"He is ALWAYS Faithful"-2 Timothy 2:11-13

Have you ever wondered why God continues to love us even when we don't deserve it? I wrote and spoke on this a bit in yesterday's blog, but the question still remains to me, why does God constantly come through for me and love me and remain faithful to me, even when I am unfaithful to Him? Why is it that He is always there to hold us up even when we've committed the same sin for the Umpteenth (is that a word?) time? Time and time again, God has shown me His faithfulness and you know what I've done in return? Remained unfaithful, you know I think what we are guilty of doing sometimes is thinking nothing of sin, I mean we commit sin everyday and we throw it off as the cliche, "well we all sin everyday." My problem with that lies in the fact that I want to be faithful to God and sometimes I just have the hardest time being faithful, remaining sinless even for an hour, or praising my God when I overcome a temptation.

Isn't it great to know that God is faithful to us even when we SO don't deserve for Him to be? It blows my mind each day to know how much God loves me and how even when I turn my back on Him and remain in sin, or even when I pay Him no attention that He remains there waiting for me to come back to Him. Even when He's the last thought in my mind, I'm the first in His...crazy huh? It would be so easy for Him to just say "forget it...I'm not gonna continue to love Him when he continues to screw up all the time" but He never says that and He always promises that He will remain with us, it's a crazy thought! Just an encouragement to you...God will remain faithful to you even when you're not faithful to Him and I'll say it again...when He's the last thought on your mind, you're the first on His-Grace and Peace.

"Here is a trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him; If we endure, we will also reign with Him. If we disown Him, He will also disown us; IF WE ARE FAITHLESS, HE WILL REMAIN FAITHFUL, FOR HE CANNOT DISOWN HIMSELF."-2 Timothy 2:11-13

"We Needed to Be Loved"

1 John 4:7-5:3




There are some facts that need to be pointed out in this Passage...
1. The word "love" appears in this book of I John 46 times, but 32 of those are in this passage alone.
2. It can be compared to that of I Corinthians 13 (Love Chapter)
3. There are 3 different kinds of "LOVE" in Scripture and here they are:
a. AGAPE...defined as, "an unconditional commitment to the well being of another person or “I’m committed to your good no matter what, no matter how you treat me, I’m committed to your good."
b. Philia..."Friendship love" can be viewed as 'Give and Take'
c. Eros..."Romantic love"...defined as that infatuation we have with someone we "love", it's sort of a romantic love (what I can take for myself)

God loved us with an AGAPE love, He loved us with that unconditional commitment to our well being, no matter how we treat him, He is committed to our Good, doesn't that just blow your mind, that He would love us in spite of ourselves?

Think about that for a second, no matter what we do, He is committed to our good, sometimes we convince ourselves that other people need to deserve our love, but we are just a channel of His love to be given unconditionally to others.

Question then is: "What LOVE are you loving with today?"

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What's the Deal With the Light? John 8:12-19

Have you ever wondered what the big deal was with the "Light" that Jesus always talked about? If you've ever been in church or ever heard Shaun speak (which you should have...if not...I'm sad...jk) you've heard the phrase or phrases "I am the Light of the World..." or "You must walk in the light as He is in the light..." these two statements are profound if you think about them for a second but it's easy to lose sight of them because they're used so often that it kind of becomes a lost point with us...

So, the question is, what's the big deal about the light?

Well, there's four things about the light that you need to know about if you truly do want Christ to be the light of your life and you want to grow in Him and let others know about Him.

1. Let the Light guide you and let your light guide others (verse 12)

2. Don't ignore the light...God's light will shine for you if you'll be willing to see it...(verse 13-14)

3. Focus on the light and the light in others (verses 15-16)...You ever known that person that claims they're a Christian, yet all YOU see is darkness? Maybe there needs to be a perspective change so you them in the light of Christ, and then you can focus on the light of Christ and the light of others.

4. Recognize the light (verse 17-19)...Can you even see God? Or are there so many things going on in your life that you're light is shaded and God's light is almost non-existent?

• We have got to realize that we need Jesus in order to get through life.


• We've got to dive into relationship with Jesus and love others in the process.


• We've got to run the race set before us in life and not run from it.


• We've got to spread the news of God's gift to us.

THESE ARE ALL EVIDENCES OF THE LIGHT OF CHRIST IN YOU!!!

My encouragement to you?...Quit living in the Darkness and come into God's light for you...love you guys...Grace and Peace!!!