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Giving your heart to Jesus
It is the end of the first month of the year and we are all planning or thinking about what we are going to do in this year.
We just had a staff meeting to plan for things that we are going to do this year too.
But in the midst of thinking about the new year, we wonder if the year will turn out well for us.
We still have some fears.
We fear that we will not be able to do what we plan to do and fail.
We plan our year around what we think we can do.
When we listen to this, it doesn’t sound very encouraging.
It sounds like we just think of some thing that we want to do in the new year and try to plan for it and hope that all things go well.
Is life suppose to be like this? sometimes it feels like we are all alone trying to make our lives work and we struggle to get through life.
But God did not intend for us to live life like this.
When we become Christians, we learn about Jesus dying on the cross for us and paying the price for our sins and giving us eternal life.
Does knowing this change our lives?
No.
We say that the gospel changes lives, so what is the gospel?
Is the gospel about doing what God calls us to do so that we can have eternal life?
No.
It is not about a transaction.
The gospel is about a loving God who gave up his son to save us who cannot save ourselves.
God shows us his love in that while we were sinners, Jesus died for us.
The gospel is that God loves us and has redeemed us back to him.
So that we can know his love for us.
Do we know the love of God?
Do you know when we see people change in shocking ways?
When people fall in love.
They start doing things that they did not like to do before.
Like some people who do not like to eat vegetables will start to eat vegetables when they have a girlfriend who likes to eat vegetables.
When I was dating my wife, she likes to take photographs.
I did not like to take pictures.
But I went with her to take pictures when she went.
Why?
Because I love her.
I wanted to know her better.
I wanted to spend time with her.
I wanted to be with her.
When I’m with her my priorities change.
I am concerned with what she wants to do more than what I want to do.
It is the same when I came to know that God loves me and Jesus died for me when I did not love him.
In fact when I did not know God, I was a man who cursed God for allowing me to be born.
When someone told me that God loves me and has a plan for my life, I felt the love of God touch my heart, because no one had told me that they love me and would give me a plan for my life.
And God says that God has loved me with an everlasting love and that God has continued to be faithful.
Jn
It is only the love of God that can change our lives.
Our lives are not changed when we only know that Jesus died for us but do not acknowledge that Jesus died for us who did not deserve his love and sacrifice for us.
When we realise that we are sinful and that someone still loves us and gave up everything to save us, this is when our lives will change.
Because we begin to know that the good things that we have we do not deserve , but was given to us freely.
Do we know this love of God? Do we love God for what he has done for us?
Or is it just a responsibility that we feel we need to fulfil?
I think this is a very important question to answer because if we only serve God out of responsibility and not love, in the end everything will not make sense.
So how do we come to know the love of God?
Jesus promises us that he will be with us
In the beginning of the sermon i talked about planning for the new year but sometimes we feel like we are just making plans for the year and hoping that things will go well.
We don’t even know if the plans that we are thinking about are good plans.
Some years we feel like a failure because none of our plans succeed.
But God did not leave us to live life like that with no direction.
God knows that we have no future and hope without his direction.
So he sent Jesus to come to us to show us the love of the father.
Jesus came to show us that God loves us and has a plan for our lives.
We do not have to walk around in the dark and keep falling down.
John 14:15-18
In this verse, it says that if we love God we will obey his commandments and Jesus will ask the father and the father will give us another helper to be with us forever.
This helper is the spirit of truth which the world does not know because the world does not love Jesus and does not obey him.
We will know the helper because he will dwell in us and Jesus says he will not leave us as orphans, Jesus will come to us.
When we read this verses, what do we feel?
We read that Jesus cares for us and sends us a helper when Jesus is gone.
he sends us a helper who will be with us forever who will tell us the truth.
Jesus promises that Jesus will not leave us as orphans, Jesus will come to us.
Many times we live our lives like orphans.
We live like no one cares for us and no one understands us and no one will take care of us.
But when we read these verses, is this true?
No, Jesus has come to show the way to God and when he left to be with the father, Jesus send us the Holy spirit who will help us forever.
There are people who are physical orphans who do not have parents or whose parents do not care about them.
But when we come to know the love of God, we are no longer Orphans.
God has become our protector and defender.
In God we know who we are.
It is the loneliest thing in the world to not know who you are.
But when we become God’s children, God reveals to us that we are loved and precious to him.
2. We will obey Jesus if we love Jesus
Giving your heart to the right person is very important.
Give your heart to the wrong person and the person will take your heart and step on it and break it.
give your heart to the right person and the person will take care of your heart and make it grow.
Who have we given our hearts to?
Have we given our hearts to the one who loves us and has given his life for us?
Or have we given our hearts to the one who never keeps his promises to us.
Jesus who gave up everything for us to know God promises that he has a plan for our lives.
Satan promises us that the desires of the world will satisfy our desires.
but in the end when we pursue the things of the world, we are not satisfied.
When we love someone, when the person asks something from us, most of the time the answer will be yes.
If we know that the promise of Jesus is to help us and Jesus sent us the Holy Spirit to help us.
How will we respond to God.
Will be obey because we know that God loves us and has good things planned for us?
Or will we obey our flesh?
If we obey our flesh, it shows that we do not trust nor desire God’s love or plan for our lives.
Putting our trust in our own flesh and strength will lead to a broken life in the end.
Jn 14:19-
We get to experience the love of God when we obey what Jesus has commanded us to do.
It is only when we obey what Jesus commanded us to do that we come to realise that the promise of God’s provision and hope for us is real.
And we will only be willing to obey God if we love God.
We will see God and have life when we obey God.
Let us come before God and really come to know the love of God in our lives by obeying God.
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