Abide in me, and I in you… — John 15:4
May God grant you mercy and forgiveness of all your transgressions. He asks that you believe in his Son Jesus Christ, whose blood was shed for the remission of sins. Our Lord says:
“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.“All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11: 25-30)
The yoke of Christ is an easy one, but so many choose to carry burdens themselves.
Unbelievers try to follow their own path to God by doing “good” things and being “good” people, for they instinctively know they’ll answer to a Judge one day, though they may not know the Judge is Christ. He tells us there is no other way to God but through himself and not human goodness. To those who refuse to believe, he says:
“[W]hoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.” (Mark 8:38)
Christ’s return will be as a thief in the night, catching us unaware. When he comes, everyone will know that Jesus is Lord, believer and unbeliever alike. It will be too late to seek forgiveness.
A brand new year is upon us. Spend some of it thinking about Christ and how his death set the guilty free. It is profound.
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Happy New Year La Shawn! And thank you for your faithfulness to speak the truth in love. There are too many real needs and hurting people in the world to be distracted by the petty name-calling and distortions referred to in your previous post. May God give you strength and wisdom in 2005!
Thank you. For your courage to post the free gift that Christ has offered us.
Happy New Year. And, you’re bookmarked.
Thank you La Shawn for continuing to witness about the Lord.
Happy New Year and may it be a blessed one!
Amen.
Great New Year blog entry!
I hope you have a blessed New Year.
Amen. Great message of Good News! Evon
Happy New Year LaShawn….a message that brings real hope and healing to a sinful people…..there is hope….only in CHRIST!
Rose
A Profound thought that I adore and uphold next to me, beside me and within me.
This last month I hurt someone I love so very much by thinking something and then actually accused this person of something that was wrong, I am human and I failed. This person says they will never forget and I am dealing with that. I know the Lord forgave me and I am in prayer so will my loved one someday. I guess it falls under, IN HIS TIME, NOT MINE and until then I pray.
Even tho’ we take the Lord Jesus into our hearts does not make us in human but quite the opposite, we are human and perfect in HIs Eyes. I find myself forgettting that and find myself unable to forgive me even though God already has.
I love the Lord with every fiber of my being and there are secular songs that are sung as those I am listening to tonight that inspire me to put the face of Jesus there when I am all alone as I have been for over a year now. It is beautiful, it is awesome that I see His face in a song sang by, Josh Groben…You’re Still You!
La Shawn I ask for you to spare a moment to pray a loved one will forgive me completely and let the never forget be a thought of the past realizing I was so ill and so heavily medicated. Not excuses but absolute truth as to why my thoughts were so wrong.
I have not posted here in sometime because I stayed away from so many blogs for such a long time knowing my med’s were throwing me. They never threw my faith but my vision was not clear.
Amen to your Profound and beautiful and yet simple post.
Most Lovingly,
Janelle
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A thought just came to me how hard we are on ourselves even when He Never is.
Happy New Year Ms. Barber and may God continue to freely bless you…
Your friends,
The Gang
Happy New Year La Shawn!
Thank you for those wonderful words to start off the New Year.
Amen pretty well covers it. Thanks for all you do, La Shawn.
Happy New Year La Shawn!!
Happy New Year! Don’t you let that hater get you down a bit! I mean it. It is sad that someone has so much time on their hands they have to speak ill of you. We both know where it is coming from. God continue to bless you!
La Shawn,
You make me think of one of my favorite parts of the bible, the Parable of the ten virgins, Matthew 25:1-12
Happy New Year, you lovely lady.
Keep up the “good” work and many blessings in 2005.
Keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’.
God Bless You, Barber
Happy New Year from Berlin and may 2005 be even better for you!!!
Keep on preachin’ it and may you continue to grow & share in the grace and knowledge of our Lord. Amen!!!
PS. I hope you pick up a few more anti-La Shawn sites
I prefer to seek enlightenment through the eightfold path shown the world by the life of the great Buddha.
But thanks for your prayers, Happy New Year!
Assailed by afflictions, we discover Dharma
And find the way to liberation. Thank you, evil forces!
When sorrows invade the mind, we discover Dharma
And find lasting happiness. Thank you, sorrows!
Through harm caused by spirits we discover Dharma
And find fearlessness. Thank you, ghosts and demons!
Through people’s hate we discover Dharma
And find benefits and happiness. Thank you, those who hate us!
Through cruel adversity, we discover Dharma
And find the unchanging way. Thank you, adversity!
Through being impelled to by others, we discover Dharma
And find the essential meaning. Thank you, all who drive us on!
We dedicate our merit to you all, to repay your kindness.
Lashawn: Truly impressive…. I love to see your continued courage in purpose… God’s best to you and yours this year.
Dave in Denver
Dear Heavenly Father,
I praise You for Your Son, Your Love, Mercy, Justice, and Grace. Please hear LaShawn’s and my prayers for Janelle. Grant her patience as You work on her loved one. Grant her Your Peace as written in Phil 4:4-6. Grant her Your healing. May there be a time when medication is no longer needed, and if this is not in her best interest, grant her Your strength to accept this fact. Love her, hold her close to Your heart. As to her loved one, You know Your plans for this person. Please bless them both. Lord, I pray, bless everyone who comes to this site and who seeks Your face. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.
Happy New Year, LaShawn! What a marvelous post. I usually skim the blogs, because I visit so many. This time, I was touched by your faith and edification. Thank you.
Janelle,
We are always harder on ourselves than we would ever allow another person to be hard on us. Just try this: Look in the mirror and explain to God why it is okay for Him to forgive you, but you feel He did not cover everything so you must continue the punishment. Explain why His sacrifice was insufficeint. This helps me, because I have the same problem. It is not a put down. Trust me. It works.
God bless everyone this year of our Lord, 2005!
Happy New Year!
Lashawn, I want to thank you for your quality blogging. I just made about 1,300,000 of those nerdy blogshares dollars when I sold the 20% of your blog that I owned. Freakin’ sweet
LaShawn,
You are a formidable woman, and I thank you for all the hard work and careful analysis and most of all for the ironclad principles and consistency. I get mentally lazy from time to time, and I come to your blog to be reminded that I am a Christian and I should be working and thinking and reading and studying and helping as if this was my last day. Less TV, more LaShawn, that’s my new years resolution.
Keep up the good work and be blessed!
Dave Perkins, age 45
Houston, TX
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