Was there ever a point in time when nothing existed? Can something come from nothing? Can life come from non-life?
There had to have been something, because zero plus zero equals zero, and this something had to have been life for non-life can’t create life. Something can’t make something that’s better than itself. This life is eternal because it has always been existing; independently existing and the cause of everything. This eternal life is Jesus Christ. He is the creator, the way, the truth, and the life, no man comes to the Father but by Him. Jesus says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:29) He has a purpose for your life and desires you to love and follow him. He desires to have a relationship with you. He wants to be your life. He wants to be your best friend. He is your savior.
Don’t let Satan pull you into sin. He wants you to be far from God. Don’t let him get the victory. Don’t let him bring you down. Don’t let him steal your joy. Don’t let him bring division and strife. Think on things above; what is pure and holy, what is good, what is just. Think about the cross. Be strong in the Lord and put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to withstand the devils arrows. We can overcome with the help of Jesus Christ and him only.
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” -Ephesians 6:10-11
My mother and I were at the hospital to see my grandma and my mom said someday I could be taking care of her (if she lives that long) the same way she is caring for her mother. Then I said, “Maybe we’ll all die together, that would be nice.”
Many professing Christians seek to save their life and defend themselves when someone tries to kill them. Many are afraid to die, but if we follow Jesus then we have hope that we will be risen with him eternally! If we die, that only brings us closer to him. He is our home. Our eternal resting place. He is our final destination. No other place I’d rather be.
If you see someone fall into the fire, do you stand back and let them burn, or do you rush to pull them out? The loving thing would be to pull them out! How much more so if you see someone in sin, knowing that their sin, if unrepented of, will lead them to eternal damnation? True love is pulling them out of the fire, not standing back and watching them burn!
Love is sacrifice. Love is never failing. Love vanishes at the point it refuses to give of itself. Love is about giving, not getting. Though our love may not be reciprocated, we must continue to love. Even though you may be hated for telling people they are in sin, you must continue to warn them. Jesus was hated by the world; why would we expect less?
“…though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.” (2Cor 12:15)
“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.” -John 15:18
“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faiththat can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,it keeps no record of wrongs.6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues,they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhoodbehind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;then we shall see face to face.Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” -1 Corinthians 13
There is no other king who is like our God. All earthly kings will die one day and will be judged, but our King IS the judge! He has everlasting, never ending, sovereign power! He is King of kings and there is none like him.
“For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward” -Deuteronomy 10:17
