Are You Stuck? Jesus Offers Change.
Change will take place when we believe more fully in more areas of our lives the things that are found there. Take heart today, you can change. If you are trusting in Jesus, God will never give up on changing you from who you used to be into who you were made to be.
Are You Insecure? Jesus Offers Significance.
If you belong to Jesus, the old you is dead, and the life you now live carries a value that does not come from any personal achievement, accolade or attribute. You are priceless because of God’s unrelenting love for you in Christ. He doesn’t love you because you’re beautiful, witty, popular, fit, wealthy, fast, intelligent, kind, influential or talented; He loves you because you’re His.
Are You Confused? Jesus Offers Guidance.
The uncertainties, complexities and perplexities that we face were never meant for us to handle alone, but rather are intended to redirect and reorient us to Jesus and greater dependency on Him to guide us as He knows best.
Are You Struggling? Jesus Offers Deliverance.
Today there will be a tug-of-war for control of your thoughts, feelings, motives, attitudes, words and actions, pulling you in the opposing directions of what sin entices you into and what God invites you into. The enemy wants you to give in to a life of little or no thought of God and His ways, and give up on all the wonderful things that God has for you in Jesus. But you do not have to give in or give up!
Are You Hurting? Jesus Offers Comfort.
What God offers us in Jesus is a real comfort that doesn’t wear off. It will out-last and out-match whatever hardships we must endure in our mission for Him, our journey with Him and our homecoming to Him. It’s an encouraging, strengthening, sustaining help from the very presence of God that doesn’t show up once the trial is over, but rather joins us right in the middle of it.
Are You Discouraged? Jesus Offers Joy.
The message of the world is to “do what you want to do and be who you want to be” and this will make you happy, and it plays on repeat in advertising, conversations, entertainment, politics, news, books, talk shows and in our heads all throughout the week. Only… It. Does. Not. Work.
Are You Disappointed? Jesus Offers Satisfaction.
We’ll be more satisfied with what we have in life and less dissatisfied with what we don’t have in life when we are fully satisfied with all we have in Jesus.
Are You Troubled? Jesus Offers Peace.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. – John 14:27 ------------------------ No matter how tough we are, how removed we are, how indifferent we are, or how...
Christmas Is The Gospel
Today, let us not linger in our sin and shame and setback, but repent and rejoice in Jesus and restart moving forward in loving obedience by faith as the joyous strains of this song plays on repeat in our hearts: “Grace, grace, God’s grace, grace that will pardon and cleanse within; grace, grace, God’s grace, grace that is greater than all our sin.”
Glory To God In The Highest
The point of creation and Christmas and the coming new creation is that God is glorious, and He desires to be seen as such by a joy-filled, peace-filled, hope-filled people that He has made and redeemed for Himself. The Scripture stories of Christmas are ripe with this: Good news of… Great joy.
