Pray For Those Alone This Holiday Season
We all have different needs in our lives. We may hope for peace and joy and wish for love and comfort. But whatever our needs are, the Lord Jesus Christ is here to meet them and show us the way. Finding True Joy You may, in your own life, be trying to find happiness in career success, in money, even in political ideals and social causes. Or, you may be trying to numb yourself from the pain of life through drinking, through drugs, or casual relationships. However, instead of finding real joy, you may be finding yourself at your own rock bottom.Being with God--this is real joy, and it is within your grasp if you have the courage to reach for His outstretched hand.
Those who Have no one around the holidays fall into one of two emotional conditions. They either become hopeful of getting family and friends into there lives again, or become defeated that they have reached the beginning of the end and maybe even seek revenge. If you look into their eyes, you can either see a light or feel emptiness. Most days, only emptiness. The hopelessness in their eyes was more than just a longing for their family. It was hopelessness of life. There was nothing more to live for, and nothing beyond the walls of there empy home. I wonder if any of them think about God.
Sometimes, life can be as suffocating as being confined to the four walls of a hospital room. We spend all of our lives building "walls". We chase our dreams and we pursue success in the world. But at the end, sometimes the walls we think we build to protect us end up being the same walls that will imprison us to hopelessness. Out of His amazing love, God sent His son, Jesus Christ, to the crucifixion of the cross so that, through His death, He might break down the middle wall of separation between us and God Himself. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. (Jn 3:16) If we put our hope and our faith in His promise of a better world beyond the one we are living right now, we will find a peace in our hearts that neither fear death nor the suffering of this life. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom 8:35, 38-39) Love Human love is a wonderful thing, but sometimes we may still feel that something is missing in our lives. Jesus Christ wants to fill that empty part of our hearts with His perfect love. He is drawing us to Him so that we can truly find fulfillment and joy (Jer 31:3, Hos 11:4, Zeph 3:17). He has promised that if we seek Him with all our hearts, we will surely find Him (Jer 29:13). Truth Despite all the things we acquire, we feel empty and discontent because we are looking for happiness and fulfillment in the wrong things.
We set our priorities and goals based on our egos. We measure success by popular trends in society. We have been led into thinking that the more we have, the happier we will be. But are we? Jesus said, "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" (Mk 16:26). Here, the Lord Jesus reveals the truth about our existence. We can gain everything in this world, but if our soul is not connected with our Creator, we are nothing. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." He also promised His followers, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." The truth about our existence lies with Him, and His words spoken through the Bible tell us that He is the way to a valuable existence. Salvation Comfort Salvation.
Those who Have no one around the holidays fall into one of two emotional conditions. They either become hopeful of getting family and friends into there lives again, or become defeated that they have reached the beginning of the end and maybe even seek revenge. If you look into their eyes, you can either see a light or feel emptiness. Most days, only emptiness. The hopelessness in their eyes was more than just a longing for their family. It was hopelessness of life. There was nothing more to live for, and nothing beyond the walls of there empy home. I wonder if any of them think about God.
Sometimes, life can be as suffocating as being confined to the four walls of a hospital room. We spend all of our lives building "walls". We chase our dreams and we pursue success in the world. But at the end, sometimes the walls we think we build to protect us end up being the same walls that will imprison us to hopelessness. Out of His amazing love, God sent His son, Jesus Christ, to the crucifixion of the cross so that, through His death, He might break down the middle wall of separation between us and God Himself. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. (Jn 3:16) If we put our hope and our faith in His promise of a better world beyond the one we are living right now, we will find a peace in our hearts that neither fear death nor the suffering of this life. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom 8:35, 38-39) Love Human love is a wonderful thing, but sometimes we may still feel that something is missing in our lives. Jesus Christ wants to fill that empty part of our hearts with His perfect love. He is drawing us to Him so that we can truly find fulfillment and joy (Jer 31:3, Hos 11:4, Zeph 3:17). He has promised that if we seek Him with all our hearts, we will surely find Him (Jer 29:13). Truth Despite all the things we acquire, we feel empty and discontent because we are looking for happiness and fulfillment in the wrong things.
We set our priorities and goals based on our egos. We measure success by popular trends in society. We have been led into thinking that the more we have, the happier we will be. But are we? Jesus said, "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" (Mk 16:26). Here, the Lord Jesus reveals the truth about our existence. We can gain everything in this world, but if our soul is not connected with our Creator, we are nothing. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." He also promised His followers, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." The truth about our existence lies with Him, and His words spoken through the Bible tell us that He is the way to a valuable existence. Salvation Comfort Salvation.
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