I happend upon this message board today as I search for truth. It looks to be a wonderful place to share ideas and to help others in their search to know God.

I thought it would be good to share with anyone who is interested a little about me. Perhaps because I think it might inspire someone else to seek the truth about themselves. After all, how can we hope to understand the character of God if we are unable to know our own character first?

I was born to a loving father and mother some 42 years ago. They gave me a wonderful Hebrew name, which in english means "beloved". My namesake was a man who was asked by God to fight seemingly undefeatable enemies. He obeyed the Father and accepted His strength and did as he was commanded.

My namesake also disobeyed the Father in many shameful and destructive ways. But becuase he beleived in the healing power of the pure blood that had not even been shed yet, he was forgiven and held in esteem by God. So much so that it seemed good to God that when the Word was made flesh His earthly parents came from the lineage of my namesake.

So who am I?

I have killed my unborn children whom God knew in the womb.
I have lashed out in anger towards others in a feeble attempt to preserve my foolish pride.
I have committed adultery in my heart with countless women.
I have born false witness against my brothers.
I have dishonored and failed to keep countless Sabbaths that my Father commanded me to keep.
I have accepted appologies from those who have wronged me only to keep anger and malice in my heart towards them.
I have stolen from my brothers and sisters out of selfishness.
I have coveted that which belongs to my neighbor.
I have worshipped many false Gods including money, power, status, position, sex and physical beauty.
I have sought strength and prosperity by my own hand only to find failure becuase I rejected the strength and guidance offered by He who made me.
I have substituted my own will for that of my creator.

I have brought a sentence of death upon myself.
My clothes are filthy rags.

Yet a Son became flesh from the root of David. Before that He and His Father designed the atom. They devised the sun and the sunset. They conceived of, then built the supernova, the aurora borealis and the butterfly. Together they invented love.

This Son was sent away by the Father. Had no one else who had ever walked the face of the earth ever disobeyed God's laws of love except me, still the Son would have been sent away by the Father to become the Son of Man. He was instructed by the Father to offer Himself up. He did so becuase of the love that they had created together.

Besides the suffering of the scourge, the beatings and the crucifiction, the scars of which he bears to this day, the Son suffered the unimiginable because of my selfish disobedience. Because he took my sins upon himself, the Son suffered the horror of separation from the Father. Because my sins separated me from God, and the Son took them upon Himself so that I might live, He then suffered for the first and only time that separation from the Father that I deserved for myself. At the moment he took them away from me to bear upon himself, he realized the aweful emptiness that is the separation from the Father. It was then he asked "Father, why hast Thou foresaken Me?" He asked this because the perfect connection with the Father had been broken in that moment because of me.

For those who seek to know the character of God, ask yourself this question. What kind of God would do such a thing?

Moderators words:

Much of your "mail" has been found in my sinful "mail box" also. I am touched by your candor and willingness to share a perspective of God's love. My reply to your end line question is "A loving God." The Holy Spirit is here.

Maz.

He knew not sin, but yet our sins were placed upon HIM. He died in our place, so that we would not have to know death from our sinful nature. He folded the Napkin that was placed over His face in the grave, and put it to the side in a place by iteself, so to tell Israel and all the world, that He would not have to come and sup there again. How much more can He Love us? Did He not stretch out His arms as they nailed Him to the Cross, with all my worldliness and sin attached? How much More He loves us when we come to Him and ask forgiveness of our sins? He has been preparing a home coming too. He has built for us mansions in heavenly places. We are so undeserving and Yet, His Love goes on and on. Thank you for reminding us of why we Love Jesus so much!

Mat 11:28 Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Mat 11:30 For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.

Mr. David...

What a GRAND ENTRANCE. I want to LEAP for joy. I love your transparency and your love for our God, Jesus.

Welcome, and again welcome.

May the Lord bless you today.

By the way...

I am the chief of sinners.

Come on now, you make yourself equal with Paul the apostle in saying that I already talked to Paul about that so now he is thinking of taking second place to me.

AW naw, ya didn't.



Man, and I thought I was the only one who hashed it out with him. Dang. Wonder how many others he's talked to???

Thank you all for your warm words of welcome. I am truely blessed to share fellowship with all of you. My only desire is to obey God's laws of love and to be your servant.

I thought it would be good to share a thought with you for your consideration. It is that our Father has provided us teachers everywhere. The change of the seasons with the life, death and rebirth of the grass under the snow instruct us. Our children reveal to us Devine Truth.

My wife and I, being without children have been blessed with two little dogs to instruct us amongst the many teachers our Lord has provided.

Little Gizzy and Lucky (our little dogs) give love freely and without condition. It may sound strange but I can't even fully comprehend it let alone emulate it. They never feel worry about from where their sustinance will come. They accept the authority of their master without question and have no fear in their hearts at the approach of a stranger. They give comfort and reassurance and respond to the pain or worry of those they love with affection though they understand no language. They have no influence over their fate yet they do not struggle to control it.

How silly I must look standing next them with my doubt, fear and desire to control what I do not fully understand. The thought that we are surrounded by so many fine teachers like these fills my heart with wonder.

This dog analogy is right on. I have no kids at home either and my Pom is my teacher sent from God. I have a post on here somewheres about it (recent)