For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. - Psalm 62:1
In God, and in God alone, and in no other, and in nothing else can our souls, our inner most being, that which we are inside ourselves, only in the Lord God alone can our souls commune.
Apart from Christ our inner most being is actually spiritually dead, dead souls are like dead people, and dead people just simply do not communicate at all, they don't communicate, because they cannot, they are dead.
Once the Lord comes and breathes His Holy Spirit over us and on us our souls come to life, and immediately like newborn babies who wait for their mothers, we wait for our heavenly Father!
Our very salvation comes from God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God brings His salvation to us in a more certain way than a mother feeds her newborn baby. God's care for us, his newborn children is more loving and caring than the most loving parent could ever possibly be.
That may be hard to grasp for some, but it is meant as an encouragement, and assurance, a comfort.
We need never fear the Lord and His love for us.
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Our great refuge!
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. - Psalm 46:1
The Scripture makes very clear to us in this verse, that God, our God, the Lord, the Creator of the universe, he alone is where we find refuge!
Refuge from our guilt, our sin, our inner struggle, our weaknesses, we can flee to him for refuge, for safety for comfort for consolation.
Our God will have compassion on us when we turn to him for help. He will keep us safe, he will keep our souls safe and secure, in him we are all refugees looking to him for sanctuary. We go to him and plead for asylum from the tyranny of our own transgressions.
God gives us all the strength we need, in our weakness he is strong, we have no strength but for him, and him alone, and oh what a Savior, He rescues us when we are in the direst trouble, when we were at our worst, when we are beyond help and hope, he came to help us.
May he be our comfort and our rest,
in Jesus name, Amen!
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Where does joy come from?
17 Though the fig tree should not blossom,
nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. - Habakkuk 3:17-18
Rejoice in the Lord no matter what your circumstances are, our joy is in Him, not in what we have.
nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. - Habakkuk 3:17-18
Rejoice in the Lord no matter what your circumstances are, our joy is in Him, not in what we have.
Our joy is in the Lord and in what he has done for us in Christ Jesus!
Friday, April 10, 2015
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
The resurrection of Jesus
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. Acts 2:24
Hallelujah for the resurrection of Jesus, it was impossible for death to keep Jesus in the grave, to keep him in its grip!
God the Father did the impossible, he raised Jesus to life again, thereby vindicating the perfect righteousness and sinlessness of Jesus life. Jesus who never sinned could not be killed either, he gave up his life! He took our sin upon himself and suffered death in our place, so that we by God's grace could be forgiven!
The resurrection of Jesus forever silences his all his critics, whatever anyone ever says about Jesus that contradicts what Jesus says about himself, must be submitted to the acid test, surely the one resurrected is the one God the Father has accepted as true and faithful. Jesus is the way the truth and the life!
May we all continue to rejoice in the resurrection everyday of the year!
Pastor Gary Morrison
Hallelujah for the resurrection of Jesus, it was impossible for death to keep Jesus in the grave, to keep him in its grip!
God the Father did the impossible, he raised Jesus to life again, thereby vindicating the perfect righteousness and sinlessness of Jesus life. Jesus who never sinned could not be killed either, he gave up his life! He took our sin upon himself and suffered death in our place, so that we by God's grace could be forgiven!
The resurrection of Jesus forever silences his all his critics, whatever anyone ever says about Jesus that contradicts what Jesus says about himself, must be submitted to the acid test, surely the one resurrected is the one God the Father has accepted as true and faithful. Jesus is the way the truth and the life!
May we all continue to rejoice in the resurrection everyday of the year!
Pastor Gary Morrison
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
The death of Christ.
Luke 23:44
It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, 45 while the sun's light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. 46 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last. 47 Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent!”48 And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts. 49 And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching these things.
Its Easter time again, its that time of year we celebrate the Supreme Sacrifice of God the Son for the forgiveness of our sins.
This season is actually more important, more holy to us than Christmas is! Yes the world has much more emphasis on Christmas, and the true meaning of Christ's coming to earth gets lost behind a flurry of gift giving and receiving.
At Easter there is no hiding, not even the chocolate eggs can obscure the terrible price God Himself paid for our sin, this was the great day of reckoning, a supreme demonstration of the self-sacrificial love of our God, Father Son and Holy Spirit, as the Lord Jesus stepped into the breach.
Yes not only the supreme demonstration of love, but also God's supreme demonstration of His Holy wrath against sin! He did not spare His Son the torment of taking sin upon himself and paying the price for our redemption in His death. God's Holy hatred of sin was punished to the full extent that His infallible law and His righteousness demanded.
