The discovery of heaven on earth.

Trying to walk the way of the Lord.

It’s a difficult thing to do.

It’s mostly about missteps,not dying to myself and trying to  leave behind  the truly bad things .Leave it up to God to handle so to speak.Now, how difficult could that be.

While i’m hearing  myself saying these words i realise that i failed again. 

But...

Praise God, we may lean in Him and be embraced by His  grace for He already knows in advance that we’ll never gonna make it on our own.

In Christ we are free to come to God, to pledge for mercy, for forgiveness and to repent our sin.

What i learn from this is that the more i dare to trust in Him, the more things will work out better in the end. 

It’s a kind of  healing process that cleanses my soul while crawling towards the lamb. 

Not that this leaning in Him will be a recipe for succes. No, no.

But leaning on God, trusting Him and be aware of my dependence on His grace and Love helps me through these troubled and stressfull moments.

These  days, before and after Christmas,  make me humble and aware that we are priviliged people that we may know and love God as He loves us in Christ. 

That He has sent Christ the newborn King to this earth.

That Jesus left heaven to come into our world to set us free from ourself and be liberated people. 

Harry Mulisch ,a famous dutch novellist, wrote in his  bestseller ”The discovery of heaven” that we are all in “ the claws of God “ .

The man was a agnostic writer, lost his parents during the Holocaust and ended up with a pretty negative view on life,God , heaven and hell.

But we have a much positive view on life and liberation.

Jesus Christ has liberated us  from “the claws of Satan.” 

We all know that Satan rebelled already in heaven.

That he wanted to opposed God, in trying to  be God himself.

Therefore he was banned to earth. So we can call earth his prison.

Through Eve, Satan took a hold on Eden and right after that Eve seduced Adam as well, and in doing so they took  Gods creation with them into that “ great Fall” .

Through Mary, God took a stand against brokenness of this world and His Son was born in a manger, without sin, not yet broken, to reconcile creation with it’s creator. Later on while dying on the cross He was broken for our sins and layed down His life voluntarily to mend our broken bondage we’ve ended up with.

Trying to belief this, to walk with God, every day of my life, is both a very difficult thing to do but also a blessing  to know that it is not up to us but up to God to handle.

All we have to do is surrender  us daily to the Newborn King.

Born in a manger in Bethlehem. Not only during Christmas time once a year!

I gladly kneel down,give myself to God and pray that His Spirit will create in me a clean heart.

So help me God almighty.

A merry Christmas everybody and God bless us all.