DAILY HOPE - The Better Life

[Pray It Forward Everyday]

“Listen! I am standing and knocking at your door. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and we will eat together.” (Revelation 3:20 CEV)

When I was a kid, my mom fed me SpaghettiOs. I thought it was the best food ever! Then I discovered In-N-Out burgers. I then went from the good life to the better life. SpaghettiOs were good, but a juicy In-N-Out burger is much better.

You might think you have a good life right now, but if you could have an even better life, wouldn’t you want to know about it?

Unfortunately, what keeps us from grabbing hold of that better life is an irrational sense of self-sufficiency. We think we’re doing fine on our own.

Psalm 10:4 says it like this: “The wicked people are too proud. They do not look for God; there is no room for God in their thoughts” (NCV).

Just like the innkeeper in the first Christmas story (Luke 2), we don’t believe we need more guests. We think we have everything we need.

There’s only one problem with that arrogance: You miss the very reason God created you. God made you so that you might have a relationship with him. You’ll never fulfill his purpose for your life, which is far grander and more significant than you ever imagined, unless you are plugged in to God, your true power source.

But the good news is that it’s not too late. You can have a relationship with him no matter what has happened in your past, no matter how many times you’ve rejected him before.

God made it so simple that anyone can understand. It’s only three words: Invite him in.

Jesus said, “Listen! I am standing and knocking at your door. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and we will eat together” (Revelation 3:20 CEV).

Jesus is knocking at your door. Take hold of the better life by letting him into your life. Make him the boss of your life.

It’ll change everything.

 

[Emmy]

Dear Pray It Forward Everyday. Yes, to ask Jesus into our hearts is a good start, and to start following Jesus`s Commandments to Love God and love our neighbour as we love ourselves, is the proof to give God that we mean it.
In Matthew 22: 35-40: Jesus tells a Lawyer: " The first and great Commandment is: Love God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. The second is like it: Love thy neighbour as thyself."
Then Jesus gives us this great fact: " On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." God wants our Love, freely given and NO conditions tagged on. We start by asking God: Matthew 7: 7-10: God will give us His Love and Joy, and the Holy Spirit will empower us with His love, also.
Then we thank God and share all Love and Joy with our neighbour; all we know
and all we meet, friends and not friends. God sees our sincere efforts, and God will Bless us. We keep asking God and thanking God, then we share all Love and Joy with our neighbour. God is Love, and Love is a Christian`s great weapon, with love we will overcome all enmity and wrong behaviour.
The Bible also tells us: " Repent," and also " Be Born Again." no more selfishness and without love for our neighbour, gradually we change into the men and women which God wants us to become: Loving God with all our beings, and loving and treating all around us---as we would love to be treated.
We might stumble and forget sometime, but then we ask God to forgive us, and carry on loving and caring. Love is very catching, and we will become sign-posts to God our Heavenly Father.
Some of us will find the loving and caring a bit strange to follow, but Love will always make us the victor, in all we say or do, all we advice and stand for.
Jesus our Saviour will help and guide us: JESUS IS THE WAY, and with God on our side, who or what could be against us?
I say this with love, PrayItForwardEveryday. Greetings from Emmy, your sister in Christ.