A Christ Follower: The Journey

                                                  Accepted and Intimate With Christ But whoever is united to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 1 Corinthians 6:17 Great Spiritual Thing  Being intimate, not sexually, but authentically intimate, is one of the greatest things going. And it is something that many long for, but few actually have such a connection with anyone to really receive it. You can long for it. You can cry for it. You can put on a good face to try really hard to be acceptable. And there are many other things that the so called self help books say you can do to have it; however, the kind of intimacy -- that can be received by we human beings authentically -- comes at the spiritual level of our being. If it comes from any other place, I firmly believe that it is missed entirely. God Thing Our verse above is on target when it...

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith,  we have peace with God Through Our  Lord  Jesus Christ. Paul: Romans 5:1 JUST A What? As anyone reads this I.D. #3 passage, the language is difficult to grasp for these 21st Century ears. Paul says we have been "Justified." I can imagine quite a few of my millennial, Gen Xers or even Z friends asking "Say What?" or "Just A What? " Even some of ye olde baby boomers might sit in a state of confusion when we hear this word. But let's think about this for just a short while: Law Breakers In each of our lives, we have broken one -- need I say more than one -- of the big 10 core values of The Creator, Sustain-er, Maintainer and Closer upper of the Universe. He gave us only 10 rules for living, and I can just about guess that most of us have broken nearly everyone of the liberating limits. Yet, God has given them to us in order to order our lives. And when we break these...