With no doubt.

 The center shows where it all started. We do have good years and bad years, some cracks and some bruises. God holds us together and Jesus shows our strength and beauty.

Revelation chapter 7 verse 10.

 And they were shouting with a mighty shout, "Salvation comes from our God upon the throne, and from the Lamb."

It will only be when you have come to the decision that maybe through God you might find peace. 

   You have not put any thought one way or another towards God before. And if you had, you probably brushed Him aside quickly, for you did not want to fall into being misled by something you could not see or touch.

   You have gotten by. You have struggled through. It is not comfortable when relationships fail. When jobs are taken away. When those whom you live with daily are suddenly no longer there. Or when those you care about are stricken with illness and failing health. 

   But no matter what goes on around you, you continue to wake up the next day. You continue to live in among the mess of life and do your best to get through. You keep on trying so hard, it's exhausting. You think maybe drugs and alcohol will provide the happy feeling you so long for. You realize how quickly that is not true. 

   No matter all your efforts to get happiness, you hold on to the memories of past moments. Your life goes on and you decide that maybe God is a choice, one that you never really looked at before. He will be hard to accept. He wants you to change from trusting in yourself to trusting in Him and Him alone. 

   Your choice to call out to Him comes from a heart that is broken, tired and weary. Your fed up and ready for something different. You do not know what will happen but you are willing to call out. From there you can decide what is right and if you will continue. 

   Proverbs chapter 8 says, "Wisdom and good judgement live together, for wisdom knows where to discover knowledge and understanding. If anyone respects and fears God, he will hate evil. For wisdom hates pride, arrogance, corruption and deceit of every kind."

   You are not a bad person. You try to live a good life. You are no different than anyone else. Use wisdom to make right choices. Be confident in the love you have for yourself and the love others have for you. People do care, even if your choices have not always been the correct ones. The only way you will truly know real love, that is God's love for you and His love working through you, is to reach out to Him seeking His help and He will give you the strength, the wisdom and the power to overcome.

   People never stop failing. They cannot live up to God's expectations, they do what they think and that takes their minds off of God and His love for us through Jesus. You are not alone and you are definitely loved by God. He created you and wants the best for you. So go after the one who can help, before you waste away the time you have here, to show with love, God's amazing love for all people. 

   Romans chapter 5 verses 3-6 say, "We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials for we know that they are good for us---they help us to learn to be patient. And patience develops strength of character in us and helps us trust God more each time we use it until finally our hope and faith are strong and steady. Then, when that happens, we are able to hold our heads high no matter what happens and know that all is well, for we know how dearly God loves us, and we feel this warm love everywhere within us because God has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with His love. When we were utterly helpless with no way to escape, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners who had no use for Him."

   Your life was a mess and God sent Jesus at just the right time to lift you out of your mess. You died, so to speak, to your old life and stepped into your new life with Christ who's death on the cross made possible the life you can have with God. 

   It is through God that you will find peace, happiness and an everlasting joy. But the world teases us and taunts us with desires, and temptations that play havoc with our emotions. Worry, anxiety, anger greed, jealousy and envy are easily preyed upon. And everyone of them take our thoughts off of God. It does not matter who you are, the things of this world try their best to take your thoughts away from God. 

   That is why it is important to read the bible, to seek after God and to practice living a life that is pleasing to Him. Trust in Him for everything. By doing that you will know peace. 

   We are to fit in. You will learn from Jesus what it means to fit into this world knowing that God is watching over you as you keep your eyes upon Him, guided by Him, protected by Him, leaving you filled with praise, worship, honor and a grateful heart exploding with joy. He will amaze you with His touch upon your life. 

   In Matthew chapter 24, Jesus is talking to the disciples about the end times and that we need to hold on tightly to His words and not be taken in by being misled. In Verse 36 Jesus tells them, "No one knows the date and hour when the end will be---not even the angels. No, nor even God's Son. Only the Father knows." 

