Why do I say this in the title? Because God would not have sent His Son to redeem you or me or anyone else on Earth if He didn’t think you are important.
God has a plan for each of us. He can bring blessings into your life that you cannot imagine. I don’t mean that He is going to drop millions of dollars into your bank account, He gives you what you need when you need it. Remember, Jesus told the disciples that the hair of your head is numbered and that God even watches over the sparrows of the field and knows when one falls to the ground. If He cares for His creation enough to keep up with sparrows, don’t you think He cares for you even more?
God had a plan for each of us long before we were born, even before the foundation of the world, so that should tell you that you are important to Him. We are important enough for God to come down in the form of His Son in human flesh to redeem the sin nature that began in the Garden of Eden. He wants a relationship with you and He was willing to pay the price for it to come about.
Jesus taught His disciples for three years about the Father and His plans and what we should do with our salvation. Give it away! Others need to know the good news of Christ and the atonement that He paid for with His life and His resurrection that we celebrate this weekend. Jesus said, “I am the way, the Truth and the Life, no one can come to the Father except through Me.”
Even the thief on the cross believed in Jesus and His Kingdom and it was enough to bring salvation to His soul. Remember, no one is guaranteed another day to live. Make sure of your salvation before tonight is over because your eternity depends on it.
Jesus said, “What is it that I should do for you?” “Lord, I want to see!”
Lord, I want to see! Do you? Can you see? The work of Jesus allows us to see His work and His salvation. The blind man wanted to see and we should want to see. Physical sight is wonderful because of all of the beauty that is seen in God’s natural world all around us. He created all of it but have you ever wondered what you would see if your spiritual eyes were open as well?
The blind man, Bartimeaus, wanted to see with his eyes but when his physical eyes were healed I believe that his spiritual eyes were opened as well. He could see Who it was that had healed him. He could see that it was the Messiah, Jesus the Son of God! Few people in Jesus’ day could see that He was the Christ, the Messiah that had been foretold many hundreds of years before because they didn’t want to see Him. The priests didn’t want to see another Teacher, although He was that. They didn’t want to hear about a prophet from Nazareth or Galilee. They knew that the Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem but they didn’t know that He had been born there and that He was from the line of David.
Lord, I want to see! They didn’t see their Savior because of their idea of Him. He was supposed to be a conqueror and King. He was and He is but He didn’t come the first time as a King…He came as our Savior to pay the price for our souls to bring us back into a right and consecrated life through the blood of His sacrifice on the cross. He knew that it was about to happen soon because He was on the way to Jerusalem for His last Passover with His disciples before His crucifixion.
Why is it that even today people have their idea of salvation and how to obtain it? They think that somehow they have to help God to fix their life so they can be saved. Your life doesn’t need fixing but your heart needs to be remade into the image of the heart of Jesus. The Holy Spirit will come into your heart and change it so that it will reflect His image and His way of living every day afterward. We can’t do anything that will change us or clean us up enough to be ready to give our life to Jesus. When you feel that you need Him and that you are lost and going to hell without Him, that is when you can see that you are not enough without Jesus in your life.
I pray that many of you who read this will seek Him out as your Savior today because many of us don’t have tomorrow. We are not guaranteed another day of life but eternity is a very long time, make sure of your destination and that it is with the Lord.
Jesus paid our price. He took the sins of the entire world on Himself to bring humanity back into a right relationship with Himself and with God. Your sins and mine are the reason that Jesus went to the cross, as well as the sins of all of the people from ages past until now. Seek Him for your salvation while there is time to do so. We are living in the age of grace between the crucifixion and the time of tribulation which is coming. But we are coming to the end of that period of grace, please make sure of your salvation in Jesus Christ before that time gets here.
Many of us think that we are alone, even when we are in a crowd. Sometimes this feeling gets to be overwhelming and people think of suicide because the loneliness feels like it is crushing them. I’ve felt this way myself although I’ve usually prayed about it and God has given me peace enough to carry on.
Anyway, when you have accepted Jesus as your Savior you are never alone because His Holy Spirit is always there to comfort and guide you through troubled times. He never leaves you once you have truly opened your heart to Him and asked Him to come in and save you from yourself. It is your sins and your own life that is at stake after all. God knew this long before any of us were born. Jesus did all of this because of His love for us.
Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world, whether you have been taught this or not, it is the Truth of Scripture. God’s Word is true in all aspects, I pray that everyone who reads this will seek Him for their salvation. This age that we have lived in for nearly 2000 years is coming to an end. There is nothing which has to happen before Jesus calls His Bride, the church, to come home except the salvation of those who have been called by the Holy Spirit. If you have felt this in your heart, please seek your Savior soon and accept Him as your Savior.
God loves you and He has paid the price for our sins through the sacrifice of His Son, the Lamb of God. Do not refuse this gift of God because it has been given to each of us. The greatest gift ever given to humanity in the Person of Jesus Christ.
Jesus is the only way for your salvation. Seek Him while there’s time to find Him.
Then they were yelling, “Crucify Him!” Less than twelve hours later. How much that crushed our Lord’s heart we cannot know, but I’m sure that it did.
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John 1:29 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/jhn.1.29.KJV
He came to pay the penalty for all of us and He did. All you have to do is believe in Him for your salvation.
