For this post, I would love to start off by describing a scenario for you. Imagine that you are a famous musician, dancer, actor, or what ever you would like to be. You are playing a sold out arena for millions of your fans. During the show, you make a mistake, and it is very clear that you have messed up. Someone in the audience saw your mistake, and for that you deserve to die. you take a bullet in the chest, and you collapse on the ground. Your most devoted fan jumps on stage, and they try to save your life. The only way for you to survive is for your fan to die for you. So they die and you can now live. You didn't know this fan before hand, so wouldn't it be natural to find out who they are, and who their family were, and how many friends they had. Wouldn't you try to figure out as much as possible about this fan who just saved your life?
Now, this will probably never happen. But this scenario reflects your relationship with God. You are famous in God's eyes. If you have heard the song "He Knows My Name" by Francesca Battistelli, then you have heard how much God adores you, and how you don't need to be famous on Earth, because you already have your number one fan. Another thing is that no matter how much you mess up, God is still going to love you. Romans 5:8 says, "But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." We totally mess up every day, but God still died for us. If an artists makes too many mistakes, than they start to lose their fans. But God isn't going anywhere. His love is constant yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Hebrews 13:8 says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and tomorrow." He still loves you no matter how much you mess up.
Now the questions that I asked earlier need to be answered. most of us would want to learn as much as possible about the fan that sacrificed their life for yours. The thing is that when it comes to our faith, we don't tend to want to find out as much as we can. Sure we can just Facebook the family of the fan to see what they were like. But God gave us his word, the Bible, to learn all we need to know about him. He died on a cross for our sins, so shouldn't we at least read his word. Shouldn't we give him the respect to find out about him, after he willingly died for us. I know that it may not always be exciting, but the more you learn, the more you act like Jesus.
Dear Heavenly Father,
I know that it is important to read your word Lord. I just find it hard to find time, or even find interest sometimes to read and learn. Please give me a heart that yearns for your word, because you did die for me and my sins and you are always going to be a fan of me, through the good and the bad. Thank you for being so constant in my life when my life is changing moment for moment. Amen.
Now, this will probably never happen. But this scenario reflects your relationship with God. You are famous in God's eyes. If you have heard the song "He Knows My Name" by Francesca Battistelli, then you have heard how much God adores you, and how you don't need to be famous on Earth, because you already have your number one fan. Another thing is that no matter how much you mess up, God is still going to love you. Romans 5:8 says, "But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." We totally mess up every day, but God still died for us. If an artists makes too many mistakes, than they start to lose their fans. But God isn't going anywhere. His love is constant yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Hebrews 13:8 says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and tomorrow." He still loves you no matter how much you mess up.
Now the questions that I asked earlier need to be answered. most of us would want to learn as much as possible about the fan that sacrificed their life for yours. The thing is that when it comes to our faith, we don't tend to want to find out as much as we can. Sure we can just Facebook the family of the fan to see what they were like. But God gave us his word, the Bible, to learn all we need to know about him. He died on a cross for our sins, so shouldn't we at least read his word. Shouldn't we give him the respect to find out about him, after he willingly died for us. I know that it may not always be exciting, but the more you learn, the more you act like Jesus.
Dear Heavenly Father,
I know that it is important to read your word Lord. I just find it hard to find time, or even find interest sometimes to read and learn. Please give me a heart that yearns for your word, because you did die for me and my sins and you are always going to be a fan of me, through the good and the bad. Thank you for being so constant in my life when my life is changing moment for moment. Amen.
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