Holy Week - (It is about God, Can you Handle It?)

It is Holy Week starting tomorrow. Easter is the most holy of days for a believer. I will focus this week on the sacrifices that were made for me to have a relationship with my God. I will consider the payment made for my salvation, culminating with the day of Resurrection, the day that my Savior defeated the ultimate enemy, death.

While the focus of the cross is something many in our society today would like to play down, it is something that we who call our self Christians must aknowledge. A Christian is one who accepts the crucifixion and the resurrection. Accepts it by faith...in fact, it is the very foundations of our faith...the starting point...And because of the death and resurrection of Christ I will focus on my responsibility as a member of His Kingdom, the Kingdom of Heaven..."How then should we (I) live?" as the famous evangelist Francis Schaeffer once wrote years ago...

Indeed...how should I live?

Jesus did so much with His earthly life in 33 years. He taught a better way of living. A life of giving, loving and forgiving. A life that took people where they were and encouraged them to improve for the glory of God...a life that would not be easy, but was fulfilling and satisfying...a life that honored God.

I have never doubted the existence of God or that Jesus is His Son, or that to have a relationship with Him we must first be redeemed through Jesus' death at the cross. I believe I was born with an innate understanding of this. I know this may not be the case for everyone, but it was for me. My family did not practice Christianity, but for me, I have known since I was 8 I was suppose to be a Christian...

The disciplined life of a Christian calls me to better myself. To improve. To be a vessel used for the glory of God. For many years this vessel just existed to live for self...just survived...but now I want to be changed and improved....I want to overcome obstacles that I have allowed to encumber me for far too long...

My weight is simply an outward result of an inner issue. An issue that I have allowed to defeat me. Well that is over with....I will, through the power of God and His creative power within me be victorious and overcome this weakness that seeks to destroy and defeat me.

Thank you God for my life, thank You for my salvation, and thank You for my struggles, they show me that YOU are at work in me, and that YOU can overcome anything that causes me to stumble if I just allow you to work in my life.