reflections on the love that changes everything
It is not God who condemns us, it is our sin that condemns us. But Jesus has taken our sins away from us and given us new life in a new ship, and with him as our captain, he will safely pilot us to the safe harbor of the wonderful future he has in store for us.
We try to live a good life, and by a “good life”, I mean a life that makes a positive difference in a long-term sense, and we try to live that kind of life without God’s power in us. And this is tragic because God has put all the power that we need for life with Him in the Bible, his Word.
Focusing on Jesus will help us to start, and continue the race with perseverance.
With our focus on Jesus, we can have resilience when our possessions perish.
Though we suffer now, Jesus came into the world to make us children of God, give us the promise of future glory, and unite us with him, and nothing, not even death, will ever separate us from him and his great love for us.
Jesus is God’s righteousness for us because he has fully fulfilled all the ways that we fall short.
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It hurts to live as a broken person in this broken world, but with Jesus we have unshakeable hope.
This is a time in history when it is crucial that we live in a close, intimate relationship with God so that we can respond well to this pandemic for our own sake and for the sake of others.
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Farewell to Shadowlands 