Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Unbroken promises? Unconditional love? Are there such virtues in our present time?

Malachi 3:6 - “I the LORD do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed."

Hebrews 13:8 - "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever"

Ponder over these verses for a moment. In a world where people can turn against each other in a blink of an eye, promises are broken, infidelity and unfaithfulness rampant, love is but conditional, materials gifts fade and wither, don't we yearn for somebody whose love is true and unconditional, whose gifts are ever-lasting and eternal, whose loyalty and faithfulness do not waver, and whose promises are true and kept, and totally selfless?

In the travel of time across life, we have to admit we do appreciate those qualities, if there's any. Is there such a perfect being? One who is selfless, having an unconditional yet sacrificial love, unchanging in his promises and every uttered word, providing us with all our needs as our father, and as comforting and caring as a mother. One who has not and does not pleasure himself in sin, but yearns for all righteous things. Is there such a man? Hasn't all man curse and lie and yielded to anger and lust and all of worldly temptations? Can anyone claim to be totally pure, sinless, righteous, all-loving and sacrificial?

Yes He was, He is, and He will be. He was a human, yet he is a God, and He exists as a Spirit inside all who believes in Him. He sacrificed Himself for all mankind, as the total redemption (atonement) of sins. The love of such magnitude who can comprehend, let alone compare?

Give Him a chance to let Him into your life. (Psalm 34:8- O taste and see that the LORD is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!) He can help you with all your problems or circumstances. (Psalms 46:1 - God is our refuge and stength, a very present help in trouble.)

I pray that this mini sharing of mine will bless your spirit. God is real.

In His love,
Stephen
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Jeremiah 17:9 - The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Matthew 9:11-13 - When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

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