Lazaroo – Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Aug 18, 2010 I Lazaroo.
Pray the words of this Lazaroo aloud, in utter amazement:
“Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God – children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.”
(John 1:12-13)
You’ve given me this as my “right,” Jesus?
– to become Your child?
Please help me understand what You mean by this.
I’m Your child – not because I grew up in a “Christian” family
or in a family who did not know You.
I’m Your child – not because of any human decision –
not my friends’ decision
not my pastors’ decision
not my parents’ decision
not my leaders’ decision
not my teachers’ decision
apart from You, not even my decision.
I’m Your child – not because my father or anyone else wanted it.
I’m Your child because You Personally
called me and enabled me
and I said, “Yes.”
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Matthew 7:13-14; Matthew 22:2-14; John 3:16-17; John 6:44; John 6:65; John 7:37-38; John 10:14; Romans 8:29-30; Ephesians 1:4-6; Ephesians 1:11-12; Revelation 22:17
Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.