What the Roman Centurion said what was absolutely true about Jesus, he had seen many people die in all kinds of ways as a soldier of the Empire. In Jesus however he saw someone die as he had never seen before, the manner of Jesus' death made huge impression on him, yes Jesus was innocent, he even died the death of an innocent.
What impression, what impact will the death of Jesus have on you over this period of time, if it is not life changing, then pray to God that he will still have mercy!
He is a merciful God, not willing that any should perish in their sin!
It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, 45 while the sun's light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. 46 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last. 47 Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent!”48 And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts. 49 And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching these things.
Its Easter time again, its that time of year we celebrate the Supreme Sacrifice of God the Son for the forgiveness of our sins.
This season is actually more important, more holy to us than Christmas is! Yes the world has much more emphasis on Christmas, and the true meaning of Christ's coming to earth gets lost behind a flurry of gift giving and receiving.
At Easter there is no hiding, not even the chocolate eggs can obscure the terrible price God Himself paid for our sin, this was the great day of reckoning, a supreme demonstration of the self-sacrificial love of our God, Father Son and Holy Spirit, as the Lord Jesus stepped into the breach.
Yes not only the supreme demonstration of love, but also God's supreme demonstration of His Holy wrath against sin! He did not spare His Son the torment of taking sin upon himself and paying the price for our redemption in His death. God's Holy hatred of sin was punished to the full extent that His infallible law and His righteousness demanded.
What the Roman Centurion said what was absolutely true about Jesus, he had seen many people die in all kinds of ways as a soldier of the Empire. In Jesus however he saw someone die as he had never seen before, the manner of Jesus' death made huge impression on him, yes Jesus was innocent, he even died the death of an innocent.
What impression, what impact will the death of Jesus have on you over this period of time, if it is not life changing, then pray to God that he will still have mercy!
He is a merciful God, not willing that any should perish in their sin!
Sunday, March 29, 2015
The Lord is my Shepherd
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Psalms 23:1
A passage we all know very well, and it is a text that is very comforting to us when we hear it.
The Lord God, Creator of the Universe and everything in it, God All-powerful, Omni-potent, and he desires us to see His as a Shepherd, as our shepherd.
Being a Shepherd is and was never was a very glamorous job, in fact it cannot even be described as a desirable job by any stretch of the imagination. Sheep have a predisposition to scatter, to wander off on their own and get into trouble or danger, to get separated from the rest of the flock, to get tangled up in overhanging branches or bushes. Sheep need constant watching, it is a 24 hour job, and thankless task, and dangerous job, and one with little reward for the shepherd. A shepherd is not a harsh dictator, a merciless tyrant, and unfeeling master. A shepherd gives names to all his sheep and knows each one and calls each one by name, a shepherd speaks gently and softly to the sheep under his care, a shepherd does not hesitate to place himself in danger in order to protect his flock from any harm. A shepherd leads from the front, waking out ahead of and guiding his sheep to pleasant pastures and a good supply of fresh water. A shepherd takes care of the needs of his sheep.
Jesus is our good Shepherd, he knows us each by name, he calls us to himself, he has gone on ahead of us, and He has laid down his life for us. He saved us from our sin, and from the consequences of that sin, which is death and eternal separation from God. Jesus has provided full and final salvation for us.
Is Jesus your Shepherd?
May he lead and guide you from this day forward as your ever loving Shepherd
Psalms 23:1
A passage we all know very well, and it is a text that is very comforting to us when we hear it.
The Lord God, Creator of the Universe and everything in it, God All-powerful, Omni-potent, and he desires us to see His as a Shepherd, as our shepherd.
Being a Shepherd is and was never was a very glamorous job, in fact it cannot even be described as a desirable job by any stretch of the imagination. Sheep have a predisposition to scatter, to wander off on their own and get into trouble or danger, to get separated from the rest of the flock, to get tangled up in overhanging branches or bushes. Sheep need constant watching, it is a 24 hour job, and thankless task, and dangerous job, and one with little reward for the shepherd. A shepherd is not a harsh dictator, a merciless tyrant, and unfeeling master. A shepherd gives names to all his sheep and knows each one and calls each one by name, a shepherd speaks gently and softly to the sheep under his care, a shepherd does not hesitate to place himself in danger in order to protect his flock from any harm. A shepherd leads from the front, waking out ahead of and guiding his sheep to pleasant pastures and a good supply of fresh water. A shepherd takes care of the needs of his sheep.
Jesus is our good Shepherd, he knows us each by name, he calls us to himself, he has gone on ahead of us, and He has laid down his life for us. He saved us from our sin, and from the consequences of that sin, which is death and eternal separation from God. Jesus has provided full and final salvation for us.
Is Jesus your Shepherd?
May he lead and guide you from this day forward as your ever loving Shepherd
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