Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life!

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Tonight, Bryan and I went to his work Christmas party.   It was the first time I left Katherine for more then a couple hours.  Katherine turns 4 months old on the 23rd of December and still nurses quite frequently, so I wasn’t quite sure how she would do if we left her with a babysitter.  I made sure she had a bottle, but she still hasn’t gotten the hang of using a bottle as opposed to feeding with Mommy.   We were gone for nearly 3 hours and decided to call back to the sitters (ie, my younger sisters) to see how she was doing- which was not well!  She wouldn’t take her bottle and was crying every few minutes.   We left the party and when we pulled up in front of the house where my dear baby girl was, my sister was in the window, holding Katherine in her arms and you could see that Katherine was crying.  I walked into the house and took my baby in my arms and  immediately she stopped crying!  It was as if she had an off and on switch- Katherine’s reaction was so immediate.   It just made me feel so special and blessed.

As I fed her, I got to thinking that Katherine’s longing for me, her mother,  is comparable to how we should long for Christ!  We aren’t going to be satisfied until we have Him and only Him.  Nothing and no one else will do.

“But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained.

Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.”  Phil. 3:7-21

1In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 3For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.   2 Timothy 4:1-5

5Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, 10and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness. 2 Thessalonians 2:5-12

My heart is really aching for our church nowadays, it seems as if Jesus Christ and what He did for us on the cross is being pushed to the side as if it has no importance.   A different gospel is being preached, and souls are being lost.

In truth, Jesus Christ’s sole purpose in coming to earth was to die on the cross for our sins so we could have a way to heaven, so we could have eternal life with Him!      This earthly life is just a blip in time, eternity is what matters.   The only way that we can get to heaven is through Jesus Christ.  Again, I reiterate, there is no other way.   Jesus Himself said, “I am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes to Father but by me!”  He also said to Nicodemus in John 3:3 “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.^a”  (Read the whole chapter for a great reminder of why Jesus came to earth).

There is no way around it, if people don’t come to know Christ Jesus as their Lord and Savior, they are going to die and go to hell for eternity.

This world is hopeless, dying and falling apart, the only hope for it is Jesus Christ.   As believers, we must urgently spread this message at all costs.

I decided to start a blog, and initially I started one with Blogspot.com, but I saw wordpress.com and thought it was much more streamlined then blogspot.com.  So, I switched over.   We’ll see if I’ll be posting often with my busy “mom” schedule.

I love the beginning of a new day!  Lamentations 3:22-23 says, “Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed,  for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”

Every day is a fresh start with my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.