The Cure

James 4:7, 8, 9, 10

So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil,

and he will flee from you. Draw close to God and He

will draw close to you.   Let there be tears for the

wrong things you have done.  When you bow down

before the Lord and admit your dependence on Him,

He will lift you up and give you honor. (NLT)

     To find any lasting peace in this life we must avoid the darkness of decadence that blinds us from the Truth and to escape the deadly and final wrath of God's judgment, we must first and foremost believe and accept that Jesus Christ is the Lord over all creation and humbly accept His gift of forgiveness and salvation.  We must believe that Jesus is the Son of God—that He was fully man and fully God—One with the Father and One with the Holy Spirit, who created the universe and everything else that exists.  We must know about and believe in God’s ultimate plan for man and creation.  And if you want to participate in His glorious redemptive plan, you must live in Christ Jesus and follow the Way that leads to righteous living and everlasting life.  But if you decide to follow your own way, just as this fallen world teaches us to do, you will become a recipient of the unfortunate and deadly part of God’s Great Plan for man. 

     All of us come into this world as sinners who love to do whatever we want.  Most of us are shaped by the world’s view on life and death, and most of us spend much of our allotted time on this earth living the lie with a false sense of security.  And because of this, many of us have experienced the hope and joy of life sucked right out of our very being, leaving us miserable, hopeless, and wondering why we even try hanging on.  Without the hope we have in Jesus, we have nothing but more broken promises and more fear of the unknown until the light of our life is snuffed out.  Everything this world has to offer is at best temporary and the only real promise it can keep is death.  God has been more than gracious since the day the world fell into the darkness of sin, because He had the plan for man before the world was created.  Are you tired of being betrayed and lied to by this world?  Are you sick of always being disappointment and craving more from a world that cannot deliver enough?  Well, my friends, there is a cure for the emptiness and hopelessness that ravages our world, and that cure is found in the precious, sacrificial blood of Jesus, for in Him there is forgiveness and a glorious new life that lasts forever.

                           A Whisper of Hope

Be cured, My child…of the disease that leads to eternal death.  Let Me save your life, because living in the pleasures of this sin-filled world is a death sentence.  Living in Me is your life sentence.  You have the freedom to choose, but choose wisely while you have the breath of life.

Revelation 7:17

“For the Lamb who stands in front of the throne will be

their Shepherd.  He will lead them to the springs of life-

giving water.  And God will wipe away all their tears.”  (NLT)

                       Thank God for His Son—

            a gift too wonderful for words.

                             (2 Corinthians 9:15)