LIVE.

we spend our lives wanting to be different. wanting to be like someone else. wanting something more. if i only had what she had my life would be better. if i only reacted to situations like she did or he did i would be different. sometimes we don't even know that we are doing it. it just ends up being a part of what we do. and in all those moments which end up making most of our life, we miss the fact that we are meant to be who we were created to be. nothing more, not like someone else. the people that we want to be like or try so desperately to please end up letting us down and then we finally realize that they are just like us. everyone in all creation, just like me in one specific way. i am a sinner. and so are you. and so is the person that you look up to. what is so wrong about looking at someone else and wishing to be in the that specific moment that they are in, or to just have the same outlook on life is wrong, it's a sin. the only person that we/i should be looking to is Jesus Christ. the one who lived a perfect life, the life that i couldn't live! hey, that's great news! He came to earth, HE WAS MORE THAN JUST A MAN, HE WAS FULLY GOD IN THE FLESH. because he lived a perfectly sinless life, he was able to die on the cross and take ALL the punishment for MY SIN. he was took that sin of me idolizing others. the sin of me looking at someone the wrong way. the sin of me making over more of myself than i should. i could go on and on. Man, i'm pretty sinful and that's only a few days/hours of sins. why would God love me? why would He care if I perish in Hell? because he LOVES ME. He KNOWS that i am a SINNER and uncapable of loving him with my life the way that I SHOULD. that's why HE sent his ONE AND ONLY SON, JESUS CHRIST to the earth, so that we could be MADE RIGHT with Him, GOD. made right with God? really? but you don't know what i have done. doesn't matter. The Bible says that we have ALL SINNED AND FALLEN SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD. No sin is greater than another. Me wanting to be like someone else is just the same as the biggest "sin" you can think of. What's so neat about God is that he KNEW i was going to SIN and he loved me, he still came to DIE FOR ME AND FOR YOU, so that we could LIVE! TRULY LIVE! LIVE IN FREEDOM FROM SIN! ALL BECAUSE OF JESUS'S LIFE (perfect sinless life) DEATH (took ALL MY SIN) on the cross, and RESRRECTION (HE IS THE VICTORY OVER DEATH AND SIN). All because of this, I can have life in Him. I can know that Christ is my Savior. Do you? Do you know that you are a sinner? Do you know that your very sin put God's one and only sin to death on the cross? I can't help but think, since Jesus was fully human and fully God, he did agonize over this. for hours. think about it not only was he about to die. but he was about to be crucified, have a CRIMINALS death, on the cross for YOU. and not only that, think about how you feel when you sin. how awful it feels to know you've done something wrong (conviction). Jesus felt this for EVERYONE. EVERYONE. Does this move you? Christ died for you. and SALVATION alone belongs to OUR GOD. He can save you and free you from your sin. He wants to do this for you, because HE LOVES YOU so much. God can't look on sin, so that's what Jesus is for. Jesus broke the wall that was between you and God. Now, we can freely come to Him. He wants you to come near to him. James 4:8 says, "come near to God and he will come near to you." Come to Christ just as you are. Recognize that you are indeed sinful. we were born into sin. BUT with Christ, we can be free from SIN and experience God's grace (his favor, his love, things we don't deserve). Accept this free gift of Salvation, but know that it came with your Saviors death on a cross. Jesus says that He is the Way the Truth and the Life and that no one comes to the Father EXCEPT through Him. We can't earn salvation, I can't do enough good things to "get right" with God. If I tried to do that, then Christ's life, death, and resurrection wasn't enough. and it IS. Salvation is a free gift. It can be yours today. Praise God, He CHOSE me to be his Child. Come to him. Tell him what you've done against Him. Accept Jesus Christ as the only way of Salvation. He will be your SAVIOR. and LIVE.