There are so many lies in this life. But why does it seem that more and more lies start to become the worlds truth? We get sucked in to all of these things that appear to be harmless and right, when we are being deceived. I feel like the more that I read the Bible, the more I see how things are supposed to be. Some days I wonder and ask myself, is this how humans were created to be? Was this the plan that was laid out for us in the beginning of time when God created everything? I recently have been reading through Genesis as a part of a "read through the entire Bible sort of thing" and I see that even in the beginning we couldn't get it right and seem to always be falling out of the way we were meant to be. Even Noah, a man that God chose to save from the flood wasn't perfect. Noah is described in Genesis 6:9
"Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God"
He went through a lot of work because God asked him to, and in the end of his life he is in his tent drunk and naked. Even after a fresh new start we couldn't get it right as humans.
It makes me sad to see how lies about Jesus and Christians are slowly considered truth in the world. He wasn't just another man in history who did some amazing healing. He was fully God and fully man. Someone that would finally get it right! He was perfect and died for everyone. He wasn't a magician or a crazy person or someone just trying to make their name famous. If we forget about everything else we think we know about Jesus and just look to the Bible and what it says, we can finally see what its all really about.
Christianity isn't just going to Church on Sunday. It's not about being perfect or thinking that you are somehow better than everyone else in the world. Being a Christian is knowing that we are imperfect and that Jesus is perfect and died so that we could be saved. When we open up our lives to Jesus we see the lies in this world. The lies say its alright to disobey the one and only God that created everything.
I know that people like to put up walls and pretend like they don't need Jesus because they have it all under control. Everything may look fine on the surface but underneath there is a gaping hole in their heart that is crying out for someone to save them. Nothing can fill that gap but Jesus. Humans tend to live in the moment and think everything is perfect...until that moment ends. Then its back to feeling like there is something they are missing.
There are also times where people acknowledge that there is a higher power but they don't fully know what or who it is. God created everything. Planets, trees, Squids, Butterflies, Mountains and even the air you are breathing right now. Most importantly he created you. Doesn't that make you want to get to know him a little better?
I make mistakes a lot. Sometimes it feels like no matter what I do I will never beat the sin in my life and it can get very depressing. I've tried all sorts of things, books, videos, music, listening to sermons...Anything to get me excited to live for Jesus and finally get it right. But I still sin...In the past little while I feel like God has been teaching me something very important.
I've been doing all of these things in a hope that I would be able to beat the sin and finally win. But its not about me, I have been so focused on myself that I forgot that Jesus already did win. It doesn't matter if I'm not perfect because Jesus is. Now instead of trying to fight sin for myself I stop and remember....For his glory. It's about Jesus.
I have noticed in a few places in the Bible it says things like, "he walked with God". If someone wrote a book about you and your life would it say: he(or she) walked with God? Each day I hope to be a "God's Man". Someone who lives for God and the ways that he created me to be. I know that I have sinned and will sin again. All I can do is love Jesus the perfect one and forget about how imperfect I am.
Life is all about a relationship with Jesus Christ. A Savior who wants more than anything for you to come to him broken so that he can build you up and clean what has been abused. He wants to "restore you to factory default" so to speak. He wants to bring you back to how you were originally designed and get rid of any bugs that may be slowing you down. So if you only know about Jesus from how this world tends to portray him I encourage you to discard all of those thoughts and open up the book of Matthew and start to get to know the Truth about Jesus.
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