So pretty much I want to give a fairly detailed update on the past 5 weeks. The books that I have been studying were Romans, Genesis (while camping), Revelation, 1 & 2 Kings, and Amos - Dang.
To be honest ever since Romans it feels like I have been playing catch up with myself, God, and school... its been a bit of a run. During the week of Romans I had such a hard time wrapping my head around how much of a big deal and the amount of love that went into what Jesus did. Now I say this in true hope that your mind won't just go the whole 'Jesus dying on the cross from sunday school teaching' mind set. We have all heard it about a million times that the impact of Jesus dying has actually start to wear off on how we are living our lives as Christians. The whole message of Romans is that we as the body of Christ will only ever been unified if we live our lives under the truth of the gospel. Meaning that we stop thinking that we are better then one another or some super holy Christian because we "do" more for God, but that we start understanding that we all utterly suck because of the sin that is in our lives and that it is ONLY because of Jesus that we are able to stand in the sight of God and that God is able to see us as righteous. In all honesty every person even (more so people who claim to love and follow God) we all deserve the wrath of God because we ALL fall short in the glory of God but to understand the mass amount of Gods flipping heart that he has made a way for us (that has NOTHING to do with us) to be able to be close with him and that we are after everything declare with Gods righteousness - perfection in Gods eyes! BAH it doesn't even make any sense but I'm glad that he did it. So realizing all that was a lot to take in, understanding for the first time that Jesus is my wrath taker - I don't deserve that, it was and still is really hard for me to grasp that truth and to actually start living by it kind of one of those things that comes with time I think.
So I guess to the say the very least about this week it was FLIPPING CRAZY and God's heart towards us is something that we need to take WAY more seriously because he has done some pretty huge things for us. Lets not just let it become something that we just get use to, but let it bring us to our knees when we look at our lives and the mercy that he has on us in every breath that we take. He truly devisers everything we have
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