August 18, 2020
Friday, August 21, 2020 at 11:12AM August 18
Running with Jesus
Acts 3:19-21 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Peter’s message was the same message we preach hundreds of years later and it never gets old. In this morning’s devotion, I found sweet words to my soul. Repent, turn to God, he wipes my sin away and then we’ll find refreshment from the presence of the Lord.
The only way we can function is by running with Jesus. He always brings us back to the Father where we find refreshment for our tired weary souls. Life wears us down and out, can I get an AMEN over that one. Once we come to know Christ, Satan has lost our souls and then he wears us out seeking to grab our joy which will lead us into all kinds of emotions that put us on a roller coaster ride through life. People, places and things that we attach our souls to, fail us and disappoint us and these are your joy robbers. Let a person say one word and off we go on a downward spiral. Let life place us in an undesired place and we squirm and moan and complain. We depend on things to make us happy but in time we want something else and we are never satisfied.
When we lose all the above and realize it is only Jesus we need to depend on, we can have a contented life and people, places and things come and go yet we are still stable. It is in Him that we find refreshment.
What is holding your joy back that you need to let go of this morning? Run to Jesus and let Him give you refreshment. He will restore our joy and give us just what we need to go through each day. He is a well of water flowing up for us to drink from and sustains us.
Father, thank You for restoring my soul this morning and help my dear sweet friends have just a little taste from the spring of life and enable them to keep running today. We love You and ask You to forgive and help us become the free person You created us to be.
Let’s keep staring intently to this refreshing, can’t wait to run with you and Jesus in the morning.
Judy Hollaway
Originally penned 2015
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