   Jesus continues to tell them to be prepared. Verses 43-47 say, "Just as a man can prevent trouble from thieves by keeping watch out for them, so you can avoid trouble by always being ready for My unannounced return. Are you a wise and faithful servant of the Lord? Have I given you the task of managing My household, to feed My children day by day? Blessings on you if I return and find you faithfully doing your work. I will put such faithful ones in charge of everything I own!"  

   Jesus was a carpenter, from a family in a small town. He knows the trials and challenges we face each day. As God's Son, as the Christ, the Messiah, He talked about God and went around helping people. He invites us to live with Him in the presence of God. Your peace of mind, comes from knowing God as your Father, the creator of your life, whom put breath into your lungs and has made you alive in His world.  

   1 John chapter 4 says it the best way. "As we live with Christ, our loves grows more perfect and complete; so we will not be ashamed and embarrassed at the day of judgement, but can face Him with confidence and joy, because He loves us and we love Him too. We need have no fear of someone who loves us so perfectly; His perfect love for us eliminates all dread of what He might do to us. If we are afraid, it is for fear of what He might do to us, and shows that we are not fully convinced that He really loves us. So you see, our love for Him comes as a result of His loving us first."

   Matthew chapter 7 verse 33 says, "He will give them to you if you give Him first place in your life and live as He wants you to." 

   2 Chronicles chapter 16 verses 8 and 9 say, "You relied then on the Lord, and He delivered them all into your hand. For the eyes of the Lord search back and forth across the whole earth, looking for people whose hearts are perfect toward Him, so that He can show His great power in helping them. What a fool you have been! From now on you shall have wars." 

   In order to trust we need to be comfortable, prepared and aware. Our struggles are nothing new to us. We have been watching, guarded and ready to defend if needed what little amount of peace we have. Having a place to retreat to is important. There we may not be bothered by others, there we can eat without rushing, there we may find rest. 

    In Jeremiah chapter 29 God is speaking through the prophet Jeremiah saying, "The truth is this: You will be in Babylon for a lifetime. But then I will come and do for you all the things I have promised, and bring you home again. For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. You will find Me when you seek Me, if you look for Me in earnest." 

   God wants to provide for you, what you have been unable to do for yourself. Each day you wake up to another day. You do not know what it will bring. Maybe good or maybe frustration. God says, He is the Creator of each day and you have been placed in it to care for what He has Created. So that must mean you are living in His home. And He see's you as His child. Go to Him for you have been lost and He has made it possible for you to find your way home through Jesus. 

   Thank You Father for Jesus. Thank You for our home with You. It can be hard to see and it can cause confusion, but once You show us, Jesus makes it clearly seen and understood. 😊

     

1 John chapter 4 verses 9 and 10.

God showed how much He loved us by sending His only Son into this wicked world to bring to us eternal life through His death. In this act we see what real love is: it is not our love for God, but His love for us when He sent His Son to satisfy God's anger against our sins. 

1 John chapter 4 verses 11-13.

Since God loved us as much as that, we surely ought to love each other too. For though we have never yet seen God, when we love each other God lives in us and His love within us grows ever stronger. And He has put His own Holy Spirit into our hearts as a proof to us that we are living with Him and He with us.

Verse 14.

And further more, we have seen with our own eyes and now tell all the world that God sent His Son to be their Savior. Anyone who believes and says that Jesus is the Son of God has God living in Him, and He is living with God. We know how much God loves us because we have felt His love and because we believe Him when He tells us that He loves us dearly. God is love, and anyone who lives in love is living with God and God is living in him.  

Colossians chapter 3 verses 12 and 13.

Since you have been chosen by God who has given you this new kind of life, and because of His deep love and concern for you, you should practice tenderhearted mercy and kindness to others. Do not worry about making a good impression on them but be ready to suffer quietly and patiently. Be gentle and ready to forgive; never hold grudges. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.