Thoughts...Prostitution Vs The God who fills everything in Everyway...*

Tonight I drove down Voortrekker Road,and as I've been driving since 2001, I hardly am in a passenger's seat when passing the prostitutes, so its a bit unreal at times for me. I also wonder sometimes if one day I'd see someone I'd know...But today while driving I tried to look at the girls, and as what normally happens when I do this, I cannot but help feel compassionate for those girls and say a prayer that their roads will somehow cross with God's. Because when I look at them, I see what I could have been figuratively. I see women who have resorted to allowing themselves to be used in the hope that somehow life would turn better, yet with every giving losing some of who they are. I see women who are bad in our eyes, women who we won't make eye contact with, women with hard, empty eyes...women who step boldly in the road, women unafraid of the night, for money...for their families...for what they think is hope to make life better...or for what has become their life, their familiar...Women who are so empty that giving their bodies is nothing. Women who are merely objects of lust in the eyes of some and disgust in others...

In God's eyes?

Priceless.
Worth Fighting for...
Precious in His sight.

It's the kindness of God which leads men to repentance... I pray that the kindness of God would cross the paths of these women and I know as they bump into Grace, all evil and bondages must flee... I pray that their eyes would be opened, the eyes of their hearts...

Ok, so back to them and me... It's the kindness of God that leads men to repentance. Today I walk with my head tall because of his great mercy towards me. That is the heart of God. To fill our emptiness with His fullness. To pick us up, dust us off and build us anew again, into who He has initially designed us to be..."Where would I be if not for his grace"...

Would I be in Voortrekker exchanging my body for Rands and cents and the occasional abusive hit? Would I be dancing and drinking and numbing my mind from the hurt and pain while pretending even to myself that it's all good, and that right now I'm just going to go all out and live for the moment and enjoy life? Would I be living only by my opinions, reasonings, things that only I can prove, I determine, I choose to believe proof or no proof...
Where would I be if not for his grace.

BUT GOD,

Ephesians 2:4 - 5 "But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved."

Ephesians 2:1 - 10 NKJV

" 1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
4 BUT GOD who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them."

Ephesians 1:23
" 23which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way."

God longed to save us out of the life that was slowly eating us away, and to fill us with His Fullness in every way...

This is the God we serve. Let us drink of his cup, Let us seek his depths and his fulfillment. Let us live his ways, or ask him to teach us his ways...

We were not left without hope and God has become our God of Hope so we could too be a beacon of light for those who don't know Him. However this light too comes from knowing him and living in Him.

But in the same way as a whole new lifestyle can be built up through prostitutionism, so a life of honouring God can build up as we pray, reach out too others,grow in the knowledge and relationship with him, share the love of God with each other as friends...and mostly as we sit before the most Holy God to pour out his presence on us in our quiet time. Let us allow him to fill and complete us, like no man can.

And let us continue praying and reaching out to those who exchanged truth for a lie, without even knowing about it.

Let us keep believing the best for every situation, even if it takes years to see the changes, and let us continue loving and serving the Lord amidst the challenges.

Thoughts...

Still to add the blessings God blessed me with at camp, but just to add a niggling thought about people. It's amazing how people will see something, not confirm it and pass the story on and on...I know I have at times told my best friend something,but right now, I'm just like why dont people come and confirm the truth with you.?

Otherwise, God is busy picking up the pieces of my dreams...

Chan