According to the Bible and the prophecies He was/is Immanuel…God came here to be one of us! He was a human for the life that He lived while He lived with His human parents. Was He God? Yes, He was and is God the Son. He laid His divinity down and became one of His creations, the people that He loved and still loves more than His life.
While He was here in the flesh of mankind He felt everything that we feel during our lives. He felt hunger, thirst, sadness, weariness, love and anger. Yet He did not sin in all of His human feelings. He did this not because He had to but because He LOVED us! This is the same reason that He died on the cross and rose again on the third day! I pray that anyone who needs a Savior will seek to know Him while there is time to call on Him and then answer His call that comes back to us. He wants to know you, even though He already does. He wants to be involved in your life daily so please don’t push His call away like some telemarketer.
What is the god that nearly every person has problems with? We usually think it is pride, money, or “things” that all of us seem to have or covet because others have. Likely, selfishness is the god that we serve more than any other. I don’t mean that we are selfish in our dealings with each other, I mean that we are selfish in our service to Jesus. We are “working for Jesus” to elevate ourselves in the eyes of others. We are living as Pharisees in this modern world. The same “religious fakes” that Jesus said seven woes to because they were doing things and teaching people their ways and not God’s ways.
As the church, we should be working for God and His purposes and not for our own enrichment and personal gain. Do what you can for others, tell people about Jesus but don’t do it so others can see you do it. Allowing others to see your “work” for God is the same thing the Pharisees were doing on the streets when they fasted so others knew that they were fasting. Pray for others and the church so the message of salvation will be told inside and outside the building.
Unfortunately in the world we live in right now there are less than five percent of Christians who truly possess the salvation that they profess. God wants many more to come to Jesus for their salvation but few will truly find the path that leads to Him. I pray for every person who reads this post to seek Jesus as your Savior. Give your life and your heart to Him and live in His Presence every day in prayer and meditation on His Word. It will take some effort and it won’t be an easy path to follow but the reward will be fantastic! Far above what this world can offer.
Paul the Apostle wrote this many years ago but is relevant today: “As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.” Ephesians 4:1
As Christians, we are called by Jesus to become one of His disciples. Not to become rich or famous but to live your life so that anyone around you can see that there is something different about you. Yes, we are called to be different from the world around us because the people that we meet every day need to know Jesus Christ. Some of them do know Him but many don’t and if we don’t live and breathe any differently than the rest of the world…what will show them that our life is different or better than we used to be?
Considering the sacrifice and the torture that Jesus went through for our salvation, there is no way we can repay Him except by living our lives walking with Him every day. It is the least we can do for Him since He did so much for all of us long before we were born. God had a plan for your life and mine and we should walk according to His Word every day with the Holy Spirit leading us because we can’t do it on our own.
Many have made sacrifices to live for Jesus and many more will do so before the Kingdom begins at the end of the Tribulation but it will be worth it! God’s grace and mercy are ours according to His promises when we accept Jesus as our Savior and eternity with Him is the promise I’m looking forward to. Amen? Make sure of your eternity before your “end of days” comes because we don’t know when that day is.
God has always sought to have fellowship with mankind. He did so in the Garden and wanted it to continue during history yet mankind would not continue their fellowship with Him. Why do we only seek God’s favor and Presence when we need Him? When something happens, like a sudden death or a problem we can’t handle, we seek Him and His favor in whatever situation. But, when the “problem” is resolved we thank Him, sometimes, and go our way until we need Him again.
God is as near to us as a breath but we don’t want to acknowledge Him until some crisis happens. Call on God and tell Him that you are thankful for His blessings because He gives every breath you take to you and me. He watches over the birds and every person on Earth but many of us don’t thank Him for it unless we have a need that only He can fill. We need to stop regarding Him as some kind of “genie” that we only call on during our troubles.
God created each of us and if you have felt His call on your life I beg you to answer it. We are living during the most unusual time in our history and each day shows more Biblical prophecy coming true. Over the past fifty years or more, preachers and theologians have taught that we were coming into this time but we can see it on the news every day now. Every day brings some part of the prophetic puzzle to light and one day the puzzle will be finished. It may take another decade but it could come to the finish sooner than anyone expects it to.
The prophecies in the Bible are coming true and many of them are coming true as you watch the news. I pray that anyone who is looking for a Savior will seek Jesus today. Don’t put it off because none of us are guaranteed to be here tomorrow! He died for our sins and God had this planned ever since Adam and Eve disobeyed in the Garden. Make sure that you give your heart to Jesus and then study the Bible to get to know Him better, especially the books of Romans, John, and the book of Revelation.
But Jesus said it applies to all Christians too.
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