'No Greater Love'
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The Great Escape
I read an article about a tractor-trailer that crashed into a guardrail and spilled 165 000 eggs onto a North Virginia Highway. A few other drivers had noticed the mess and said it looked like one giant omelet. The spilled eggs made their way into a drainage ditch, creating a huge river of yellow yolk. To make matters worse, the truck driver fled the scene before police arrived. The owner of the trailer company was quoted as saying, “We don’t know where he’s at—we don’t know what the deal is.”
It’s amazing how our world—which has more options and opportunities than ever before, also has more people wanting to escape from life itself. People are either trying to get a life they can’t have or escape from a life they don’t want. Drugs has become the biggest escape route. They’re everywhere. Streets drugs—prescription drugs. It seems people can’t face life without them. Then there’s the outlet of entertainment. At one time, entertainment took only a few hours of our time—but now it’s a way of life. Recently a student was quoted as saying, that “The birth of the virtual world has led to the death of the real self—the death of our real lives.”
We’re living in a culture that's designed to keep us from what’s true, from what’s real and from what will never fail. That’s why Jesus said, “I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life.”
Jesus was saying that you can’t really face life—life with all of its challenges and all of its demands—without me. In this culture of death and false promises, Jesus wants to give you real life. And that will only begin when you're willing to take a step of faith.
People often ask—where is God? Why won’t he prove himself to me? The God of this universe is not someone that we could prove in a lab or hold in a test tube. Because God is not limited by space or time. God demands from us one thing and that is—faith. Faith is the only thing that proves we genuinely want to know him. A life of faith is the only thing that proves we truly mean business with God.
And the challenge of faith gets even more real, because Jesus will not accept just part of our life. If Jesus were just another way out—like entertainment or drugs, he would ask for only part of you. But he’s not just a way out—he is the way out.. And that’s why he demands all of you.
When Christ has all of us—everything falls into his great plan for us. But when he doesn’t have all of us—everything stays the same and often gets worse.
Jesus said, anyone who tries to find life without me—will lose it.
The Bible tells us, that a person’s life is not their own. This means, that one day you will have to give an answer to God for all of the choices that you’ve ever made—everyone of them. And to many people, God will say, 'that’s not why I gave you life—that’s not why I gave you—your body'.
Are you willing to trust Christ with your life? Are you willing to put all of your doubts and your fears aside and say, ‘Jesus, I want to experience your promise for me. I want you to give me a future.’ Where do you start? It begins by taking a step of faith and trusting all of your life to Jesus—who is the Son of God. Who died for our sins and rose again.
It begins, when we turn from our own selfish way of sinful living and walk in the new way of life that God has designed for us. And if you trust him—he will give you the power to live a life that is free and full of promise.
The one prayer that God has never turned down, the one prayer that always reaches heaven—is this, 'God be merciful to me—a sinner.'
Reach out to Jesus and you’ll find that He’s reaching out to you.
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