Celebrate God!

Psalm 32:11 "Rejoice in the LORD and be glad, you righteous; sing, all you who are upright in heart!" The Message translation says to "Celebrate God! Sing together - everyone! All you honest hearts, raise the roof!"

Just reflecting this morning on the goodness of God. The Father loving me enough to sacrifice His only Son. Jesus, making me righteous and worthy to enter into the presence of the Father. The Holy Spirit never giving up on me and completing that work that was begun in me when I received Christ.

If there was ever a reason to celebrate it is all this and more.

The love of the Father is now my characteristic and make-up. I can love and forgive and feel compassion and just plain live with my head held up because He first loved me. All that is in the Father, my creator, is now free to work in me. A concept that is not always easy to remember. It's only in DAILY and MINUTE BY MINUTE fellowship that the realization of just WHOSE I am comes to light in my mind. God is love and He made a way to show that love by coming for ME!

Being righteous and worthy by Christ's blood and sacrifice to enter into the presence of the Father blows me away every time I think about it. It never ceases to work that way in my heart and mind. Coming to the realization of not being lost or alone, not wandering around without a purpose, being able to talk to someone about what is really going on in my heart, having something to put MY FAITH in...it is incredible.

And not staying there. That work that was started when I accepted what Christ did for me is still growing in my life. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, I see each and every day the work of the Cross. What it did for me, what it is doing in me, and how to share that with others. The work I am most responsible for now is to spread the news of what the Cross did for others. That gets easier and easier as I come to the realization of what it did for me. It creates and excitement that can't be quenched or silenced. That's the fire in the bones that that Jeremiah was talking about. Something that so consumes you that the old recognizable person is no long recognizable. When others are changed by being in my presence, then I know I'm Celebrating God!!