Jesus Christ is Our Only Hope

The world is a crazy place.  There is a lot of anger and it all can be so very discouraging.  Things in this life seem to be moving at lightening speed.  We are all familiar with the old adage, "Time flies when you're having fun."  Sometimes it's really not much fun at all.  Life is hard and stressful.  There are a lot of voices in this world vying for our attention.

There is One voice we all must and need to hear and that is God's still small voice.  God is speaking to each one of us, but unfortunately we are so busy that we fail to listen.  There are people all around us that never give God a thought throughout their lives.  God loves them and He showers them with blessings, but they fail to believe in Him.

God is real and He is indeed alive.  God created the Heavens and the earth.  He created everything seen and unseen.  He is our Maker.  We are made in His image.  We are special to God.  I didn't always know God.  There was a time when I never gave God a single thought.  Thankfully, the Lord drew me towards Himself over time and He used many people on the way.

I was invited to church by my brother's wife many years ago now and I started to read the Bible for the first time after that.  I learned that I was a sinner and that I was headed for a literal hell if I were to die in my sins.  I learned I needed a Savior.  I needed Jesus Christ.  It was out of God's great love for you and I that God sent us His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth to die on the cross for sinners such as you and I.

Why would God go to all that trouble?  It is because He loves us that much.  Many people want nothing to do with God nowadays.  There doesn't seem to be a reverence for God even in our Churches.  I live in New England where it is said that many people do not have faith in the Lord.  Many Churches have shrunk in numbers and many are closing the doors.

It is a dry and thirsty land where there is no fresh flowing water.  It is a dry spiritual landscape where there is no faith in the True Living God.  God is calling out to people to repent of their sins and place their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved.  God doesn't want anyone to go to hell and be separated from Him forever.

We are saved by the grace that Jesus offers us.  We are not saved by works, but be grace alone.  We must receive this grace by placing out faith in Jesus Christ.  We do this by coming to Him in prayer and confessing to Him that we are a sinner and can't save ourselves.  Then we must ask Jesus Christ to forgive us our sins and trust in Him and His finished work that He accomplished for us by dying for our sins, past, present, and future.

God raised Jesus to life on the third day and He is now at the right hand of the Father in Heaven interceding for us in prayer.  When we come to faith in Christ we must continue to grow in Christ through the reading of the Bible, God's Holy Word, and being led by the Holy Spirit who indwells everyone who has trust Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

I hope that I have been a good witness for the Lord and that somehow people see the Lord's work in my life.  Hopefully, God can use me for His glory and draw some people to Himself by using me.  I am not really skilled at many things.  I fail a lot.  I act foolish and immature at times.  Maybe even a little childish (ok...a lot childish) at times.  I can be stubborn, cranky, mean, funny, and even angry at times.  I am soft spoken and misunderstood often.  I come off as aloof and uncaring.  I many faults.  I think way too much and can be overly sensitive.  I may seem cold and distant.  I am thankful for God's amazing grace.  I am saved by the shed blood of Jesus Christ.  I am saved by the grace of Jesus Christ.  I am thankful that the Lord can use someone like me for His glory and pray that He will continue to use me to draw others into a relationship with Himself through Jesus Christ the Lord.

I am deeply concerned about people's spiritual condition.  I fear that many are not ready to enter into eternity.  We are all appointed a day in which we will die and then after that we will appear before God in Judgment.  We will all have to give an account of how we lived our lives here on earth to the Living God.

Those who have rejected God's Son, Jesus Christ, will be sent to a literal hell because they refused to receive the forgiveness of their sins through Jesus Christ.  There is only one name under heaven that we must be saved by and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Those who have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior will enter into Heaven where there will be no more pain, tears, or death.   We will be with the Lord forever and ever.  Jesus Christ is our true living hope and we can trust Him with our salvation and our everyday lives as well.  God is good and He loves us.

May the Lord use us to spread the Gospel to those around us.

Lord,
Thank You for Your love and all that You have done for us.
I pray for my family and co-workers that don't know You O Lord.
I pray that You would use me to reach out to them before it is too late.
In Jesus Name I pray,
Amen.