Wednesday, August 12, 2015

He gives hope to the hopeless

So you think you're immune from self-centeredness? Do you think you are safe from going your own way? Do you think that you'd never turn away from your Savior?

Peter thought he would never deny Jesus- he was wrong, very, very wrong.

Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

ALL of us have gone astray!  Sheep wander it's in their nature. Sheep need a shepherd. Sheep need a sheepdog. Sheep left to their own devices will definitely go astray.

Mat 18:12  How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
Mat 18:13  And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
Mat 18:14  Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

Rom 3:10  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Rom 3:11  There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Rom 3:12  They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Rom 3:13  Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Rom 3:14  Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Rom 3:15  Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Rom 3:16  Destruction and misery are in their ways:
Rom 3:17  And the way of peace have they not known:
Rom 3:18  There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Rom 3:19  Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

We NEED a Shepherd, and CHRIST is that Shepherd.

Christ is the Shepherd who died to save His sheep.  Our  lives meant and mean so much to Him!  Can we even begin to comprehend this? Can we?!

We've been given HOPE.
We don't have to live HOPELESS!
So many choose hopelessness, so many cling to this world, to THIS life refusing to believe in the HOPE of a better world, a better life.

Over and over our God has shown us in His word through history, that HE lives, HE loves!

Our CREATOR did not have to die for us, but He did! He ransomed us. He paid the price for us.  He could have shoved us aside, He could have destroyed us and created something entirely different, but He didn't because we were worth that much to Him.  We have PART of Him that can connect to a part of US.  Made in HIS IMAGE.

Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all

We need our SHEPHERD!

We are guilty, He is innocent!

We deserved death eternal, He died that death so we could live.

Daily we die.

Rom 8:36  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Daily we must die to self and live for HIM. We are sheep for the slaughter, but sheep who have a Shepherd. Sheep who have been given the promise of everlasting life in Christ our Savior. Sheep whose Shepherd sacrifice Himself for us, to give us hope in ETERNAL LIFE.  This pasture we are living in is corrupt and there are wolves every which way we turn. The wolves may kill us in this life but the wolves can never take eternal life from us. The wolves cannot take our HOPE from us.  Our Shepherd HAS SAVED US ALREADY and the wolves cannot take HOPE from us, they cannot take our Eternal Life not ever, we are saved by GRACE…

Eph_2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God

1Jn_5:13  These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

By the grace of GOD! We believe on His name, Jesus Christ our Savior now and forever!

AMEN.

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