Friday, February 27, 2009

Here is life, it’s all about love.

Isaiah 41:10
“Fear not, for I Am with you.
Be not dismayed, for I Am your God.
I will strengthen you; yes I will help you.
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”

This is truth and this is reality. You have no reason to fear or walk in the spirit of timidity, for God is with you. He strengthens you, even renewing your strength, strengthening you out of Zion. He helps you. He will uphold you with His righteous right hand. He is God. He is your portion. He is your exceedingly great reward. Praise the Lord, save! Oh King, answer us when we call on You, when we call on You in truth.

Here is hope. Here is future. Here is stability. Here is life.

Now the harvest is white. As the country, yea the world, teeters on hopelessness and searches for answers. As savings disappear, and lives break under the weight of lost dreams and work that came to nothing, we look for answers.

Jesus – He is the only answer to the human spirit. He brings light where the path is dark. He brings hope where dreams are lost. He brings joy where all joy has been overtaken by despair. Here is the King. Here is the hope of the world. Here is the faithful One. Are you looking for a savior? Are you looking for answers to these questions of what to do in uncertain times?

Pray the prayer of faith – “Jesus, help me now. I need You in my life. If you are real, if you really are love and hope and joy and the way to go, come now into my life. Forgive me of any sin I have. I give my heart to You.”

He will come and meet you in your need, right where you are at. He is gracious and kind and slow to anger, He is abounding in love. He is not mostly mad or mostly sad or mostly disappointed in you. He is a loving King who longs to have a relationship with man. He has extended His hand, He has made a way to come to Him – His Name is Jesus. It’s all about love. It really is.

Here is where the great battle in the Heavenlies is being played out… for the human heart, and for the affections and allegiance of the hearts of men. Whom will you serve? To what will give your life? We will all of us pour out our lives and strength towards some end. The question is what will that be for you?

Eternity really is set before you. The immortality of the soul is the reality of our lives. We’re only on this earth for 70 or 80 years, and then we step into life – forevermore, with God or without. Choose this day whom you will serve. Will you choose Jesus? He who is life? Choose life. He will bring life, love, peace and purpose into your life. He is the only way, He is the only truth, He is the only life. It’s all about love, all of it.

For God so loved the world that He gave His Son Jesus into the world to make a way for men to be saved – to make a way for us to come to God. It is a very easy thing. Just believe. Just trust. We are saved then not by any works we may do, but by faith – just believing in our hearts that Jesus is the Son of God and confessing with our mouths, “Jesus, I believe.”

This is life. This is love. This is hope. This is peace. Are you searching for answers? Are you looking and looking for the way you should go? Believe in Jesus and He will be as a light to your feet and as a lamp to your path – showing you the way you should go.

It’s all about love. It’s not about anything else. It’s about just letting go and letting God love you as He would. You see, at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for us – the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, but for a good man, someone might possibly dare to die. But Jesus demonstrated His love for us in this, while we were still sinners, He died for us, to pay for our sin, and to make a way for us to be with Him.

He does love you now, but He will only manifest that love with life, joy, peace, hope, even fun, when we believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths that Jesus, is the Christ, and Lord of our lives.

Try me in this. Test even now, my words and see if they are true. Do you have anything to lose? You have everything to gain, if only I am telling the truth. Do you want to know what it’s like to come home and to be completely at peace? Do you want to know what life is like when your heart is sure and you have hope and joy? Have you ever longed to know, just for a second, what it is like, to be fully loved with no shame and no condition? Have you ever been overwhelmed by love?

Here is life.

This is what it is like to face each morning of each day with purpose, with vision, with the feeling of God’s hand on your life. It’s all about love.

Jesus is waiting, standing at the door of your heart, knocking and saying, “If you will only let me in, and give your life to Me, I will do such a work in your life you would not have believed if someone tried to tell you.” It will be better than you think, greater than you know, this overtaking love.

He is the creator of the world and also the maker of you. Do you know the way He loves you? Do you know the way He longs to come into your life and bring order and life and joy and hope and peace?

He can bring stability where there is chaos.
He can bring peace where there is only storm.
He can bring love even to the most dejected and jaded.

He is love.

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up our wounds.
He can tell your shattered heart to beat again, beat once more oh broken heart!
He can bring love to a marriage that has given way to necessity instead of intimacy.
He can do all things, even that which we think is impossible.

Will you let Him love you?
Will you just take that chance?

You have the world to gain; you have only love to find.
He can make your heart alive once more.
Just let Him love you.

Here is life, it’s all about love.

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