You know you can
believe God loves you because He proved His love by sending His Son, Jesus!
Jesus proved His love
for God AND for you by leaving Heaven, coming to earth, living an obedient
life, dying for your sins and then arising from the dead to conquer death.
John 3:16 reveals God’s Perfect Plan For Helping Imperfect People Get Into A Perfect
Place For Eternity!
It is only because of this perfect plan for imperfect people that any of us have hope of spending eternity with Him!
God loves us!
Jesus proved it by coming to be our Savior!
So
what is your part in this perfect plan for imperfect people?
BELIEVE!
What does it mean to truly believe?
BE PERFECT IN YOUR DESIRE
“You shall have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3
“Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your
God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’” This
is the first and greatest commandment.” Matthew 22:37-38
If an imperfect
person like you, wants to get to God’s perfect place for eternity, you must
desire God more than you desire anything else!
You must realize that
life is supposed to be about Him NOT about you!
God will cannot be
your God if you desire anything more than you desire Him. Whatever you desire
more than God – that is your god!
You must desire God
more than you desire that next cigarette or that next drink or the next high. You
must desire Him more than money, more than possessions, more than power, or
popularity or position. You must desire God more than any other relationship.
If you say you
believe in God but you don’t desire Him more than anything – you don’t believe.
That is what it means
to believe! It means to choose God as your chief desire EVERY TIME!
Does that describe
you? Do you desire Him more than anything?
If you don’t desire
Him more than anything else, you don’t believe like He wants you to believe.
That’s what it takes
for imperfect people to get into His perfect place!
BE PERFECT IN YOUR DEVOTION
“No one can serve two masters. Either you
will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” Matthew 6:24
Being devoted to God
means you give yourself, your life to obeying Him, obeying His Word (The Bible)
and pleasing Him above your own pleasure.
Perfect devotion
means every time you your desires come into conflict with His desires you
choose His desires.
That is what Jesus
did! He was devoted to God, His Father, and God wanted to redeem the world from
sin. For that to happen, Jesus would have to leave Heaven, come to earth and
humble Himself into a human being. Then, as a human being He devoted Himself to
obeying God.
Do you think He
WANTED to be beaten and spat upon? Do you think He REALLY wanted to suffer on a
cross? He endured those things because He was devoted to God.
A believer must
devote himself to obeying God and doing God’s will.
That is how imperfect
people are able to get to a perfect place for eternity!
Does that describe
how you believe?
BE PERFECT IN YOUR DECISIONS
This is where belief
really becomes practical as well as powerful.
For imperfect people
to get to a perfect place forever you must make every decision based upon His
desires and His will.
Believing in God
means you make all your decisions according to what pleases God.
Jesus said, “Seek
first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be added to
you.” Matthew 6:33
Joshua said, “As
for me and my house we will serve the Lord.”
Decisions result in
actions and attitudes and have consequences in your life and family
Believers
ask before making decisions ask, “What does the Bible say?” Or, “What would
Jesus do in this situation?”
Does
that describe your faith? Is that how you express your belief?
Christmas demonstrates that a Perfect God has
a perfect plan for imperfect people to get into a perfect place for eternity!
But it requires imperfect people to believe and believing means – "Be Perfect In Your
Desires, Be Perfect In Your Devotion and Be Perfect In Your Decisions".
Jesus came!
You MUST believe!
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