We are living in difficult times. There seems to be trouble brewing everywhere we look. There is also a darkness that seems to have fallen upon our world and things do seem to be getting darker day by day. Many people try to find a way to escape from the void that they feel in their hearts by turning to drugs, alcohol, or other things to try to kill the pain they feel deep inside themselves.
Those things may make a person feel better for a very short period of time, but eventually the high wears off and they find themselves feeling worse then they did before and perhaps with less money. I have said it many times before, but I will say it again, there is so much anger in people's hearts these days and it is not a pretty sight.
I work with the public and sometimes people just don't act right. I have seen people yell at their kids over relatively small things. I say one young boy ask his mother for a lemon and she yelled, "No! You can't have a lemon!" Then the boy said, "Can I have an apple? I will share it with you, Mom." She did allow him to have the apple at least. It just makes me wonder if people act like this in public, how do they act at home?
Sometimes we believers and followers of Jesus Christ feel helpless. We feel like we should be doing more. We start pointing fingers and placing blame for all the problems that the world has. Some people even go so far as to blame the Church. There is plenty of blame to go around and sometimes there is some truth in the blame, but the blame is found in each person's heart.
We have all failed to do things that we ought to do. We are all weak and powerless on our own against the powers of darkness. We all have sinned and we all have fallen short of God's high standards. We are all deserving of spending eternity in a literal hell and out side the presence of a Holy God.
There is none of us that is good enough on our own to enter into Heaven. There are no amount of good works that we can accomplish to earn our way into Heaven. Our prestige won't get us in. Our wealth won't. Our celebrity status won't either. There is only one name under Heaven in which people must be saved by and that is the name that is above all names, Jesus Christ.
God sent His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, to earth on a rescue mission to save us from our sins. Jesus came into the world to live a perfect and sinless life. Jesus went and died on the Cross for our sins. It is by the shed blood of Jesus Christ that we are saved from our sins and have eternal life in Heaven we die. God make a way through the darkness. We can be set free from the darkness through Jesus Christ. We must come humbly to the Lord and confess that we are a sinner and we can't save ourselves. Then we must receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
We are saved by grace through our faith in the finished work that Jesus Christ accomplished upon the Cross. We must take a stand for the truth of who God is. We must continue to read the Bible and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to those all around us. People need to be set free from their darkness and Jesus can do just that.
We believers in Jesus must continue to trust Him. We must surrender ourselves to the lead of the Holy Spirit and we must love the Lord and each other. Things are dark, but we have great everlasting hope in Jesus Christ and we must never forget that.
Trust. Surrender. Love.
Lord,
We praise Your Name.
Help us to trust You above everything else.
Help us to surrender ourselves to Your care.
Help us to love You with our entire being.
Lead us and guide our steps by Your Holy Spirit.
Help us to love our neighbors as ourselves.
Help us to love each other.
May Your will be done.
In Jesus Name we pray,
Amen.
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