Figuring the angles……….

How many things come to your mind when someone says, “the angles”. In photographic terms these images from Bodie certainly play on “angles” as compositional aids. When I played high school football my defensive coach taught me to take the right, “angle” to get to the ball carrier.
I’ve often heard people say, “what is her (or his) angle” meaning what is their reason for doing something, assuming we all have a reason or motive for everything we do.

It’s probably fair to say
we all have a motive for
what we do. We all
have an angle as it were.
Mine is pretty simple, I’m
a thankful man, I’m
thankful for God’s love
and forgiveness. I’m
thankful for the family
He has allowed me to
have. I’m thankful for
my job, and the people
I get to work with. Most
of all I’m thankful that
He sent His only Son
to die for me so that I
might be forgiven.

I am especially thankful
because I could never
have earned this kind
of love. It was a gift,
given freely, without
any requirement for
anything in return. God
didn’t say If I do this for
you, I will own you,
He said when I do this
for you, you can choose
to belong to me. Free
will makes all the difference.

So what’s God’s “angle” or motive? He loves us, He wants to have fellowship with us. He does not desire that even one of us be lost. He paid the price for our separation from Him. I have given my life, and every moment of my service to Him not because He demanded it, but because what He did for me causes me to demand that of myself. I could not fail to offer my life back to Him when He saved me from certain spiritual death. He doesn’t have to request my heart, I have given it to Him as freely and He gave His Son up for me.

I come to you once again today, asking for your prayers. Today I will be the guest blogger on
Scott Kelby’s Blog. www.scottkelby.com I asked if, this time, I could share my testimony of how
God came into my life in such a powerful way, and changed me forever. I know that all that read it will not receive it, such is the nature of witnessing for Christ. I do pray, and will ask you to pray as well, that it brings powerful returns for Him. I wish for my life to be nothing more than a witness to His Greatness, His Love, His Compassion, His forgiveness, His Majesty. His Word never returns empty, I pray that the harvest from sharing it is exactly what He would desire. There it is, my “angle”………..

the pilgrim

Galatians 2:20 New Living Translation (NLT)

20 My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

May God’s manifest Love unlock the door to your heart, for His Son, Jesus Christ, to enter.