hAppY nEw yEaR

Happy New Year everyone!! Passion is a day away...I will be back on Thursday. Have a great new year.........

Love God

Do we really love God? The way He desires. I was listening to John Piper and he is awesome at getting to the bare bones of it all. To love God is to love Him above all else. To love the Word and time with Him more than anything else in your life, your family, your stuff, your friends. He is what we need to cling to for everything. When we hear John 3:16 it says "16"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life." That word believe does not mean to just believe Jesus is real...it means to cling to Him with all that you are. Everyday, day in and day out. Not based on our feelings, not according to the circumstances He has put in your life, but we are to love Him as an act of our will. We need to choose Him. It is funny because I hear so many people regret their mistakes, which there is grace, but we have choices. We can say yes or we can say no...by the power of Christ (Romans 6). If you have Jesus living inside of you you can beg Him to help you say no. You can choose Him. Yes we will fail, no we will not be perfect. But we can practice loving God. Really learning to love Him first. Beg Him for help to do this. This is something we can only do in His power. I only belong to Jesus by faith in Him...not by the things I do, but as I get to know Him more and more, I want to love Him first, more than anything else in my life. Help me Jesus to love the Father with my life.....