The cross the reason to believe that God is for your joy. Christ carried our sorrows and He did this for the joy set before Him – He did it so that there would be joy set before us.
If you have faith in Jesus there will be times when you are tempted to tellHim what you think He must do. Telling Jesus what He must do might sound like faith but is actually the opposite of faith
Redeeming the world from suffering must include redeeming the heart from sin. Suffering will end when sin is defeated.
And that is why Jesus came into the world – to redeem us from our suffering and sin.
Would you say that you live in the conscious knowledge that the Son of God loves you and gave Himself for you? But knowing only will not change your life. You need faith in Him and therefor have to preach the gospel to yourself everyday.
The greatest storyline of the Bible is the story of love. God is love.And through Christ we are brought into the enjoyment of that love that He has from the Father.
“I am my beloved and my beloved is mine”
Song of Solomon 6:3
What happened at Pentecost was the Holy Spirit and the Church.
When the Holy Spirit comes into your life, He testifies and reveal God to you so that you will be able to reveal Christ to others.
The God of patience who doesn’t want anyone to perish, creates an opportunity for us through His patience to grow into the image of His Son Jesus Christ.
We are looking at the love story of a king who loves his bride as a lens through which to look at the love of Christ for His own people and particularly the experiences that we have when God seems to be far away.
Through Jesus ascension there is an assurance of His finished work and giving us a future.
We now have confidence that He is in control as He rule and reign as our King until all enemies is under His feet.
We also have the knowledge of knowing that we are not alone for He sent the Holy Spirit to be with His own.
A hope for us that there is a future as He has gone to prepare a place for us and will for us to be with Him forever.
Do you feel the love of Christ for you arising out of His great sympathy, seen in the strength of His resolve, through every difficulty, despite of every deficiency, and even through the worst of disloyalty?
This disciple of Jesus Christ who was once afraid of being associated with Jesus was eventually willing to change the course – to take up his cross and give his life for Christ.
And his life still gives us a clear model of what it means to be a fully devoted disciple of Christ.
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