God the everlasting, always with us!

Deuteronomy 31.8

"It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed." (ESV)

Think about that our God has made this promise for us in Christ, to never leave us. Whenever we feel like it or not, he will be with us, and he will also help us on our journey. Some of us may be a little frightened and thinking: "Will he watch every step that I go?". Yes he will! This is positive news, if you have accepted his son as Lord and Saviour, he will never leave you or forsake you.

We should always keep this in our mind, that he is always with us, thru the Holy Spirit, that dwells in us. God can't lie, or go back on his promises. So if we welcome Jesus into our lives, his spirit is with us whereever we go. When we wake up, or during the day, or thru the night he is still there. What an awesome God he is!

Let us always remind us, when we are feeling lonely, that Christ was hung on the cross outside the city, away from his people, to die for you and me. So we will never have to be lonely again, thru his grace, because he will be with us always! 

Life changing message!

Titus 3.4-7

"⁴ But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, ⁵ he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life." (ESV)

The good tidings, the gospel. Is it too good to be true? I hope that every person on this earth will hear about this good news, that not comes from this earth but from heaven. Even though many know about Christianity, most people haven't got the real message. It has nothing to do with the work of man, but the work of God! He has fulfilled every promise! Still when it comes to the acceptance of the message, it's the matter of life and death!

There is an eternal life for every one that accept Jesus Christ as lord and saviour. So let's all be more bold about spreading this great tidings out to our friends and neighbours. Our lives is also perhaps the only testimony of Jesus some people will see, so let's all focus to live closer to Jesus, so that we may reflect more and more of his glorious light.  

He is our hope, and he also gives us hope for our future, even after death! Even though we all deserved to die, God wanted all of us to live. Still God is a just God, and our sin needed to be paid for. That's why he sent his only Son to die for us. He paid for our sin, so we can live free of guilt. We are justified by God himself! It doesn't make any sence? Well it's not for us to try to justify ourself, when God has not condemned us! But if we choose to live under our own justice, God will not push his mercy upon us. He will let us live the way we want, but then we have to reap what we sow, and that will lead to our own death!

So let's all choose God's way for us, and live in humility. Let's accept his daily mercy upon our lives, and choose his ways instead of our own way! His ways for our lives, are full of joy unspeakable, and of (true) life!

Be Still my soul, my heart be still, and know you are God.

Psalm 131.2

But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child is my soul within me.

How hard is it to find time to be calm and letting go of all other distractions in life. It's easy to be too occupied by either some sort of activities or of stuff that is total meaningless in the long run. But the truth is that it is good for us to just be quiet, and place our worries or accusations on God. He can listen to everything that we want to say to him. He also wants to do more than listen, he wants to speak to us, from his loving heart towards us.

It's important to find time to be alone with God, so that we can hear his calm gentle voice speak to us. Specially in days with so much going on, we need this more. But there is a fight in us, just as with the child to become proper weaned, it's a process going on in our lives to let things go, and just seek fellowship with God.

God want us to grow spiritually, and not remain a baby the rest of our lives. To do that, we must first of all invite him in to our lives, but we must also seek him on a daily basis, and want to become more like him, and be in his presence.

God bless you!

Be filled with the spirit!

 Isaiah 40:31

"But those who keep waiting for the LORD will renew their strength. Then they'll soar on wings like eagles; they'll run and not grow weary; they'll walk and not grow tired." (ISV)

Can we say: "I charged my mobile phone last week, now I don't need to charge it anymore?" Of course not, and it's the same way regarding our spiritual life. It needs maintenance and care. It doesn't matter what you experienced yesterday, to day is a new dag, and we need to keep our spirit fresh, praying, that is having fellowship with our best friend, Jesus.

If we neglect this, God will not condemn us, but patiently wait for us to again draw near. But our inside will after a while dry up, and we will later drift away from the intim relationship we had.

Let us draw near, while it is day, and seek the Almighty's face. He has then promised to give us strength, to conquer new land, without getting tired.

A life free of bitterness!

James 12.15

"See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled" ( ESV)

Can a day pass us by, without us even showing some sort of positiveness, or even a smile in our face? If negative thinking is all that consumes us, we must be aware so that we do not break the spirit to those that are close to us.

If this is you, or you have this tendency, we must repent from this wrong behaviour. God wants us to live in close fellowship with Him, and how can we live close to God whom we do not see, while we hate our brother whom we see? It's so important to learn to forgive those that hurts us.

How can we start to turn this wrong mentality? By simply start thanking God for everything that He has given us, and for all or little we may have in this world. When we start praising God for who He is, and not look at our self, and keep doing so, negative thoughts will have to flee from us, seeking some other place to rest.