Marsha's Musings: Condemnation Blotted Out

This has been a tiring day. Woke around 4:30 this morning and took a sleeping pill to help me fall back to sleep. Had a hard time getting going again after that.

It's been a day of very little accomplishment. I guess I can't expect to have great days every day. I did get my bills all paid, camp registration done for Nathaniel, receipts and papers filed and that is about all so far.

I've been dealing with a toothache that started out as just an occasional ache and then it would go away. But it is becoming increasingly more sensitive to hot and cold and tonight since dinner, so far, it has not stopped hurting. I took two tylenol a while a go, hoping for it to stop aching. I'm so afraid I am in for a big expensive root canal. Really hate those, not to mention the cost. I just had a crown put on that tooth and then it started acting up. Just hate having work done on any of my teeth because nine times out of ten I end up with a root canal before I am done.

Sometimes there are things a person just can't talk about that weigh heavy on the mind. I could use some prayer for this.

My Quiet Time

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. (Colossians 2:11-15 KJV)

It is so wonderful to know that God has blotted out the condemnation that the law has brought against His people. He has nailed all that to the cross. Now we have the freedom to live lives pleasing to Him because we love Him not because we must measure up. No one can ever measure up to His perfect standard. He had to do all that for us or we would be condemned to Hell.

It is so very sad when a church lays down a list of do's and don't's and ritualistic things a person must do to be acceptable to God. It's all legalism. A person can have a non-existent relationship with Jesus Christ, but if they adhere to all the rules and rituals, they can have a false sense that they are eternally secure. It's salvation by works, not by faith. So very sad.