SO I BELIEVE INTRODUCTIONS ARE IN ORDER.
Now WHO do I need to introduce so badly that I am making sure that you are seeing this? Well non other than the One who gave me life and is teaching me…
In short… God…
Now why do I want to introduce God to you….
Well because I know many do not know Him… And I know many think He might be like zues or something like that (I once did)…
Who is God, The Father anyway?
Lately I have started to experience the Father Heart of God… Now this doesn’t mean I know everything… I will though INTRODUCE what He allowed me to know and showed me…
Now what I realized is that God DOES:
1) …LOVE – God showed His love to me in this way, that while I was still a messed up, good for nothing, He still loved me, and showed me the truth about me…
2) …CARE – In the last week I was in a rage hit… Very angry… And felt forsaken… God cared so much that He encountered me and showed me who much He loves me…
3) …ENCOURAGE – Every time when I feel that my life falls apart and I feel useless, He always sends someone (or in peculiar cases comes to me Himself) to encourage me and give me HOPE…
4) …PROTECT – God does protect… If He didn’t protect, I would most likely have been hurt more than I can comprehend … Yes, I came out of some sticky situations… A few years ago I got hit by a car, and walked away with only a scratch on my back…
5) …COMFORT – He was always there when I needed someone to comfort me… And gave me hope…
6) …TEACH – He has taught me what I know today, if it wasn’t for Him I would never have been able to blog, or understand half the things I know now… My view on marriage IS based on what He taught me.
THE FATHER IS ALSO MY FATHER… GOD IS MY FATHER…
Who is Jesus (The Son) anyway?
Now with Jesus, I have the least experience, yet LATELY I started to find Him… Realizing that sometimes I might have to seek…
This part I will split into two parts…
FIRSTLY:
I am looking AT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SON…
A son IS NOT worried about what people think, when he does what he loves:
Jesus never thought that He was weird for doing what He loved… But what He loved, we tend to miss… Jesus LOVED what He saw God, the Father, Love… He loved the people, and loved to see people be who they were supposed to be… He preached at a very young age making elders sit and stand in awe of the knowledge He had acquired at a young age… Yet He became a CARPENTER… Knowledge gives power to the one who has it, and knowledge does make a person dangerous… Although when knowledge is not applied correctly, IT BECOMES DESTRUCTIVE… See my post “Knowledge, Who needs it?“
A son convinced of the truth can put up a fight and make any person wonder about many things…
Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. (1 Timothy 4:12 NIV)
When looking at Jesus, He made many people think, and many were caught offside… And this led to the point, where they encountered Jesus… And met God.
A son represents and follows the father…
Jesus made the following statement time and again:
Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. (John 5:19 NIV)
Sons are always ready to do new things…
Jesus very seldom healed people in the same way… He also did miracle which He was allowed to do… He even once walked on water… Never a dull moment…
Sons listen to the input of those who know better…
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. – Roy H. Williams
Jesus regularly set time apart to be with The Father…
Now I want to show what a SON IS ALL ABOUT
This really gives me the idea of what Jesus could have been like… Perfectly calculated about what He did, but known to stand by his moral…
Here is Jesus response to those who defiled the House of His Father:
The Jewish Passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables. After making a whip out of cords, he drove all of them out of the Temple, including the sheep and the cattle. He scattered the coins of the moneychangers and knocked over their tables. Then he told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!” His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.” (John 2:13-17 ISV)
Jesus protected where was needed, and listened clearly to what His Father said… And followed it…
The Son can guide you… For He knew that…
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. (1 John 4:4 NIV)
JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD… HE IS MY BROTHER…
Who is The Holy Spirit anyway?
I believe the Holy Spirit is a person… He IS MY BEST FRIEND.
Why do I make such an obscure statement… Friends with a spirit??? Am I nuts?
Nah… I am fine… This is the Holy Spirit… He is the one that God send to be with everyone at the same time…
Now here is His function (in brief, will have a post about the Holy Spirit later) to what I have experienced:
- He is my Guide
- He is the Messenger
- He is my Interpreter to God
- He is my Way to understand what God says to me.
- He is the One that taught me to discern between right and wrong
- He is the one who reminds me of what God has done and also shows me what I should see at a certain point.
- He is the one that told me that my friends are going through a tough time and also that helped me through mine…
- He is also the one who showed me who the ones are that I can trust…
JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD… HE IS MY BEST FRIEND…
Now that the introductions are out of the way… I ask that you ask God to teach you about WHO HE IS…
HE LOVES YOU…
HE CARES ABOUT YOU…
HE KNOWS YOU…
For all those who wonder if God loves them, I PROMISE YOU THAT HE DOES…
HE TOLD ME YOU MIGHT NEED SOME ENCOURAGEMENT
REMEMBER: THE FATHER, JESUS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT ARE ALL PART OF THE SAME GOD… THEY ARE ONE…
God loves you, no matter how you feel, or what you experience… I pray for those God lays one my heart
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