To Be Justified

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 To be justified -- by people --or by God through Jesus Christ -- i choose the latter and it's tough to


disregard the people sometimes if i let it be tough.  There are phony, manipulative souls and i want to be the first to tell them where to get off but i know that wouldn't please my Lord.  Now being considered a "saint" is not on the top of my list of accomplishments here and now.  It might be a good item to put on my bucket list at a later time, but only Jesus can determine my sainthood which is in store for me.  Yet i'm sure that what others think about me being a saint or not doesn't matter anymore.  i aint't here for no popularity contest.  The more darts and stares thrown at me the more i feel that God and i are doing something right together.

i've been baptized and i'm again going down beneath the depths of hell so i can ascend to my home just as He did.  For the time being i have the good wine set before me and i'll maintain that fullness in the golden chalice the best i can. 

Lord, thank You for sticking with me as i have fallen away and have made carved images with my pen in the past.  i love Your Holy Spirit.  It's the greatest companion and gift i've ever received.  Help me to remind others about the Holy spirit, seems He's been forgotten as i can look only to the heavens and stars to find Him at time, forgetting the gift--right here and now inside me--and with that gift, i know You'll be there when i descend into hell again and back.  Your grace is sufficient for me.

And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death to present you holy and blameless and above reproach in His sight, if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard which was preached to every creature under heaven of which I, Paul, became a minister. ---[Colossians 1: 21-23]

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