ONCE UPON A TIME
we will see JESUS face to face.
I picture myself standing in a huge crowd with
everyone raising their hands screaming with excitement,
"PICK ME, PICK ME"
But I am hidden,
as no one sees me.
People have trampled over me to get in the front of the line.
I have no voice, as I stand with slumped shoulders.
And then it happens in the midst of everyone screaming
"PICK ME JESUS"!
All those who now are faced with their eternal destiny.
And then HE
lifts HIS scared hands & points HIS finger.
“You mean me JESUS”
as everyone thinks it is them.
And HE says ~
I PICK YOU.
I slowly look up & start walking forward.
The crowd is silent as they are thinking~
"YOU picked HER. Don’t you now what she has done?"
But I keep walking forward
thinking
It was all worth it.
The times I was shunned because
I BELIEVED.
The times that I had to say no, when I so wanted to say yes.
The times when I had to face every icky thing that I have done, that covered me in shame.
The times when "it is not fair" was all that I experienced.
The times that I had to say I am sorry to those who I have hurt.
Those times that I sat alone with GOD because I had no where else to go.
It was worth it
"for such a time as this" (Esther 4:14)
To stand before JESUS and be PICKED.
To be chosen to come into HIS kingdom.
It is me that HE sees
because I am covered IN HIM.
It is me who HE has always seen.
The me who still
has moments when I feel so ashamed to look up into HIS face
to RECEIVE all
who HE says I am
Because of those
ONCE UPON A TIME MOMENTS
when
I still do what I want to do, even though
HE SAID~
“Flee from temptation" (2 Timothy 2:22).
When I say what I feel I want to say, even though
HE SAID~
“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out..." (Ephesians 4:29).
When I run away in fear even though
HE SAID~
“Don’t be afraid; just believe” (Mark 5:36)
When I feel so ashamed, even though
HE SAID~
“If we confess our sins, HE is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins
and purify us from all unrighteousness” (I John 1:9).
So I will stand one day & you will stand one day
IN HIS PRESENCE
And will see JESUS standing
With HIS HANDS opened wide
TO RECEIVE
The guilty.
The shamed.
The bitter.
The fearful.
The _________,
And
not because of the good we did
&
not because of the better than he or she we did,
but because
ONCE UPON A TIME
I heard the TRUTH & you heard the TRUTH~
"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears MY word and believes HIM who sent ME
has eternal life. HE does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life" (John 5:24)
and
BELIEVED & RECEIVED it.
Or maybe
you have never heard the TRUTH
or have heard it and don't
BELIEVE it.
JESUS IS YOUR STORY CHANGER!
But
either way,
ONCE UPON A TIME
we will all stand before
GOD
and
when HE looks into your eyes
will
HE SEE JESUS
the one who
has
PICKED YOU
because
you
PICKED HIM?
Therefore,
let's
"Fix our eyes on JESUS the author and finisher of our faith..."
(Hebrews 12:2)
Watch
"THE GOOD-O-METER"~