Tonight's blog for April 13, 2013

Hi boys and girls! I am glad to have a few moments tonight to pray for you. I want to remind you that GOD loves you and wants to free you up from the things that add a "burden to your backpack," that weigh you down! Whether it is sin, or fear, or expectations by others, or any of a hundred other problems you might have, our LORD, Jesus, is the one who can help you, tonight and each day. 

It might help if you learn a new word with me. The word is "immiscible", and it is a chemistry word, that us used about liquids. Most liquids are "miscible" or mixable. This means that if you pour two liquids together, such as coffee and water, they mix and you can't tell them apart, after they are thoroughly shaken! "Immiscible" liquids, no matter how much you shake or mix them, will separate after the agitation stops. So, oil will remain oil, and water

will remain water, after all. 

If you apply this word to our spiritual lives, the things of GOD can not mix with the things that are evil. Once you understand this, and accept this, you become free from the burden that comes from trying to mix in with the world. "We are in the world, but not of the world", that is how Jesus explained this phenomena to His disciples. 

I am praying tonight to the ONE who can make sense of this. You see, most of us still struggle with our sin nature, and have failed in areas of purity or holiness, to use a biblical word. One great reminder from Hebrews 10:14 is that by one sacrifice, GOD has already made us perfect, and is in the process of making us holy. Are you perfect yet? Yes, you are perfect and complete, by HIS blood and through HIS grace! Holiness is a process. GOD is the one who is separating out the unholy parts, and that process corresponds to a spiritual separation much like oil and water separating after the stirring up ends. 

Does that make sense? Is it easy? No to both of those questions, but GOD loves you and has given the solution. We add the "burden to our backpacks" by trying to keep score, or compare ourselves with others. We add additional burdens when we compare us with us, at other times or places in our lives. I want to finish with an admonition: "lighten up!" As we have been saying, this word, light, has a double meaning for us Christians. First, it means to take the burden away, to walk lighter. A second meaning is light, as opposed to darkness. I want to add a third meaning to light, "lighten up" means to stop taking yourself so seriously! Develop joy and humor about your circumstances! GOD is lIght, and HE can lighten your load, if you will "lighten up" and allow it! GOD Bless you tonight, my dear ones. big marv