Why Bother To Worship Jesus Christ

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him." - Matthew 2:1 - 2:2 (NKJV)

After Jesus was born, wise men from the East came to look for Him to worship Him. Thinking that He should be at the king's palace, they went to approach king Herod enquiring about the whereabout of the King of the Jews. They eventually found their way to where Jesus was at and worship Him with gold, frankincense, and myrrh. They probably knew the young child was no ordinary child and that could be the reason why they worshipped Him. After been divinely warned by an angel of not returning to Jerusalem, they departed from Bethlehem to their own country.

Of course what came after was a story about a king ordering the killing of male child around the age of two and below. But why the massacre of the young boys? Because the King of kings, the Lord of lords was born as a male child! And king Herod was afraid as he thought this little boy will one day take over the throne. Little did he know that this little Child is not coming to de-throne him but has come to save all the earth's people from their sin.

This little Child is definitely no ordinary child. He is the Son of God! He has come to give himself up as the sacrifical lamb at the cross so that people who believe He is Saviour and Lord can have right standing with God! For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

What's the big deal about the sacrifice of Jesus at the cross? 

That one completely complete work at the cross by Jesus Christ has made all those who believe in Him to have right standing with God. The divine exchange of His righteousness for our sin has taken place at the cross! And for those who believe in Jesus and His finished work at the cross can go to the throne of grace in times of need to cry Abba Father and the loving Heavenly Father will answer their every cry to Him!

And that's why we worship Christ Jesus! We worship Jesus for He is good! We worship Jesus for taking our place at the cross and for bearing all the wrath of God upon His own body! We worship Him for bearing all our diseases for by His stripe, we are healed! We worship Jesus because of His shed blood that keeps on cleansing us of all our sins. We give our praises to Him for He alone deserves all our praises and adoration.

We worship Jesus for all the good that He has done in our lives and for all the good that He is doing and continue to do in our lives. We thank Jesus for keeping us protected from all evil formed. We worship him for keeping us safe from known or unknown viruses! We thank Jesus for the shalom peace which He has bequeathed to us.

Needlessly to say there is no way we can completely describe what Jesus has accomplished for us. For the little we know about Jesus, lets just give Him our adoration and praise! 

I am the beloved of the Lord

Jesus loves me this I know. For the bible tells me so. That's part of a Christian song. I will sing this song to me son regularly. There is another part of the song that says Jesus is strong.

For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son to die for the world that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. The moment a sinner accepts Jesus Christ as His savior and Lord, that sinner is transformed from a state of sin to a state of right standing with God. He/she is made the righteousness of God in Christ. All his/her sins are forgiven forever!

God cannot punish a Christian for his/her sins for the punishment has been vetted on Jesus Christ and it will be an injustice for God to punish Christians for their sins. That is not to say Christians should live a lifestyle of sin. How shall it be where Christians are dead to sin and alive to righteousness! How can it be where Christians see the grace and loveliness of Lord Jesus Christ. When we fall in love with Christ Jesus, we shall fall out of love with sin. For sin shall not have dominion over us for we are not under law but under grace!

It is fine to know that Christians are saved from eternal damnation. More importantly, be conscious that we are the beloved of the Lord. Beloved means to be deeply loved, very close to the heart, according to one dictionary. That means we are deeply loved by Father God and we are very closed to His heart. For as Christ is, so are we in this world. The heart of Father God is full of Jesus and we are in Him. So we are His darlings. He only has good thoughts toward us.

As the beloved of the Lord, we get to enjoy whatever Jesus is! Jesus is full of love. We can to enjoy His love and because He first loves us, we can love one and another. Out of the abundance of grace we can extend favor to another. Jesus is wisdom personified. We have the mind of Christ and His wisdom shall manifest greatly in our lives. Jesus is full of shalom life! This shalom life flows mightily in our lives. Jesus is shalom. The bible says Jesus has bequeathed His shalom to us. We have the peace which surpasses all understandings of the world.

As the beloved of the Lord, we are joint heir with Christ! Whatever He has, we have. Behold the Lord Christ Jesus and see our lives been transformed by Lord Christ Jesus. We see Jesus in the word. We see His loveliness and abundance of grace through His word. We are been transformed effortlessly by beholding Jesus.

All our needs are supplied. There shall be no lack in our lives for Christ has given His life, His very person for our every need. There IS fresh manna for today. Take no thought for tomorrow. Live today.There is sufficient grace for today. Be constantly mindful of the truth we are the beloveds of the Lord. Hallelujah!

