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The Feet of His Kingdom
“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive… Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power” (1 Corinthians 15: 22, 24).
“…., thereby putting to death the enmity” (Ephesians 2:16).
Jesus has put all things under His feet (Ephesians 1:22) and delivers the kingdom to God the Father which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all other kingdoms, and it shall stand forever (Daniel 2:44). My feet being my most treasured body part makes me one who treasures the Ancient of Days. Jesus Christ is Alpha, Omega, Beginning, End, and He has WON! My LORD used His Son’s blood to make an everlasting covenant with me; with you. Moses had to take Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel un the mountain and they saw the God of Israel, and under His feet was a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens in its clarity (Exodus 24:9-10). Jesus gave me clarity to know that my salvation by Him is true and clear; absent of occlusion. I prayed for others and thanked the Holy Spirit’s prompting me to treat my body right so that my feet can bring me joy.
If you are looking to institute a favored sport as your way to be fit, then you have to train as though your livelihood depends on it. I will begin this running season slowly with daily movement by walking, step aerobics, circuit training, and running so that my feet joyfully can put me in the touring pace I so enjoy when I run. My knees will stop throwing sharp pains at me as I give my hips some love with step aerobics; the shins will be lubricated with walks that are so critical to keeping my calf and ankle muscles lengthened and buoyant, and the circuit training will build my fantastic upper body that is critical to comfortable VO2 Max breathing. Share in the comments your favorite sport that keeps you fit and what other topics you would like me to blog about.
God Bless Beloved.
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Earning Discipline
“For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit… if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame, … But, beloved we are confident of better things concerning you,” (Hebrews 6:4,6,9).
Sin is removed to oblivion when we the sinner come to the savings grace of the Lord, Jesus Christ, God’s one and only Son. My mother would try to assure me that He would forgive me of all my sins if I would find faith to believe in Him and ask Him to forgive me of all my sins. In my head I thought, ‘bulls-.’ I wretch now when I hear believers in Christ recite, “I’m a sinner saved by grace.” This phrase is not in the Bible and believers in Jesus Christ must refrain from using it to explain their rejection of righteousness. Being saved in August 1998 was my grace to say “yes” to God’s righteousness and no to sin’s lure. Righteous Practice will never delve into the gray areas of God’s Word as the allowance for sin to persist. When I was saved by Jesus I was and am free from sin and He expects me and you to go and sin no more. I would read the beginning verses of Hebrews 6 and I thought that my last act of sin blew my salvation to smithereens. I believe that the Apostle Paul wrote the book of Hebrews because of this explanation of why a believer will not fall away from the Lord who fuels us to full of the grace to disallow sin to abound (see Romans 5:18-21 and Romans 6:1-2). Today I struggled with a head cold and my go to binge is sugary cereal. Over the past sixteen months I have practiced rejecting the pull of binges and have earned the strength that stops feeding once I am full and I do not regain weight easily any longer. I am not stronger really; what I am is resolved to delight in His righteousness. I am enlightened about the truth that more is not satisfying because if I try and stuff my body it rejects full stop. I have tasted the heavenly gift of not cleaning my plate and the welling up of the Holy Spirit abiding in me being pleased. When I do sin, I repent immediately, and I get into the light with the fellowship found in the body of Christ. My Bible study girlfriends are critical to me staying in the light of The Truth until I earn the strength to go and sin no more. Beloved reject putting yourself to open shame chasing sensual indulgences of any type. Break the teeth of Satan and just say, “no”!
Death to Cutie
“Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him” (Colossians 3:9-10)
‘I was triggered,’ as my husband would have said when I heard a man call his girlfriend his “partner”. I wanted to say the nastiest four-letter words that piled up in my head to this man’s girlfriend! It is this limp wristed “feminism” that has always set women back morally… Thanks a lot Eve! I began a courtship with my husband Ben upon his fourth year out of seminary in 2011. My husband Ben or rather boyfriend at the time, had a really bad session of marriage counselling with a couple and he came away scared out of marriage. Ben formed out of his mouth to me, “Let’s slow down the marriage wagon and consider being partners?” I did curse up hell at Ben talking to me about being a “partner” and not a wife all because he had a bad session with a couple who believed the devil’s lie, ‘I’m a sinner saved by grace.’ Hagar left the polygamist arrangement she was trafficked into by her maid Sarai and her husband Abram, because righteous anger about her situation rose up in her. Hagar wanted the significance she was due because her maid Sarai gave her as wife, to Abram, Sarai’s husband (Genesis 16:1-4). It was not Hagar’s problem that Abram was weak and took his corrupt wife’s bait as a way to get the child of promise that the LORD declared to Abram would come. Hagar’s response to her situation was probably like mine with my then boyfriend Ben… “Do not put your insecurity about marriage into my lap! Jesus Christ put Belinda, the cutie to death, creating me to only be a man’s wife!” Ben and I split for only a week, but during that week we argued about the very LORD and Bible that my boyfriend loved and obeyed so much, that he became an ordained minister with the vocation of helping couples get healing in the body of Christ. Both of us had divorce in the past but our arguments that week highlighted my convictions brought about by Hagar, who too saw the light that there is no benefit to being a man’s cutie, only his wife. Hagar knew her worth was great by the insecurity that Sarai got deeper into (Genesis 16:5-7); and Hagar fled. The Angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness heading to Shur, and asked her Hagar, Sarai’s maid, “where have you come from and where are you going?” Hagar just said that she was fleeing the presence of her mistress. The Angel of the LORD is said by many Bible commentaries to be the preincarnate Christ; but at meeting Hagar He asked her to return to her mistress Sarai, submit yourself to her, and He would multiply Hagar’s descendants exceedingly and disclosed to Hagar that she was with Abram’s child and that the child’s name is to be Ishmael, because the LORD heard her affliction (Genesis 16:10-13). The LORD acknowledged Hagar’s right to fully assume the role of wife. The LORD did ask Hagar to return as a way to humble Sarai and to protect the child Hagar was carrying. Did Hagar remain a cutie? NO. Hagar’s response was, ‘death to cutie’ and split. Hagar a maid knew that what she was sold into was evil. God does not remove every affliction, but He does remove our former sins-the old man/woman (Colossians 3:9) and gives us a new man/woman in His image. Hagar would example to Sarai being under God’s grace. During my courtship with my husband Ben, we would go around this mountain over and over about the necessity of marriage and I always would go back to Hagar. If a servant girl knew she was now a wife and was being jerked around by her husband Abram, demanding the significance she was due; then I know I better put on my righteousness from Jesus Christ and reject the cutie trend too. I am worthy of the covenant.