True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity.
{Crazy Love}
I have come to realize that I was holding a lot back, I wasn’t sharing the gospel or loving people the way that Christ has loved us, and continues to love us.
Was I loving everyone that I came into contact with as if they were Christ?
I remember telling a man that sat across from me in the eyeglass clinic why I believed in Jesus and why the gospel was so important to me. Again, why was it so easy for me to share with this man than with some of my friends back home, or even some family.
So here it is.
I believe in Jesus because He is the only perfect thing about me!
Through Him I have life to the fullest.
Jesus came in the form of man, He walked among the least of these, and he came so that we could live life to the fullest. He died so that we could live, our sins were with Him on that cross! Through Him we have everlasting joy and peace!
How cool is that? Christ died with me in mind, He knew that I would sin and fall away from Him, but His pursuit of my life started at the cross.
If we rely on Him fully, what in this life do we have to worry about?
Those everyday things that we worry about pale in comparison when we fully trust in His incredible love for us!
In Christ I find my joy, in Him I place my life!
“let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we precess, for he who promised is faithful.” {Hebrews 10:22,23}
One of the things that I have learned this month is that God makes us weak and brings out our weaknesses so that we can find our strength in Him. Our source of confidence should be God, our identity should be found in Christ. God wants to use us for something greater we just have to realize that through Him we are made strong.
“And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.” {2 Corinthians 12:9}
All I can say is thank you Lord for loving me, and pursuing me. Without Him I am nothing, with Him I can step out in my weakness and find strength!
Love,
Hanna