Bask In His Love

The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.

Why is that when the Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want? The reason: the
Lord loves me. He doesn't just loves but so loves me that He wants to
provide for everything that I want or need with more than enough. He wants
to make sure all things will turn out for my good. He just wants me to
receive all that He is in my life.

How then do I receive? I can receive because I'm the righteous of God in
Christ Jesus! I receive by enjoying His love for me. I receive by being
restful in the Holy Spirit. I receive by just basking in His abundance
supplies. For the Lord shall supply all my needs according to the riches
and glory in Christ Jesus.

When God sent His only begotten Son to the cross, He had only one thing in
mind: to reconcile with mankind for He so loved them. The greatest
demonstration of God's love is shown at the cross. Jesus was crucified so
the we can divinely take His position of righteous while He took our state
of sin. Oh, what love is this! That God will send His only begotten Son to
die for sinful men so that through that one complete sacrifice, man will be
made righteous with God when he accepts the gift of salvation.

There is no way man can be made right with God through his sacrifice. Only
Jesus' sacrifice at the cross qualifies us to be righteous! Enjoy Abba
Father's abundance love and blessings in our lives. Hallelujah!

God Is Good

God is good, all the time. And all the time, God is good. God is good towards His children and His people.

Why is God good? Because He is God. He is love. He is caring. He is faithful. He is thoughtful. He is gracious. He is compassionate. He is generous. He is kind. He is all that we ever want to be and much more!

For God so loved the world that He sent His only Son to die for the world that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but has shalom life. This is the goodness of God to reconcile the world to Him. For since the fall of Adam, man has sinned against God and condemned to eternal suffering. Man has distanced himself from God.

God wants man to come to Him. He wants to do everything for man. He is Abba Father who sees to our every need. When we are weak, He is our strength. When we are sick, He is our healing. When we are poor, He is our providence. He is always looking out for our interest.

God will always come through in our time of need. He may seem to be late but He is always on time! When the children of Israel were faced with the Red Sea and the Egyptian army behind them, God caused the Red Sea to part for His people to cross safely but to later flood over the Egyptian army. The three friends of Daniel were rescued from the fiery furnace by the fourth Man and their clothes were not burnt.

There were many stories of salvation in the bible. But the most touching story of salvation will be the one that happen to us. Trust God to deliver us, for He is good. Hallelujah!

God counts the number of hair on your head II

I was changing the diaper for my little son, Johanan. As I was wiping his buttock, he continued to pass motion right into my hand. Even though my hand was dirty, I didn't have any sense of anger towards him as he is my precious son. I continued to wipe his buttock clean and put some baby powder on him and he was restful after that.

Even with my human love for my son, I didn't bother to count the number of hair on his head. Mind you, he has a full set of hair on his head. His hair is longer than his daddy's. :-) Yet the bible says God counts the number of hair on our heads. That is the level of attention He will pay to. He will make sure every details in our lives are well taken of! Hallelujah!

This is the love of Abba Daddy. He knows our every need long before we have need of. He is always working behind the scene to make sure that our every need is met. For He is Almighty God. He unending love towards His children is unfathomable. He even sacrificed His only begotten Son to die for us some two thousand years ago to divinely exchange His position beside Abba Father for our position of sin.

He always has our interest at heart. If only we would to trust Him completely and rely on His perfect love completely as well. He will never put those who trust in Him to shame. He will not allow the righteous to famish. He will provide for all our needs according to the riches and glory in Christ Jesus. Trust in His perfect love. He will attend to every minute need that we have. Hallelujah!

Blessings out of your wrong doings

When we do right, we usually have no issue believing God for blessings. However, we find it hard to believe God for His blessings when we do something wrong. This is not the God of the bible. Abba Father loves us regardless of our actions. Don't get me wrong here that we should just go about doing wrong things and not behaving the way we should. When we believe right, we will live right.

God's love for us is based on Jesus' finished work at the cross. His work is so completely complete that He had taken all the punishments for our sins. He had exchanged His righteous position for our sinful nature. At the cross, all our sins had been forgiven and the bible says that God shall remember our sins no more. This should give us the confidence to go to the throne of grace in time of need. The more of grace we see in Jesus, the more we will not want to sin.

