Yes! There is Good News! 7.30.2016

When I began writing these articles a few months ago, I really only had one goal, one desire, and that was to help you, the reader, to come to a closer relationship with our heavenly Father and with His Son. I wanted to, perhaps, highlight the joy and the good things I have felt as I strive to draw near to my God.

I am excited about knowing my God. I am excited about seeking Him with my whole heart and my whole life, and so I wish that others can taste of the good things that God has brought to my life. It is good sometimes to just speak from the heart, to pour out for all to see the wonders of His love. I hope and I pray that my words here on this page will help all to long for a deeper understanding of just how much God wants to be a part of your life. God’s desire to have you seek Him, to have you come to Him in prayer, to have you open up and read His book of love, the Bible, really is beyond our comprehension.

A line from a song I enjoy says this - “You’re wanted, you’re precious, you’re the love of His heart and the old rugged cross was for you ...” I believe that says a lot! Oh, how He wants us to know Him so that He may shower His love upon us whom He has made. My friends and brethren, do you really know how precious you are in His sight?

And so to pick up on last week’s theme, let me say that our God has desired to give us true freedom. It is the world, society, and Satan that wants to put us in chains of bondage. The bondage that comes from sin can seem so enticing. Satan tries to turn things upside down and deceive us into thinking God’s ways are somehow chains of bondage.

“God doesn’t let us to have any fun,” is the broadcast Satan promotes. But the truth, that is the truth that sets us free, allows us to experience the depth of joy that only God can provide. In John 14:27, Jesus says, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives.” His peace is true peace and His joy and His love is true love.

I speak here from first hand experience. I have known that peace, joy and love. It is real and it is beyond our measuring by human means. It is I that slip and fall - not God; It is I that err and fail - not God. His ways are perfect. He is a Father, a parent if you will, like none other. His love is perfect. His instruction is perfect. He is an awesome God, And He offers us true freedom.

More on this next time.