The great exchange, our sin for forgiveness, our guilt and shame for the joy of the Lord.

We are so blessed in Jesus, we have exchanged all our misery for His love and peace, joy and mercy in time of need.

Father provided the great exchange by sending Jesus from heaven to this earth to die for all our sins, past, present and future.

We exchange our guilt and shame for His forgiveness and healing of our soul.

We exchange, sorrow for joy, unrest for peace, Guilt and shame for forgiveness, condemnation for no condemnation, and a clean slate to start over.

It all starts when we accept the sacrifice Jesus has made for us. When we believe He is our Savior and Lord. Receiving Him into our heart and life, and confessing we are His.

Romans 10:9-10
That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Then the process of training us to be disciples starts.  We read God's word and He reveals through His word, how much He loves us. Who He is, and why He came to earth.
We are more than believers, we are becoming disciples that are disciplined in the ways of the Lord, because we have read in His word. We realize we need training and disciple. Exactly as we train a child.
As we grow in the knowledge of the Lord we gain understanding, and as His children what is expected of us and how we are to love in this world. and obey God's word.

Colossians 1:9-15 (Paul's prayer to the church)
For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.  In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

Beloved, that is the great exchange, what a deal, we exchange a miserable sin filled life, for a life full of all God's goodness, His provision and His forever love for us.
Jesus said He came to give us life more abundantly. (John 10:10)

God Bless your day
Jesus loves you

Love in Jesus
Joy

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