WHAT A WONDER Meditating in the Word of God today and I am as astounded at this moment as much as I was when Jesus Christ opened my eyes to see what He had done to rescue me from sin, death, hell, and the grave. The Lord saw my conception take place by His ordained plan. He saw my very beginning as well as my last breath here on planet earth. He saw every act of idolatry, rebellion, indifference, lust, hatred, unforgiveness, and everything His holiness revealed as vile and death-deserving. Nothing has ever been hidden from Him. He, faithfully and persistently, pursued me making Himself real to me at the age of seven and again at 19 rescuing me from demonic forces that were encouraging me to commit suicide. He intervened and grabbed ahold of me, bringing me back from the edge of eternal separation from Him. I have deserved nothing that I have received from Him. I can never and will never ever earn His love. I have it as a gift that, once given by His grace, can never be rescinded. ...
WICKEDNESS The love of wickedness is a cheat. Its pleasure is fleeting because wickedness ends in debauchery, death, and the perversion of humanity. Wickedness mars and seeks to destroy any and all that is good and replace it with the love of lies and the delusion that, once embraced, brings about ultimate destruction. Ezekiel 20:13 "They wouldn't obey my regulations, even though obedience would have given them life."