Scott and Chuck, thank you for those kind words. Truth is, its not me, because I can see the change Christ has made in this life.
Night and day, even in Genesis the night came first, amazing ain't it?
(Eph 5:2) and walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
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for you then were darkness, but are now light in the Lord; walk as children of light.
Here are some cool words from our God in Isiah, do we have the eyes to see?
(Isa 58:5) Is this like the fast I will choose, a day for a man to afflict his soul? To bow his head down like a bulrush, and he spreads sackcloth and ashes? Will you call to this as a fast and a day of delight to Jehovah?
(Isa 58:6) Is this not the fast I have chosen: to open bands of wickedness, to undo thongs of the yoke, and to send out the oppressed ones free; even that you pull off every yoke?
(Isa 58:7) Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, that you should bring the wandering poor home? When will you see the naked and cover him, and you will not hide yourself from your flesh?
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Then your light shall break as the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Jehovah shall gather you.
(Isa 58:9) Then you shall call, and Jehovah will answer; you shall cry, and He shall say, Here I am. If you put the yoke away from among you, the sending out of the finger, and the speaking of iniquity;
(Isa 58:10) and if you let out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then your light shall rise in the darkness, and your gloom shall be as the noonday.
(Isa 58:11) And Jehovah shall always guide you, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.
(Isa 58:12) And those who come of you shall build the old ruins; you shall rear the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to live in.
(Isa 58:13) If you turn your foot away because of the sabbath, from doing what you please on My holy days, and call the sabbath a delight, to the holiness of Jehovah, glorified; and shall glorify Him, to the holiness of not doing your own ways, from finding your own pleasure or speaking your word;
(Isa 58:14) then you shall delight yourself in Jehovah. And I will cause you to ride on the heights of the earth, and make you eat with the inheritance of your father Jacob. For the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.
Here is a couple more after Jesus was resurrected that seem interesting:
(Joh 21:4) And it now becoming early morning, Jesus stood on the shore. However, the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.
(Joh 21:5) Then Jesus said to them, Children, do you not have anything to eat? They answered Him, No.
(Joh 21:6) And He said to them, Cast the net into the right side of the boat and you will find.
Jesus standing on the shore in early morning (dawn), the Light, Him, gave them light to catch many fish. Not exactly sure about these verses, but they must tie in somewhere. Just a thought.
My prayer is that we all stay in the Light, and progress onward, and not to let ourselves be hindered with the ways of this world.
God bless,
Gary