Jesus sat on the mountain with a crowd before Him. They hung on to His every word. Here was the Messiah, the prophecy fulfilled, the Savior of mankind speaking before them. He had a message for every kind of person there: the poor, the broken, the distraught, the hungry, and many more...
...We are a people that worship and submit. Go to a concert, movie, convention and you will see people who are very good at worshipping...While many Christian celebrities are authentic people, we should never give another person our worship or submission...
Something beautiful and miraculous happens when a person becomes a believer. All at once, they are given hope, a new life, and a future with the Lord. As they are changed on the inside, transformation takes place on the outside.
...God created us with a need for Him, and if we try to go through this life without Him, we will find ourselves searching for something to cling to and will come up empty every time. Brokenness is not easy but it is necessary for the Christian to be complete in Christ...
The sun was beginning to peek above the hills early that Sunday morning as Mary Magdalene and a few others walked to the tomb. There must have been so many things on their minds that day...
...Many fell away when Jesus was persecuted and killed by His adversaries. For some it had become too difficult to follow Him in the end, but not Mary Magdalene. No, she would remain loyal to the One who had changed her life, Her Savior, Her Jesus.
How did they respond when He didn’t come to heal their brother Lazarus right after they sent word? Did they lose faith in the friend they knew was the Healer when He didn’t come right away? Or did they trust that maybe He would heal Lazarus from a distance as He had with others?
However, bad things DO happen to good people. Sometimes God doesn’t answer our prayers the way we expect during times of trouble.
