Yesterday I spoke of the idea that many people are willing to accept the idea of there being a Jesus Christ, but few allow themselves trust Christ to become intricately involved in their lives. 

When people are told that the love of Jesus is offered only through a merit system, When the courage is summoned long enough to step foot in a church only to be met with judgmental glances, When those sent to be the “children of God” find more reasons to exclude than to include………you can easily see why a discouragement towards the involvement of Jesus can begin.  

Jesus Christ is not a religion. He is the Son of God seeking to love the whole of humanity…not just the select few that others of this world would deem “worthy”.  When Christ is presented in a light that cast undue shadow upon His character, the result is an overwhelming mistrust of just Who Jesus Christ is and the true intentions that He has for our lives. 

Today, I would like to talk about discovering, perhaps for the first time, the true heart of Jesus Christ. In order to truly “trust” anyone in life, we decide that we have learned enough of their character and habitual actions that we can feel “safe” to allow a belief that they are someone who won’t hurt us.  This process of thought holds true within our relationship with Jesus.  We are on a journey with Jesus Christ, learning to trust that He is all He is said to be.  Please understand something, Jesus knows how HARD it is for a hurting person to open their lives to Him. But, Jesus is patient and better than anyone in your life, He truly seeks the best for you.  He’s willing to walk a lifetime with you in order that you learn of Him and grow in your trust of Him daily. He just wants you to begin the walk with Him, step by step, day by day.

As I spoke of above. Trust is a time stamped process. Not built in a day, but more rather a seed planted within us that is slowly and lovingly fed in order that it’s strength gains daily. In order to learn of the Lord Jesus Christ, we must first turn to the only source that has never misrepresented Him, the Bible. Many of us know some scriptures that have been quoted here or there on a social media sight or seen on a billboard. Each of them powerful scriptures, but when we are unsure how to apply them to our lives, we find can find ourselves thinking, “Great text, what do I do with it?”

We are told (John 1:4) that Jesus Christ is the source of Life, and that this Life is the Light of all humanity.  The morning breaks and the day’s events seem to slap each of us up the face with stresses. Each of us are seeking a renewal within our bodies and minds daily. Jesus Christ offers to be this renewal of Life that we are desperate to find.  The Life that He brings to our daily life is to be the Light shed across the day’s events encouraging us to not take hold of the reigns of worry, but instead to seek the Face of Christ, our Life giver and Light bringer, as our day’s motivation.  I say Face of Christ, and something like that might not make all the sense in the world at first.  I guess in a way, I used to think it didn’t myself…but then I after the birth of my children I started to understand what this phrase truly meant in our life.

When my children were babies they were never really grand about going to anyone but me.  When they would find themselves in the arms of someone other than me, their face would become distressed and quickly their eyes would start to dart around in search of me.  All their stresses would subside and peace would return to them once I came in to view.  I picture this scenario being much to our lives as it was to my children’s…Our lives are stressed, out of sorts, and we are in constant seek for the source of comfort. This comfort we seek comes from only One source in our lives, the sight of Life giving Light bringing Jesus Christ.  

When we allow Life’s renewal and comfort to brought to us through Jesus Christ, we are learning what it means to allow the Light within the Lord’s life giving love to be the guide we need. We are learning that grasping at the fragility of life’s situations to be a source of peace giving comfort and stability is never going to play out in our favor. Life’s circumstances offer many a frustration, not a comfort. And if it is comfort that we are finding in a situation, it’s often times a temporary comfort.  Learning to let the Life that Jesus Christ is for our lives become the first thing we seek in a day, will aid us in setting the tone for our day and through that mental state of being we find that less of our thinking is quickly shaken by the disappointments and troubles each of us are dealing with.  Tomorrow we will explore another truth of Who our Lord Jesus Christ is to our lives.  For now, I remind you that Jesus Christ knows this takes time, but the most important thing is to start STEP BY STEP, allowing Jesus Christ into your lives. I wish you a blessed evening. Pastor Daniella https://twitter.com/PastorDaniella  http://pastordaniellaministries.weebly.com