Hello all my beautiful magnificents!!!

Hope all is going well for everyone. Never ever posted on a blog before, but i guess there's always room for a first. Haha anyway I pray everyone's doing great and that the Spirit of the Lord is still burning with fawnest in ur hearts!

Just wanted to share a short little story with you guys..

LAKE WALKING

Walking around the lake I noticed the winter had done a number on the shorelines. A season without use left a tremendous amount of debris liningthe banks and clinging to trees and shrubs.

Many of my wife's family joined us for a meal the day following this revelation. Several of the guys wanted to go for a walk. At the last secondI grabbed a handful of plastic bags and thought to pick up some of the debris I came across as we walked around the lake.

I didn't realize I was beginning a crusade. Two of the other guys picked up the battle cry and we spent a few hours picking up several trash cans full of trash; plastic bags, fast food containers, wrappers from fishing lures, plastic and glass bottles, styrofoam containers, a rubber ball, a pillow, a glove, insulation, a broken lawn chair, aluminum cans, a piece of carpet, a pair of trousers, a twenty pound bag of water softener salt,a plastic gas container and an odd assortment of chip bags.

We finished with a surprisingly real sense of accomplishment. We had single-handedly reclaimed the lake from those who carelessly left remindersof their visits behind. A few days have passed and I noticed remains of a fast food meal in an area we had cleaned just days ago and it occurred to me that the lake that was so painstakingly cleaned up has a unique kinshipto the human heart.

You see, because we all sin, our hearts get amazingly cluttered in a veryshort period of time. We contend with bits and pieces of pride, gossip, theoccasional lie, anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, envy, the desire to have what belongs to another, and the list goes on and on.

Yet there was a Man who was able to reach every area of our heart and in His crusade of holiness accepts our invitation to clean our heart by picking up and discarding the sin that so easily finds a home within our being.

And because He has observed mankind from the beginning He knows that we will need to send another invitation for a heart cleaning. He might even have to do it several times a day, but He willingly complies with our request and intentionally forgets the sinful debris He has already cleaned up.

Three guys spent three hours cleaning a lake and will remember this unusualgesture for the rest of our lives. Jesus cleans millions of hearts daily and forgets what He's cleaned up.What a mighty God we serve!

By Glenn A. Hascall

Hope the story just gives a little reminder to everyone that the forgiveness of our Lord Jesus Christ is complete and without limit. His graciousness and mercy extends even to the worst sinner and His arms are open to welcome all who call upon His name in truth. He is able to make clean every soul if we just call upon His name.

I hope this message encourages your heart to see that no matter the mistakes in your past, God is able to make clean and anew every soul as long as you call upon Him and trust in Him.

Do take lots of care k everyone and God bless!

Jem

""It is God that girdeth me with strength, and make the my way perfect. Trust the Lord to be your redeemer and know that He loves you with an everlasting love that is pure and without motive."