Rescued From Darkness - by DianaDee Osborne

FEBRUARY 24

From God to us through Colossians 1:      LINK

COMFORT in our frustrations that drive us to
seek comfort in anything besides God, so very often... including in food, TV, even gossip...

verses  13 - 14

For He [GOD] rescued us from the   domain of darkness , 

and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son [Jesus], 

in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

15  He [Jesus] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 

16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.

17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. 

18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. 

19 For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, 20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

21   And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds  [including self-centered ones], 

22   yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to 
present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach— 

23 

if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established &  steadfast, 

and not  MOVED  AWAY  from the hope of the gospel 
that you have heard, 

which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven....   ( >> see also Romans Chapter 1)   LINK

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SUMMARY: Jesus Christ LOVES You and 

came to reconcile you to God... 

to be the sacrifice through whom you are forgiven 

as soon as you honestly repent 

(Romans10:9, definition of LORD includes putting Jesus's wants before yours).

There is HOPE! 

Even when temptations to sin keep bringing us down 

by own own choice to allow them to. 

For with Jesus, we can fight and  WIN .... 

     God's promise,  via 1st Corinthians 10:13.

                                                   LINK

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