Greetings from Austin Street

Happy Monday Labor Day!! All is well here at 811.

September Theme

Wisdom brings strength, and knowledge gives power.”

Proverbs 24: 5

Thank you, dear God, for inviting me to change and for helping me to do it. You, my Lord are worthy of my worship and awe. I praise you for being sacred, blessed, virtuous, pure, perfect, and good. Truly you are holy. Lord, you granted a day filled with family blessed by your love. Thank you Lord so very much.I love you Lord, in Jesus’ name, amen.

Have you ever met anyone who acted one way and then something happened to change them and it was like knowing this person as someone new.  Tonight my meditation tells a story about St. Augustine who encountered a woman with whom he had known intimately before he came to know the Lord. In his embarrassment over past discretions he tried to avoid her by walking quickly past and hoping she would not recognize him.  She did however recognize him and called out to him. She cried out, “Augustine, it is I!” Augustine replied,  “Yes, it is not I.” 

In his confession he was acting on the way God, through faith in Jesus had changed his life. His actions, behaviors and motivations had changed out of God’s great love for him and the transforming power of Jesus. He was not the person he was in his youth. He was changed.  We are not so very different from Augustine. When Jesus enters our lives we invite the transforming power of his love, grace, holiness, mercies and forgiveness to enter the sacred space of our hearts and change us from the inside out. When God comes into our lives we are never the same again and even if we slip back into old ways God never leaves us and His transforming power of unrelenting, unfailing love is still with us. 

God is set apart purer, holier and more amazing than we will ever be able to grasp and yet he still loves us enough to find us worthy to call us his sons and daughters.  That alone makes God, through faith in Jesus, worthy of our praise.

“If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation:  everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new.”

2 Corinthians 5: 17

Take joy in the journey praying as you go living out each day as a new creation ordained by God. Wear comfortable shoes and get some sleep.  Love you all, Bruce and Gaylene