Sometimes I forget....

Sometimes in the midst of the days stresses and strains, I forget who I am in Christ...I forget that the old me passed away and that a new me has emerged, shaped and moulded by his ever wise and loving hands. When I see my Goliath's and hear their loud and fearful threats, i forget that the same God of David...the same God of Moses and Abraham, Joshua and Solomon is the God who promises me that He will never abandon or forsake me...sometimes I forget that He is my shepherd and I will not want because he leads me beside still waters and the greenest of meadows. It is so easy to do, the papers, tv, words spoken in shops in corridors speak of gloomy times, of the fears ahead of pain, illness and death. So easy to forget in the light of things we see, that faith is the belief in things unseen yet believed.
So when I get to this place of forgetfulness that comes spiced with old fears, forgotten regrets I realise that I need to take it back to the beginning, to find my way back to the cross and remember the sacrifice that Jesus made so that I may never be afraid again....
And so the word for today ...in my new and undesigned blog....is as written in Romans 8.33 - 38

"what then shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all - how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?.......Who shall separate us from the Love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written .......... No, in all these things we are more than conquerers through Him who loved us..." and then perhaps one of my favourite declarations in verse 38-  "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present not the future, nor any powers, neither height not depth , nor anything else in creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Today Holy Spirit, Comforter and Friend.. help me not to forget who I am ...help me to look to Him who gives me strength and not the crashing waves or the wind and help me to remember that He is Lord of the storms and with one word..He can bid the most raging storm be still..and help me to remember to put Him first in all things, to live my life for him so that His will may be perfected through me..Help me not to forget....