Our Current expression which borders on profanity in some peoples minds, “OMG” - meaning “Oh MY God,” has always been a saying that in my mind turned me to God when the situations that make you exclaim such a thing occur. Always, if I said, “OH MY GOD”, I was really including Him in the situation. Sometimes a call for help, sometimes an exclamation of “I am over my head in this one now... Lord Help me.” Or “only God could bless us this much!” Sometimes a joyous explosion of relief… Whatever the use, I just didn’t think of it as being vain with using my Lord’s name. I figured who else should be the first name I think of? But I got my son in real trouble, and almost got him thrown off the school bus, when he used the phrase to a bus driver, one day, years ago.
To the bus driver, and apparently the school rulebook, it was profane. Actually, it was a phrase “By God” that they considered illegal, and the driver told me he thought that is what my son said. Now that one gets me more confused. I had never heard that phrase before the driver said my son said it. No, I take that back. I had heard my sister in law say it. But she is a hilarious person, and it never struck me as being profane. Maybe it was and I just didn’t know it. Maybe it is to many people. But I didn’t know it as a bad thing, and I had never told my son it was a bad thing. My son promised he didn’t say that, and I believed him, ‘cause around our house that just wasn’t a phrase we used. Naïve Mom, maybe. So even if he said it, I am not sure he knew it was a bad thing. --Anyway, it was one time in my son’s discipline, that I couldn’t get serious about being as upset as the bus driver. However, in respect to him, and because of knowing my son’s occasional attitude when he was angry about something, I gave the bus driver his due. I insisted that I didn’t care if the bus driver didn’t want him to say “stink” (whatever word I said back then,) on the bus, my son should not ever say it again. But in my mind, it was incredulous that it went on his permanent record.
Now everybody knows…the secret’s out of the closet, the skeleton has been released!
Sin is like that. There are all different degrees of what mankind thinks sin is. That’s what makes “religion” such a drag. I did say religion. You see, I don’t fit into that mold either, and I am proud of it! I am not religious. I am so glad that God the Father, saw how perverted that men could make the greatness of God, and He decided to send his Son to put a stop to it, (at least from His point of view.) You see, there isn’t a sin on the books, anyone’s books, that wasn’t covered on that cross, and in that tomb, or because of the resurrection. Not one.
Religion is what the Scribes and Pharisees had. It is what man in general has tried to limit the relationship of God with man to, for all of History. What makes believing in Jesus different than all the religions in this world and all of history is this: His whole purpose on earth was to convey to us that God didn’t want a bunch of people trying to remedy the sin question. That’s a God issue. He is the only one big enough to handle it. I can’t. Never will be able to, never had one itty-bitty chance of it.
Instead, God wanted a family relationship. He wants a “let’s sit down and talk about it” kind of relationship. God is a god of judgment. But I am so glad that he fixed it so my judgment is strictly seen through Jesus’ blood.
~ Freedom with a capital F. ~
That’s how I face each day, and how I face the hour I will stand before him in Judgment. If the cross was of none effect, then I have nothing to stand on.
My precious pastor, when I was a teen, used the phrase “justified” frequently. He even had little pins made for us to wear with the word on it. “Justified,” he would say, “just as if I’d never sinned! And don’t you forget it!” (Dr W. Jack Hudson) As a Bible technical term, justification is hard to explain. But if you get down to the nitty-gritty, all it means is that my judgment as a born again believer is 100% “just as if I’d NEVER sinned,” because He paid the atonement price. The fines.
Whew! Is that a relief to me! I can’t believe how many people toss that truth to the wind and say, well for me, I think I will try to do the no sin thing. Yeah, right!!!! Good luck with that, as they say. And who’s your judge? “Cause the one who will be judging me will use the Blood Criteria. All he will want to know is AM I UNDER IT? If so, check, she’s justified. And yes, it is as simple as that. The whole Bible from cover to cover is about showing us how impossible it is to try to live as if the judgment was going to catch us with our pants down. There won’t be enough scurrying we can do to dress ourselves before God on that day. Or any day from now ‘til then. I can’t be good enough! Hooray!!!!!!
All I can say is - THANK YOU JESUS! AMEN
Acts 13:39 KJV And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses.
IS THAT CLEAR?
PS. Did I get enough slang in? LOL
Say “OMGG-GGG” once a day this week and be sure to follow it up by thinking: Oh My Great Glorious - Gracious Giving God! Make a constant habit of practicing it, and see where your mind goes next time you almost think, “Oh My God!”
-(By the renewing of your mind – it’s biblical.)-
For your children’s sake, say it out loud every now and then, just so they know. LOL
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