My Savior, My God

I find this song very inspirational and a great reminder of God's love for each and every one of His children!

Aaron Shust - My Savior My GodFrom the album Anything Worth Saying
I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed, what God has planned
I only know at His right hand
Stands one who is my Savior I take Him at His word and deed

Christ died to save me; this I readAnd in my heart I find a needOf Him to be my savior
That He would leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior

Chorus (2x’s) My Savior loves, My Savior lives
My Savior’s always there for me
My God: He was, my God; He isMy God is always gonna be

Yes, living, dying, let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring;
That He who lives to be my King
Once died to be my Savior

That He would leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior

Chorus (2x’s) (Instrumental)

Chorus: (2x’s)

My Savior loves, My Savior lives
My Savior loves, My Savior lives

Forgiveness

"For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not fogive your sins." (Mathew 6: 14).

It is important that we learn how to forgive our brothers and sisters in Christ, as the Lord forgives us. In the gospel, one of Jeses' desciples asks him how many times he should forgive his brother. He suggests "seven times?", but Jesus answers, "not seven times, but seven times seventy".

It may be easy to forgive a friend for "standing you up" once. It may be easy to forgive your significant other when he or she occassionally does something you don't appreciate or like. But, how many of us can forgive something bigger like an affair? Someone who raped you? Someone who told a lie that changed your entire life?

Sometimes it's very difficult to forgive big sins, but if we want to be forgiven for all of our sins, we need to learn how to forgive others as God has commanded us.

God's Discipline

Last night I was reading my devotional for the day and it held the answer to my question I posted earlier: Does God punish?

Charles Stanley says, "Discipline is the tool He uses to bring focus to your life when you have drifted from His chosen path or when you are refusing to follow His instruction in a particular situation. Thorough discipline, you learn how to live a godly life."

God does not use discipline to punish His children. Rather He uses it to bring us closer to Him and to listen to His instructions for our lives.

Somehow this makes perfect sense to me, even though my parents have used discipline as punishment out of anger rather than out of love. If your parents were/are like this as well, try to remember the great love God has for you, always, no matter what sins you commit, no matter what mistakes you make. You are and always will be His child.




By the way, I plan on updating this blog more often. If you have a topic you would like see addressed (love, anger, stress, etc), please feel free to leave me a comment!