Why Jesus?

Do you know why you are here? Do you understand that you were uniquely designed by God and designed for something great? Are you operating in the gifts that the Lord has placed inside of you? Are you impacting the world and glorifying God with your talents? Are people being drawn to Christ because you are lifting Him up?

What has your life experience been thus far? – Significant? Fulfilling? Focused? Rich? Rewarding? Unintentional? Haphazard? Scattered? Unsatisfying?

When your time here on earth is over, who will remember you? Why will they remember you?

Have you considered these questions?

If you are a Christ-follower, let me encourage you that you are dearly loved and have been designed by our Creator to do great things…to make an impact on this world…to leave your mark here…to change lives. As the children of God, we should be lifting the Lord up so that He may draw mankind to Himself! We have been given all that we need to do exactly that. Go for it! Whatever He has called you to do – DO IT!!!

2 Peter 1:3&4 - His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

If you are not a Christ-follower, let me encourage you that you are dearly loved and have been designed by our Creator to do great things…to make an impact on this world…to leave your mark here…to change lives. I encourage you, as a person lovingly designed by God, to investigate the claims of God found in the Bible so that you may learn about Him, learn about the Savior Jesus Christ, and embrace the truth that the God of the universe loves you, has great plans for you, and He desires for you (at the end of your life here on earth) to live eternally in heaven with Him. This is why Jesus came to the earth: to make a way for us to have an abundant life both here on earth and in the life to come.

John 3:16&17 - God loved the world this way: He gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him will not die but will have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but to save the world.

John 10:10 - The thief [satan] comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I [Jesus] came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).

Romans 10:9-11 - If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”

If you have questions, post them in this thread, email me, inbox me. Contact me any way you desire, and I’d be delighted to talk with you. J

A few final words for all of us:

These things that I once considered valuable, I now consider worthless for Christ. It’s far more than that! I consider everything else worthless because I’m much better off knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. It’s because of him that I think of everything as worthless. I threw it all away in order to gain Christ and to have a relationship with him. This means that I didn’t receive God’s approval by obeying his laws. The opposite is true! I have God’s approval through faith in Christ. This is the approval that comes from God and is based on faith that knows Christ. Faith knows the power that his coming back to life gives and what it means to share his suffering. In this way I’m becoming like him in his death, with the confidence that I’ll come back to life from the dead…Brothers and sisters, imitate me, and pay attention to those who live by the example we have given you. I have often told you, and now tell you with tears in my eyes, that many live as the enemies of the cross of Christ. In the end they will be destroyed. Their own emotions are their god, and they take pride in the shameful things they do. Their minds are set on worldly things. We, however, are citizens of heaven. We look forward to the Lord Jesus Christ coming from heaven as our Savior.  Through his power to bring everything under his authority, he will change our humble bodies and make them like his glorified body. (Philippians 3:7-11, 17-21)

 

With love.