Bare Faced • James 5

Friends, don't complain about each other. 

A far greater complaint could be 

lodged against you, you know. 

The Judge is standing just around the corner. 

 

James 5:9

Make this your common practice: 

Confess your sins to each other and 

pray for each other so that you can 

live together whole and healed.

The prayer of a person living right with God 

is something powerful to be reckoned with. 

 

James 5:16

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We all walk in human skin.
Bearing the reality of the Fall within our very core.

How quickly logs sprout up in my eyes.

Seeing you through the forest of my own failings,
I choose to focus on yours.

I will stand one day before the Judge of our Hearts
not for what you have done, but for what is mine alone.

I cannot walk beside you
if I hold myself above you.

Tearing away the mask,
I can show you the reality in my life.

I am no better than you.

Walking together, bare faced,
we can lift each other up when we fall.

Together we walk in the Light
toward the Home of our hearts.

Loved • John 14

"Don't let this throw you. 

You trust God, don't you? 

Trust Me." 

 

John 14:1

 

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Jesus says this right after He tells Peter 

that he will deny Him three times 

before the next dawn.

I can almost see Him looking deeply 

at each one of the men sitting around Him.

I can almost see Him looking deeply at me.

His words speak to my very core.

It's like He's saying, "Yeah, you're going to deny me. 

I know that. You will fail again and again. 

Don't worry. I'm here. 

Don't trust yourself. 

Trust God – trust Me."

Thank you, Jesus, for knowing me 

through and through... for knowing that I am just dust. 

And yet You love me. 

You want me to live with You forever. 

Thank you that You give me all that I need. 

I choose to trust You.