Each of us have heard some variation of the idea of placing our burdens upon the Lord, or bringing all we are and placing it at the feet of Jesus, but does this idea mean for our lives? There is a cross roads in life that many of us come to where we are faced head on with a true realistic view of who we are and what we would be without the Lord’s love in our lives. Yet, so many of us ignore truly what that reality is to produce in our lives. Some to these cross roads, turn and run in the other direction-willfully ignoring the need to see the Love of Jesus for the transformation that it is offering you. For other, they come to the cross roads, see the Love of Jesus for what it is and determine that they cannot be worth such love. Then there are the few that come to this cross road between SELF and the Love of Jesus and they are transformed. Humbled by a Love so great, and yet sustained in their desire to know more of this love in their life…they press onward. It is here, in the heart of those who press forward in the Love of Jesus Christ, that true life WITH Jesus births sustenance in your life. Jesus seeks a relationship with you that is VERY PERSONAL. I call it a “Finger Print Relationship”. This finger print relationship refers to those of us that are seeking to walk with the Lord with such vigor in our hearts that we are unwilling to give in to the human nature to run away in shame of past sins, or pride that we don’t need the intricate involvement of the Lord in our lives. The fingerprint relationship that Jesus is seeking with you is so personal that you being to seek it above all other influences in your life. We aren’t just loved, we are wanted! We aren’t just wanted-we are desired above all else. We are desired so much that the Lord Jesus placed His life on a cross and died to bring the reality of our daily relationship into fruition. You see, Jesus has already given His FULL commitment to us. We aren’t waiting on Him to keep His end of the deal and He isn’t waiting on us to keep ours. What He is doing, is loving you, right where you stand, right where you find life right now….just loving you. When you decide to place your burdens on the Lord or bring all you are to the Lord, you are allowing yourself to become in AGREEMENT with Jesus that you TRUST Him to be what you cannot be for yourself. We are in desperate need for the Lord Jesus Christ, but until we are willing to see that statement for all that it is…we will be stuck in our own form of “wilderness wandering”. When you place yourself in agreement with Jesus that you need Him, He doesn’t hold the fact over your head and beat you down about it. Instead, he immediately begins repair on your heart’s pains. He aids your ability to start learning more deeply of what it means to have HIS LOVE as the sustenance of your life. He draws near to you and works to let you know that no matter what you have done in life….you are His and He loves you. Personal note: I know this journey is a very difficult one, but I am trying to aid your walk. We are more loved than we understand, by the Most High Almighty Lord Jesus. This love with transform your life from whatever it HAS BEEN to whatever it is going to be. The Lord Jesus is very patient and more than willing to build a binding/lasting trust between you. He knows it takes time, after all…He’s the One that made you. God’s blessing be with you this evening. In Christ, Pastor Daniella.