"Jesus LOVES you!" Please let those words sink in for a moment. Please let the power of those words sink in for a moment. The God of everything you see around you....the creator of anything and everything that has ever and will ever exist sent His son down to our messed up, corrupted world to do something never done before. To live a perfect life, die an undeserving death and defeat satan by taking the power of death away from him by rising again. In doing this He also defeated the power of sin with love and gave us the ability to defeat sin in our own lives...and to walk in a new found freedom by simply believing He is who He says He is, asking Him to cleanse you of the sin you have allowed in your life, and changing your ways to live for Him. God made a way that without Jesus could not be made...simply because He loved us that much. That is the gospel. It is to simply not to share and to deep to even try to wrap your head around. He did what He did out of love. He had nothing to gain from it except to create a way to spend eternity with the very people He created and loves.
When I think about this....when I really sit and think about this, it wrecks me every time. And then I ask myself how I could go so many years living such a self centered and selfish life. I ask myself how many people did I have the chance to share this simple truth with over the years, but I was to wrapped up in my own stuff to do it? And then I ask myself "could I forgive someone like me and love and accept them?" Thank God I don't have to comprehend His love, I just have to accept and let it change me. And since the day I surrendered to Him He has changed me so much that I don't even recognize the person I used to be. I don't say that as a way to pump myself up or toot my own horn, I say that as a PRAISE to Him for never giving up on me when I had given Him every reason to. I say that as an HONOR to Him for His ability to cleanse someone like me, get me to see my own sin and turn from it...and put a burning desire in me to see others set free and set on fire for Him.
In John 8:12 Jesus said "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life". This means that what Jesus brought into this earth when He walked on it is something we can walk in daily. We can carry that same light that He carried. Not because we are anything special, but because we give Him the freedom to shine in us and in our life. And when you let Jesus really live in you then the words in Matthew 5:14 can't help but be true..."You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden."
Don't let anything...not your circumstances, not anything, hide the light that Jesus has placed in you. The moment the enemy learns he can control how much you let Jesus' light shine based on your circumstances, then he will just continue to try to mess with your circumstances to keep you "quiet". But when you show him that you will praise God OUT LOUD simply because of what He did for you, and not because of how good or bad things look, THEN you are truly stamping out the darkness with the light.
If what I said in the beginning of this blog has not really sank in with you before....just how much God loves you and desires closeness with you....then please let that sink in right now. And no matter where you are right in this moment, reach out to Him and open your heart up in a way that you never have before. Surrender to Him the very thing that He desires the most....your heart. Then allow Him to show you a peace, a joy, a love, a forgiveness, and a value in yourself that you have never felt before.
Dying for me is the most He could do for me...Living for Him is the least I could do. And by that I mean truly living a life that honors Him.
God, I may never be able to comprehend the love that You have for us, but I fully accept it and ask that You help me show that love to others. God I pray that You radically change my life more and more every day as I surrender more and more of myself to You. Thank You for never giving up on me...and now I ask that You please never stop growing me in You. Let Your light shine so bright in me that people see more of You than they do me. And give me the courage to tell others about why my life is so different so I can serve one of my many purposes here on earth...to win others to You! In Jesus name, Amen
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