"Dear Church Baby..." Part 2

Dear Church Baby,

Believe again. Believe always..

You're preparing in time, for life in eternity. 


Stay fresh. Stay open...teachable, and  hopeful...
Fix your eyes. Imitate Christ. He's Cornerstone.

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  Being taught right from wrong, and sheltered as long as I was, still didn't save me from mistakes and moments of waywardness.

It showed me something though.

I wasn't being confined as much as I was being protected... and no matter how far I decided to stray, something... as if I don't know what ; ) --  SOMETHING inside always reminded me where I belonged.
Something's always tugging. 
Something will always pull you back. 
 

God is faithful.

His hand and safekeeping is evident.
Count it a privilege to have been marked at an early age for His service.
To know better, see better, and be a light in this world..
To be taught before many discover...

Jesus - the answer.

Never lose your wonder. Never lose your awe. 

 Stay on course... church baby.

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Read "Dear Church Baby, Part 1"

Read "Dear Church Baby, Part 3"

Read "Dear Church Baby, Part 4"

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"Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard....there the Lord bestows his blessing, even life forevermore." (Psalm 133:1-3)

Philippians 3:10: "My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death..."

Psalm 25:14-15: "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; He will show them His covenant. My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only He will release my feet from the snare."

Ephesians 5:18-20: "... be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father" 

Ephesians 4: 15-16: 

 "... speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love..." 

"And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's descendants, heirs according to promise."

Galatians 3: 29

"Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary."

Galatians 6:9

"One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple."

Psalm 27:4

 "And having a High Priest over the house of God,  let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.  Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,  not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, all the more as the day of His return is drawing near.
(Hebrews 10:21-25)

1 Corinthians 6:19-20: "…Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body."

"Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.…"

(Hebrews 10:35-36)