The Long Days
Let me just begin by saying, I love being a child of God!! Wow, just with that phrase, so many things run thru my mind. Lets hope I can communicate it well :-) Being one of God's daughters is the hardest thing there is, only because i fight my flesh every moment of the day. I battle thru all the things I desire to do right, verses all the things my flesh wants to do to serve myself. How is it that Paul expresses it in Romans 7:15-25 "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do..." (v.15 NIV) That said, being God's daughter is the greatest gift/blessing/honor. Because I'm His daughter, the love he bestows on me is unconditional and never-ending!! He gave me the gift of His Son, to come to this earth, to die on a ugly, cruel cross and take all my sins on Himself, to raise again to new life, just so that He can make an new person out of me and I don't need to live and die in my sin--FORGIVENESS!! He has given my the gi...