Most people come to God because of a need in their lives. We seek God's help in dealing with a problem or crisis that we cannot handle ourselves. This is natural, and God graciously receives and responds to us with love and compassion. But God uses this as the starting point for calling us to a much fuller and meaningful relationship with him. God also is seeking us, and through our needs God invites us to know him not only as the God who meets us in our difficulties, but also as the God who wants to walk with us as a constant and loving presence in every aspect of our lives. When we know God this way, we live life in a growing awareness of God's love and always are responding to God with gratitude, thanks, and praise.
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Purity Of Heart Is To Will One Thing
Often Christians approach their commitment to Jesus in a casual, even half-hearted, manner. This is not what God wants for us. God wants us to put as much or more energy and dedication in following Jesus as many people devote to things like their careers, possessions, and even their hobbies. Those things are important, but Jesus wants us to make him and following him our first and foremost commitment in our lives. We can't serve God when our hearts and efforts are directed toward the things of this world instead of toward God. There is only one God, and all our interests in life are to be place under God's reign and used for God's purposes!
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Sweet Child Of God
The infinite God loves each one of us without limits! The very reason God became human and lived among us in Jesus is what Jesus himself said, "to seek and save that which was lost"! Jesus came not just to identify with us but to rescue us from our sin and rebellion and bring us back to what we are created from the very beginning to be - a loved and blessed child of the living God. Yes, God accepts and loves where we are, but in Jesus God seeks to bring us from where we are to where God wants us to be. When any of us allow Jesus to rescue us from our indifference, rebellion, and rejection of God in our lives, this is a cause for great celebration. Jesus tells us that all heaven is filled with joy, led by the Father of us all who sent Jesus to find us and bring us back to him safe and sound.