Merciful Father

Praise God! The Lord is merciful and gracious. His patience with me has been beyond understanding.
Our Lord and God the Lord Jesus Christ placed a backslidden Christian named Cody from Wisconsin in my room at the hostel. He is traveling Mexico and is fluent in Spanish. I really blasted him with the truth in love. He was not very receptive and actually got mad, saying "My time here was ruined because you were so pushy." He has no idea the Grace of God is the only thing keeping him from destruction. He grew up in the church and was not allowed to do anything. I think his parents provoked him to rebeling. He fell away when he went to college away from his parents and threir control. I let him know about the glorious freedom in Christ Jesus and how life in Christ is not dont do this, dont do that, but everything is yes and Amen in Christ Jesus and all God ask of us is to abstain from works of the flesh (which are evident) and to be obedient to God when he works the santification in our hearts. As I tell so many Christians , God Justifies, Sanactifies and Glorifies.So many times we conceded to Justification and Glorification, but for some reason we think the Sanctification is our job. If we only knew how much of our very existence and daily walk and life are a complete relience on God "leading us not into temptaion and delivering us from the evil one" we would see we are completely powerless without Christ Jesus.God has been so patient with me in His glorious grace. I pray the Lord protects him and shows him even more patience. Then again the disciplne I received from the Lord brought me into the belly of the beast and only by the Lord and His wonderful mercy and Grace am I writing this today, from Guadalajara, Mexico on a mission no less. God is Great. Halelujah! I have been massively struggleing with lust in the flesh with all these beautiful women. I believe God is using this to teach me how to have a pure heart without being legalistic. When our Lord Jesus said, We commit adultery in our hearts, I believe he meant if we desire to cheat on our wives our with anothers wife , but never actually do. I beleive it is the sames with fornication, that we desire fornication, but never do it is the same thing. All of the Sermon on the Mount needs to be accomplished by the Spirit and cant be walked with the flesh. Knowing this I think the Lord Jesus Christ and the mighy power that raised Him from the dead will create in me a clean heart. To Gods eternal Glory. Amen.