What a couple of week it has been in retrospect. What a terrible act of Terrorism. Who could believe seeing the New Zealand Police force out in large numbers with there rifles in hand. The tributes to the Muslims families and the river of flowers meters deep and many meters long. The people gathered near the Mosques just standing in quiet repose and often with tears streaming down their faces. Contemplating the act of terror that took fifty people in the midst of their lives. Talented people, some old and some young others in their prime. It cut us to the quick as New Zealand citizens and caused an outpouring of love from within our very hearts. Because that is who we are as a nation. A people who would give the shirt of our back or take anyone into our home to get them back on their feet without sparing a second thought.
I believe this love comes from the people that we are and the religion that we have followed in the past. Many of us are still Christians. Apparently their are still forty four percent of New Zealanders that relate to the Christian religion as of the 2018 census. But given that there was such national outpouring of love for the families of the Christchurch Shooting victims. A lot of people are living a Christian life but denying the power. Why would you do that? What is the point of being a good or a righteous person if your life has no real point. Nothing to give you hope. If you believe that this is it. You’re going to be along time dead. You know the the drama. We’ve all heard it.
Well have I got good news for you. This isn’t all there is! Jesus loves you with all of his great and Godly heart and he has plans for you. In the Old Testament the Prophet Jeremiah says this about you “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11.
My friends, Jesus loves you and wants to bring you into his family as his personal brothers and sisters. He has paid the price for your sins by taking the weight of them on the cross shedding his sinless blood as God’s only begotten Son to cleanse them away forever (1Peter 2:24). So if you believe on him you will be free of sin and have eternal life (John 3:16).
Now, I know that Christians get a bad wrap when it comes to being at times less than welcoming and quite judgemental. Hence all the discourse among secularists about the need for anti-hate speech legislation and to muzzle Christians for being anti homosexual, anti women’s rights and in short just plain discriminatory. Please believe me when I tell you that Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God is welcoming to everyone and loves all of us. Imagine Jesus as the Son of Man standing facing you with his arms outstretched and a welcoming and loving smile on his face. Saying “Come unto me all ye who are heavy laden and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28
He would negotiate your freedom as he did with the woman who was brought to him to for committing adultery who the authorities were about to stone and they sought to trap Jesus in judging her. What did he say? “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” When the woman’s accusers walked away one by one. He then said to her “Woman, where are those thine accusers? Has no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.” John 8: 10-11
Jesus always said those five words to those he healed or helped as they interacted with him “Go and sin no more.” But his love was unwavering and his compassion as deep as an ocean. Jesus of Nazareth the only begotten Son of Jehovah loves you. He has plans for you to prosper you not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future. Won’t you turn aside from your path. Turn aside from the arduous journey that is your life. Won’t you listen for a moment to the King of Kings who created you and does not want you to perish in your sins. To Jesus Christ the Son of Man, the Son of God, who took the sins of a lost mankind on his shoulders on the Cross at Calvary. Who shed his sinless blood for you. Who would say to you believe on me unto eternal life and go and sin no more.
You should know that Jesus is “The way, the truth and the life and that no man comes to the father but through him.” John 14:6. You should also know that “There is none righteous not even one.” Romans 3:10. “For all have sinned and all fall short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23 and “... the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6.23. So don’t feel judged by your fellow man, be he Christian or not because we all fall short of Gods glory. Each and every one of us and the wages of our sin is death. That is what we deserve but Jesus loves us and so the freely given gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
My dear friends. God so loved you that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes on Him shall not perish but will inherit eternal life. John 3:16. So won’t you ask him to forgive your sins and come into your heart so that you might receive forgiveness for your sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit in your life. Acts 2:38. Please give this plea your utmost consideration.
My God bless you and keep you. May he touch your heart that when you hear him knock you might ask him to come in and receive his gift of eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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