“A CHANGE!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 695

August 6, 2024//

As I was reading the Bible this morning it occurred to me how difficult what happens when we believe in Jesus, is to those who have not received.

Christians sometimes talk in a language that may seem foreign to a nonbeliever but is the key to living the best life here on earth and spending eternity in a perfect place with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Jesus, much of the time, used stories and illustrations to explain His point, and that is what I want to do today!

I was reading about Nicodemus who was a religious leader but was thinking in the natural and could not grasp Jesus declaring He must be born again. In his natural mind that was not possible.

Jesus was talking about receiving life inside us to give us peace, guidance, and help us live the best life that we are all created for.

Jesus explained that we cannot see the wind, but we see and feel the effects of it. In the same way we cannot see the spirit of man that is deep inside, but we can see the results when we let Jesus rule the deepest part of us.

I want us to think about a beautiful house we see from the outside and we are told it is ours and it is fully furnished with all we need, if we decide to accept it.  If we do, we can receive the key to a much better place than where we are living.

We can admire it from the outside and think of how we would like a change in our life, but until we say yes and take the key, we will never really know how it feels to live there.

When we receive the key and unlock the door and walk in, we see a wonderful place to call home. We can decide we are going to stay right in the first few rooms, or we can venture further into the rooms and things that have been provided for us.

This gives us a new place to live and a new view of life and the better way to live.

When we bypass the difficult to understand language and just understand we are loved, and Jesus came to earth as an expression of God’s Love to man! And we want the way He leads us; we have the keys to a better life as we allow the real us to line up with the greater plan for us. We can then go further into the house of His love and receive more peace and joy!

But like Nicodemus, we sometimes have a problem getting past the natural seeing to receiving the supernatural.

If you have never received Jesus as your personal Savior, it may sound strange but if you want a better life, just open your heart and be honest in prayer and you will walk through that door of better. Don’t reject it! Try it! It is real!

To you who are Christians, I encourage you to pray for others that they will open their hearts to receive the life that cannot be explained only experienced.

John 3:16–17 (KJV)

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.                                    ¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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Father, in Jesus’ name, open each reader’s heart to receive the better life you have provided. The life of Peace that the world cannot give nor understand.  I release each of us to your lordship! Amen!

Love! MeMaw!