How can we do that? The only way is to give your heart to Jesus Christ and follow His teachings. Read the Bible and learn what you are supposed to do and who you are to God. You are an adopted child through His grace because of what Jesus did for us. Life here is hard and getting harder, its worse in some places than it is in America but God gives us the strength that we need to live a successful life following Jesus.
God sent Jesus to Earth to be the sacrifice for all of humanity, so we could be reconciled to Him. Being saved from an eternity away from God and being allowed into heaven is what Jesus came to give us if we will only trust in Him and ask Him into our hearts. God loves humanity but He doesn’t like the sin that we live in every day. That is what giving your heart to Jesus can do, it changes your heart and your life to be His because when your heart changes, you want to change too.
God doesn’t leave us alone with our grief or in our state of depression. He is always near to comfort, to heal and listen. My life without Him would be a pointless existence and a waste of time because I would be doing my work and my things and not even thinking about Him at all. But…He called me to be a preacher back in 1983. Unfortunately, I ran from Him like Jonah did and I didn’t come back to Him, even a little bit, until my son started asking questions about why we went to church.
I began this blog in 2008 so it is approaching twenty years that I have been on this platform. Sometimes my posts make sense in His scheme of things and sometimes I do post a small sermon that He has given me to write. I don’t have a physical church that I preach at any more but I do have this and God has blessed me with all of you who follow this page. I pray that all of you and more will be in Heaven one day so I can meet all of you.
God does comfort us when things are rough. When our days are filled with pain and anguish, He is there beside us. His Word comforts our soul and our minds when depression hits you like a ton of bricks. When that happens I begin reading Psalms and I don’t stop until the depression is gone and my faith is renewed. The book of Proverbs helps me find a way through many of life’s struggles and there are many other Scriptures from the Old Testament and the New Testament that give me strength and hope when hope seems far away. God loves all of us, but He is not satisfied with our life choices because they go against His commandments.
Read the book of John from the beginning until the end, then read the book of Romans. In these two books you will see the love of God given to mankind through Jesus Christ and you will see His grace given to us through Jesus Christ. Faith is given to us because God wants us to be in His house because without faith we can’t believe in Jesus and become a disciple of His. With faith you can understand God’s message of love and redemption, without it God’s Word can’t be understood. Think about it and be His before it is too late.
The Living Message of Christ 