Kept

I have come realize a few things in my life, one is that Jesus loves me more than I could ever imagine.  Another is that I desperately want to please Jesus, the one made me and this world around me, the one who left His place in Heaven to die for me and then three days later rise again and defeat death for me.  To ransom me.  To rescue me.  To bring me into a deep love affair with Him.  

Many of the people who read this have heard this all before, they know the story.  But I'm not writing this to show anyone anything new.  No, instead I'm just reminding my fellow lovers of Christ of what the paragraph I just wrote means to us every single day of our lives.  John 6:35 tells us that, "Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.'"  The overwhelmingly huge implications of this should drive us to our knees daily.  Jesus told us that He is everything we need, and He also told us that when we come to Him we will be completely satisfied in Him, and that He will keep us.  I know not many people believe in absolute truth, but friends this promise came from the mouth of Jesus Christ, who spoke the universe into existence.  It is truth.  We are kept in the loving arms of Jesus.  Every time we rise in the morning we should give praise to God for keeping us through the night.  And every time we eat bread or drink water we should think about the Bread of Life and the Living Water.  Let us not be deceived by people who want only what Christ can give them.  Let us go after Him, be enthralled by Him, motivated by Him who "created the heavens and the earth" because He, and He alone, is worthy of it.  

So this is the first of my letters, hope whoever reads it will ponder it for a while.

In Christ and In Love,

paul