I Stand Amazed In The Presence!

This week I want to try something a little different. I’ve been posting my weekly encouragement in with my weekly summary post but this week I also want to do it as a separate post on Saturdays. This is nothing but a repeat of what was with the post yesterday. I write out the weekly encouragements for myself and hope you get some encouragement from it too! I have found to get stuff to stick in my mind its best for me to repeat it. As the week goes along I have moments of encouragement from all different types of sources. I typically try to jot them down then as I finally pause to review my notes for this post I get to go deeper in it and it helps to make it a more permanent thought.

Encouragement This Week:

This week I’ve had multiple moments of amazement at the love of our heavenly father, God. We’re reminded (I know I keep posting it) in the bible: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

As I was thinking on this amazement I turned to our friend Google and searched for scripture on amazement and the next few verses are where I was taken…

I rejoice in your promise like one who finds great spoil. -Psalm 119:162

I also read this verse with Psalm 119:162 as it was pointed as a cross reference while I was reading.

Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart. – Psalm 119:111

Then from Psalm 119:162 I was pointed to 1 Peter.

“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” 1 Peter 2:24

Yes, by his wounds we are healed! I’m thankful, amazed at the love in that statement. Then I was taken to Isaiah 53 to read a prophesy of the coming Messiah.

Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
    stricken by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
    and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
    each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all. – Isaiah 53:4-6

Especialy, when I’m in the outdoors in creation. Right now that’s in the cool of the morning or as the sun sets in the evening. I’m reminded, I’m amazed, I’m in Awe of the love of our heavenly father who created everything I’m seeing…loved me so much he sent his only son, Jesus, to die for my sins so I could have eternal life in heaven. I’ll repeat it:

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

So I’m standing amazed in the presence of Jesus, who took my sin and sorrows. He made them his very own on Calvary!

Do you know him?

I believe salvation is as easy as ABC. Admit You’re A Sinner, Believe Jesus Is Lord, Call Upon His Name (Confess).

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. Romans 3:23-24

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9

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