There are many stories in the bible that tells us how God blesses a person even out of his or her wrong doings. For example, Abraham lied about his wife Sarah been his sister twice and yet God blessed Abraham with plenty of sheep and oxen and servants. Sarah commanded Abraham to sleep with her maid Haggai and a son was born. Years later, Isaac was born to Sarah and Abraham. Jacob lied to his father Isaac to obtain the firstborn blessing though he was the second son. God blessed Jacob with all things and even changed his name to Israel. Job was blessed doubled for all the troubles he went through. He was too proud to recognise his own sins in the first.

As beloved of the most high God, we can expect blessings from God out of our troubles even though they were our own doings. If we had lost money because of greed, God can still load us with his financial blessings. If we are suffering from some forms of illness because we had abused our bodies, God can and will heal us completely of that illness. If we had neglected our loved ones while we were young, God wants to mend that relationship.

God is a good God. We don't have to beg him for blessings for He had displayed His love for us at the cross so that we will lack nothing in our lives while on earth. He wants to bless us so much that we can be a blessing every where we go. Trust in His love for us. Believe in Jesus' finished work. Hallelujah.

Family relationship with God

God wants to have a family relationship with us. That's probably the relationship He treasures the most in the new covenant for we are called sons and daughters the moment we believe in Jesus and His finished work at the cross and His resurrection on the third day.

In the natural, we treasure family relationship the most. Have we hear of a dying man at his bed lamenting on his missed opportunities at work? Have we hear a man at his final hour on earth talking about the top prize toto which he should have bought? How often do we hear of people longing to see certain son or daughter because he or she is overseas? How often do we hear of a patriarch figure wishing to mend his relationship with his prodigal son at his death bed?

Abba Father wants us, sons and daughters of the most high God, to have an intimate family relationship with Him. He is so rich that He wants to lavish His love and riches on His sons and daughters. He is more than able to meet all our needs and much more. He is more than willing to come to our level of faith to see us through our challenging situation. He is El Shaddai! He wants all His sons and daughters to be abundantly provided for.

Trust in His fatherly love towards us. He had given us Jesus, what more will He, with Jesus, not give us? Lean on His love for us. Hallelujah!

God counts the number of your hair on your head

Nothing is too small or too big for God. Anything that troubles a believer, Abba Father knows about it and has a solution for it long before that thing/event troubles a believer. The bible says that God even counts the number of hairs on believer's head.

God is always looking out for His children and His people. He showed His love for the world by sending His only begotten Son, Jesus, to be crucified at the cross. Through that ONE sacrifice, all our sins are forgiven and whoever accepts the gift of salvation is made righteous. Whoever accepts the Son can go to the Father directly in his/her prayer. He/she can talk to Abba Father directly.

There were many instances in the bible where God's love was manifested in the natural. After God created Adam and Eve, He didn't just leave them and let them be. He came, daily, in the evening to commune with them. God came to talk to them like a caring Father would do.

When Joshua took over the reign from Moses, he was apprehensive about undertaking the leadership position to lead the children into the promised land. Before they came to the wall of Jericho, God appeared as an Angel with a sword in His right hand to assure Joshua that God was with him and His people.

When Jesus was walking on earth, He set a man who was demons possessed free where no man dare come near the man. Jesus touched the leper who was probably devoid of human touch when He healed him. He even raised Jairus' daughter who was dead and commanded that food be given to the girl. Jesus went about healing and doing good.

Whatever we are facing today, knows that God is with us and He is doing mighty things behind the scene for our own good. Just trust in His love for us for He loves us more than we can love ourselves. Hallelujah.

What's in God's heart?

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

That is possibly what God is thinking all the time. He wants us to prosper, and to be in robust health as our souls prosper. He wants us to be so filled of Jesus and His finished work at the cross that we will know Jesus will take care of us in every aspect of our lives, that He is vitally involved in our daily activities.

God is not a God who is far far away in Heaven that we have to be really good in order to be right with Him. He wants to be so close to us that He sent His Holy Spirit to dwell in us. He wants us to filled of the Holy Spirit so that our every word and action is guided and directed by the Holy Spirit. He has His word for us in the bible to know more of Jesus, to have a fresh revelation of Jesus daily.

God only has good thoughts toward us. He wants us to come to Him boldly. He wants to commune with us every moment. He loves us so much as to send His only begotten Son to divinely exchange His position with us at the cross.

Be bold to go to Abba Father for even the smallest thing that bothers us, for He cares. Nothing is too small or too big for our God. Put our trust in Him and He will see us through. Hallelujah!