“Love the Lord your God with
all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind, and love your neighbor as
yourself." - Luke 10:27
You may be experiencing the
worse that life has to offer. Maybe you lost your home, your mate, your child
or your job. You may be devastated right now with your stomach in knots,
confusion ambushing your mind and no resources to depend upon. Do not attempt
to get through these distressing and demoralizing times by yourself. You may
put a bandage on the problems, but this is simply a temporary and superficial
healing.
There is a Friend who sticks
closer than a brother (Proverbs 18:24). He will walk with you and guide you through the depths of your grief,
suffering and uncertainty. There is no other friend that compares to a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ (1 John 3:1).
In Christ, the healing from your loss will be total and complete. If you do not
have the Lord Jesus Christ in your life, I want to encourage you come to know
Him as your personal Savior. His love will never let you go.
You may think that God could
never love you because of all the wrong actions and decisions you made in your
life. There are numerous accounts in the Bible where God forgave vile sinners.
God loves each person the same. You can be confident of His unconditional love
for you (John 3:16). All He
wants is for you to believe and cease your sinful behavior (Matthew
21:32). Then, He will reach down his
Father’s arms and pick you up and hold you until your fears and pain are gone (Psalm
68:5). The Holy Spirit will restore your
life to sanity, stability and order if you will follow His leading moment by
moment throughout your day.
Have the courage to
completely release the shredded remnants of your existence and embrace His will
for your life. He hears the prayers of the afflicted (Psalm
10:17). He encourages us and listens to
us when we cry out to Him (1 John 5: 14-15; Psalm 54:2). He keeps every one of our tears in a bottle and
records them in His book (Psalm 56:8). He
defends the fatherless, the oppressed and the widow. He removes the terror from
our life (Psalm 10:17-18).
Surrendering your life to Christ is the first step of faith. If you sincerely
pray to release control over your life to God, He will immediately act upon it.
The words of your prayers are not as important as your heartfelt motives.
At just the right moment,
when we were powerless over sin and our ungodly ways, Christ died for us. While
we were still sinning, God demonstrated His love for us by sending His only
begotten Son to die in our place. Jesus justifies us by His blood and saves us
from God’s wrath. Even when we were still God’s enemies, Jesus reconciled us to
God by His death and saved us through His life (Romans 5: 6-10). Once we repent of our sins, God remembers them no more (Romans 8:1; Hebrews 8:12).
Jesus is the only way, truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Him (John 14:6). We cannot enter heaven through our own good deeds or morally upright behavior. We cannot go to heaven by joining a church, getting baptized or living in a Christian home. Salvation is a free gift from God and there is no way we can boast about it (Ephesians 2: 8-10). Eternal life is free, but only those who believe in and surrender control of their lives to Jesus will receive it (John 3:36).
Prayer:
Lord Jesus, I turn complete control of my life over to You. Thank You for forgiving me of my self-centered lifestyle. Thank You for adopting me into Your family. Hold me, protect me, nurture me and comfort me. Reassure me that You have everything under Your control. Thank You for plucking me out of my old lifestyle and giving me this wondrous new life in You. I will live each day in Your will with the knowledge that You already secured for me my eternal destination. Thank You for all you do for all of us each and every day.
Thought for the Day:
God’s love for us defies
description, because it is more than we can comprehend.