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Topic: Cross (as in the Cross of Christ) (08/17/06)
GOD IS THE ESSENCE OF EVERYTHING


An eight year old little girl went to school one morning.. It was spelling test day. She was very nervous. She had not studied the day before, there were problems at home. Her Daddy had come home drunk from work. Her mother fought with him with loud, scary words. She backed into a corner, her heart was racing and she was crying. No one saw her, what was going to happen to her Daddy? Would her mother make him leave? Would he have somewhere to go? Hot tears flowed down her cheeks uncontrollably. She watched her Daddy leave as her Mother turned off the light and went to bed. No one noticed her. She scrunched down in the corner and buried her face in the chest of her teddy bear and cried, “Please God, help my Daddy!”

That little girl was me. Many years have passed but my dependence on God is just as real today as it was then. I knew where to go when I had a problem. I can’t tell you what color or gender God is, nor do I know what He looks like. He is above all the earthly measurements we can place on Him to determine who He is. I do know He is all powerful and knows everything. I know Him. I know He is with me always. I know He is kind, loving and has a sovereign authority over everything in existence. I can’t pin point where He lives, other than in a place called Heaven. But, He has power over the vast limitless space in which all things exist and move of which planet earth is less than a speck of sand. This means I am so small I can hardly be seen. He is the great I Am, always and forever.

“I am fearfully and wonderfully made ,” states King David. I get sick. I have moments of weakness, my body is subject to accidents that distort and weakens its parts. The Creator of this universe created our body with the ability to heal.

My God is not a dictator that treats me like a puppet on a string. He takes great joy in watching me, His creation, move about and use the talents He gave me to create a life that is made in His image with a Godly mind and spirit that will one day stand before Him and hear Him say, “Well done my child.”

During this trek on earth this body is subjected to emotions that stretch the limits in every direction. We strive to be like Father God who is in control of those emotions responding to them with authority, grace and submission. God takes a flesh and blood body and transforms the inner man into a Christ-like body, which we call a Christian. To be a Christian means to become Christ-like. This is how I know God lives within me. His Spirit rules, He has permeated every cell of my body, soul and spirit.

Christ followed the path we humans are asked to follow. He understands the emotions we deal with when we find ourselves being betrayed by someone we love. He understands being thrown before authorities and being judged wrongly for something you didn’t do. He understands justified anger, for He angered but sinned not when He chased the money changers out of the temple. God understands losing something very close to him. I’ve lost four children. His Son died on an old rugged Cross for us. He feels pain.

The experiences in life, unique to each individual, will be looked at as either devastating or they’ll cause us to rise to the challenge and be an over comer.

How do I know God? He has been there to help me over come all of life’s battles that would have over taken me in defeat. I know where my strength and power to meet the challenges in life comes from. It is the I AM that lives within me.

God is no respecter of person’s. He wants to be there for you just as much as He has been there for me.
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Kristi Wood
08/27/06
Nice devotional. It might make the intro more captivating to do it in present tense then flash forward. The rest seemed to flow like a stream of consciousness without a lot of structure or a wrap up at the end. But I liked your thoughts and how you mentioned the verses and attributes of God that have helped you depend on Him. Thanks for sharing!
Joanne Sher 
08/27/06
You have a wonderful testimony of God's faithfulness here! I like how you set the stage at the beginning, then showed us how God got you through. I must admit, however, that your sentence about spelling test day kind of threw me for a loop. I was waiting to hear how this particular issue resolved throughout the piece, and it distracted me from the rest. Great message for all of us - keep writing!
Amy Edwards
08/31/06
It takes courage to share a testimony like yours. God has blessed you with the gift of a good writer. Keep it up!