family.
 
Part of coming home takes the realization that we can't serve both God and the things in life that we want to serve like alcohol, drugs, sex, money, food, our attitudes, and free will choices to do whatever we want whenever we want. In other words we can't be devoted to God and be constantly and daily devoted to the refrigerator, the alcohol, the other things in our lives it just doesn't work no matter how hard we try to get it to work.
 
We need to make the decision that we don't want to live outside of God any more, we want out of the pigpen we have created for ourselves. It may have been fun for awhile but its something that never lasts but the relationship we can have with God is something that will last for all eternity.
 
So out of the pigpen we must go and head for home in our hearts to where God is waiting to welcome us into the family.
 
 

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I reside in Oregon, with my husband of 32 years. I'm a mother of one and grandmother of six, counting my two newly adopted grandsons. I teach a women’s Bible Study. In June of 2007 God asked me to take with me the things I had learned in my own Christian walk to help those traveling down similar roads. A journey that started with a head injury in Jr. High School and the epilepsy it was to create later for 7 long years. One day I was given the key to my cure. In order to have the surgery to cure the 10% of my seizures that were truly epileptic I was told I had to get rid of first the 90% that were stress caused. For the next five years I took my stress issues to the Lord, leaning and relying on Him and His word as well as catchy sayings of others to see me through. As peace, obedience to God and giving up bad habits replaced worry, stubbornness and disobedience my stress seizures began to disappear. Finally I qualified for the surgery. The end result after 20 years has been being seizure free and pill free all those years. Praise the Lord. God is the cure. I can be contacted at karijo_fluffy@yahoo.com.