How beautiful it is to experience a sunrise or sunset. How beautiful it is to see nature with its power and beauty. The sun, which ensures by its warmth that the plants grow. How good the warmth of the sun does us too. Without light we could not see. Without light we could not live either. Genesis 1, 3 - 4a And God said, Let there be light. And there was light. And God saw that the light was good.
But is it only the sun that we are missing? Or is there even more light, which we sometimes lack to know where our way goes on, how our life goes on? Light is important also for our soul, because it also needs a light. God gives us this light. He wants to help us to live a life in security and love. He showed the people of Israel how he also wants to guide us with his light, because he also showed them the way when they were on their way to the promised land.
It is not easy to go through life and to cope with everything we encounter. But Jesus Christ wants to help us to cope better in everything and to live in his love with him. He wants to accompany us, brighten our lives with his light, accompany us wherever we go and go with us through thick and thin. His light shines in our lives and shows us the way.
It was important to Jesus Christ to come into this world for us and to do God's will. He even went to the cross for us, although he didn't have to, he could have said no, but he loves us so much, God loves us so much, that Jesus Christ went this way for us. A love that lasts forever and never fades. A love that transcends our thinking and wants to fill our lives, not with You must, but You can accept my love, I give it to you. Because you do not need to go through your life alone. God wants to go with you to be with you and to stand by your side.
Light in the darkness
What is the most important thing in life for you? What is it that you like to do the most? Why do you do it? To spend time or because it is important to you? Are you looking for something to fill and enrich your life? God is there and wants to fill the teaching in your life that you fill with something else and that makes you look for something in your life. God has put a longing in our hearts for Him, our Creator, to live a life with us. Because we are so important to Him that He wants to share our life with us, to live our life with us. He wants to live your life with you and fill it with his love and everything that belongs to him.
God does not expect you to give up. He wants to experience your life with you and for that we have to give him a place in our life. Change our lives so that he has space in our lives. Align our lives with him and this includes giving things up and filling this with his presence, his love.
It is also not easy to break habits and change your life. But God wants to help you and accompany you, show you that his love is worth more than anything else. It is important to him that your life is good and that you feel loved. You can rely on him. In everything you do, he is there and stands by your side, if you align yourself with his love and give him space in your life.
God does not expect much from you. Only that you also show him your love, that you show him that he is worth to be there in your life, to shape it, to fulfill it. God wants you to have the certainty: "Through His existence in my life I am safe and protected."
Let yourself be filled with his love so that you can pass on this love and thereby love your neighbor as yourself. It is important to God that you also meet the people around you with the love with which he meets you. So that they also recognize his love. Not with, for example, "I can lie to him, it doesn't matter." Because what does it do to you when someone lies to you? The trust disappears and you never know if the other person is honest with me. You have to be honest and open with him, so that he recognizes that he means it honestly and well with me.
Sometimes it is not so easy to keep God's commandments, because it is often easier from the feeling to do the other. But Jesus also took a lot of things on himself for us and he could have also said no to it. But it was important for him to say yes to us, so that we can get to know God and his love for us. He said yes to us and wants us to say yes to him. A yes that is just as faithful as his yes to us.
God's love is the most beautiful and greatest thing we can encounter in our lives. His love never ends, his forgiveness is almost limitless. He created us because he loves us and he created us as we are with all our faults and weaknesses. He accepts us as we are. Through this we can also accept ourselves and change through his love.
God makes the sun rise every day for every person, he gives us what we need, what we need. Especially his love, through which we know ourselves safe and protected.
John 1, 12: But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in his name.
Faith and trust in God
There are different ways to grow in faith and learn to trust God. God has for every person his own way and his time to recognize something and to trust in God more and more. God knows us and therefore he knows exactly what he can trust and expect from us. He does not overwhelm us and has a lot of patience with us.
Here some examples:
Through reading the Bible.
Through prayer.
Through conversations with other Christians.
Through sermons (check if it is in accordance with God's Word).
Through worship.
Through thanksgiving.
Through Christian books (also hiere check whether it is in accordance with God's Word).
Through trust in God.
Forgiveness in Him, Jesus Christ Son of God
Jesus Christ came to us as a man, he lived just like us in problems and hardships. He experienced just like us how people can hate you, persecute you and hurt you, poverty and family life with all the good and bad. Because he was born as a human being.
He experienced people who were grateful for what he did, that he healed them, that he set them free, that he met them with love and forgiveness. Who were grateful because they heard about God who loves them, each one as he is. Who were grateful to hear of a God who does not care to punish, but to meet us in love and forgiveness. To forgive us when we change our lives and align our lives with him and keep his commandments, responding to his love with love for him. He wants us to love Him and give Him glory because He loves us. Because through his love we are healed and liberated. Through his love we can experience his miracles and know a great God behind us, who cares to meet us and be with us.
Why a life in God ?
God's love
1. John 4, 9 + 10 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world,
that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1. Tim. 1, 13b – 15 But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. 14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
God's blessing
Jeremiah 17, 7 + 8 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Numbers 6, 24 – 26 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee,
and give thee peace.
God's mercy
Isaiah 55, 6 + 7 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Ephesians 2, 4 - 5 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved).
God's grace
Ephesians 2, 8 - 10 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9not of works, lest any man should boast. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Romans 3, 20 + 24 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (...)
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus.
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