Want to Know God Personally?
DID YOU KNOW THAT MANY PEOPLE TODAY ARE LOOKING FOR RELATIONSHIPS THAT ARE GENUINE AND REAL…….
Maybe, you are one of those people that feel alone, friends come and go, and trying to find one that is loyal and would stick with you for a lifetime are rare if almost impossible to find. There are many people who are friends that would last as long as they could get something from you or use you to their advantage without giving anything back.
There are other friends who will like you until they see something in your life, that they judge and deem unworthy of their friendship, thus discarding you like an empty container.
Today, I would like to introduce you to a friend of mine that loved me for who I was, not what He wanted me to be, a friend that has stuck with me since I first became acquainted with him. He was a friend that died for me. My friend’s name is Jesus Christ and I would like to tell you his story.
The God of the Bible longed to have a relationship with humanity because he loved them, but their was a issue in everyone’s relationship with Him. God was without blame or fault (sin), while the humans he created like you and me; were flawed, marked with faults (sin) and separated in their relationship with the creator. Rom. 6:23.
This God (Jehovah, LORD, I AM) came to us by becoming one of us. He came to us fulfilling centuries of statements saying He would. When he came to us, he came as one of us, and the Bible recounts how his name was to be Jesus. He was given the name Jesus as an infant, and to others he was known as Christ or Messiah because of all the statements or prophecies he fulfilled. He lived to be the age of thirty and he started his ministry of healing and teaching. While he taught he drew some men who became his dearest friends (disciples) and he became their friend.
He told them that they were responsible to follow him, and if they followed him, they were to tell others why he came. I became one of his friends (disciple) at the age of five when I heard what Jesus (my friend died for me). So, I am telling you his story like all of his friends have done ever since.
Let me tell you about my friend. You see my friend being God was without sin, but in order to restore my relationship with my creator, he died for my sin. He died for your sin, wanting to be your friend too. He died after much torture and physical pain. The bible says:
Rom.5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. He died so that we would not experience the justice of God’s wrath upon us due to our faults (sin). He became our sin on a cross (a Roman way of killing people). The bible says:
2Cor. 5:21For He made Him who knew no sin to besin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
He took our sin from us when we believe that He died for us. I believe that he died for me and I became his friend, because he became my friend.
1John 4:19We love Him because He first loved us.
John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.14You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.15No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
Jesus wants to be your friend too! A friend that is closer than a brother! He will be a friend that will never leave you nor forsake you. He is a friend that will stay with you for a life time. All God asks of us is that we believe that he died for us, so that all of those things that keep us far from God will be removed, and that we can have eternal peace with God through the death of our friend.
Is. 53:5But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He wasbruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
Eph 2:13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Eph. 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, 16and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. 17And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. 18For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
Will you receive your friend’s death for you? Trust him now! If you do not know how, say something like this to the LORD, “ Dear Jesus, I believe that you died for me and gave me peace with God. Thank you for dying for my faults and removing the separation with God, so that I could have peace with God. Thank you for being my friend, be my friend forever, and I will seek to always be your friend (disciple), Amen.”