To follow JESUS! COME!

Have you ever wondered why we carry the deep longing to be known and accepted? Have you ever felt the need to belong? 
Everyone wants to be loved. And everybody at some point in life wants to belong.
The trouble with some people is they want to be the focus of everyone around. Their biggest need is to be appreciated by all.
When we know we are loved and we are, for John 3.16 says it, then we know we are accepted. And there is no need for someone else to accredit me. I know I am approved by the Almighty God.

God loves you and me. We are created in His image and likeness.

REMEMBER there is no one else like you. You are no accident. You are approved by the Almighty God. 

REMEMBER-REMEMBER, You are His masterpiece. 


When one has to write on someone they love, what do they say, how do the words come of?

I can sit with Jesus and gaze for hours. And Jesus' words, amaze my heart and with each passing day, I know I want to be more like Him.
Each time it is wonderful. His presence immediately touches my heart and I am at ease. Jesus is my heart, my passion, my whole world of love.
He is simple. He is love and understanding.
Jesus lives with a complete submission to the will of His Father.
His heart is compassionate to people who approach Him. He forgives with the words, ‘sin no more’.

His simplicity is the words He speaks, as a person is cured, He says, ‘Your faith has healed you’. He moves me. 

Jesus’s approach is gentle and kind.

His humility to wait in a shape of a Host is most astounding. Jesus-Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, He waits for you and me. He makes it easy for us to approach Him. This is an endearing part of Jesus. A love so humble a love so true.
Jesus died and rose. Jesus feeds us with His Body and Blood in the Eucharist, in order to strengthen us. No greater love a man can have, than that He die to save His friends. He calls us friends.
Jesus is BOLD. His boldness thrills and captivates my heart.
Jesus has set my heart on fire with His love.
His forgiving nature is evident with His dying on the Cross for us. Even more so in the first and second of the 7 last words. His mercy flows especially in the throes of death.
My heart is forever Yours my Beloved. And You are forever mine! My sweet Jesus, You are my every desire.

THE FIRST WORD
“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” 
Luke 23:34 
THE SECOND WORD
“Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
Luke 23:43 
THE THIRD WORD
Jesus said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!”
John 19:26-27 
THE FOURTH WORD
“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” 
Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34 
THE FIFTH WORD
“I thirst.”
John 19:28 
THE SIXTH WORD
“It is finished”; and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
John 19:30 
THE SEVENTH WORD
Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!”
Luke 23:46 

God gave His Son Jesus as the complete expression of His love for us, thus revealing His kindness, compassion, and mercy. Look at Jesus and we see the Father’s love for us. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16 

Jesus, came to drive darkness away from our lives. Through His obedience, our relationship with God was restored, reversing death’s curse forever. In His light, we have life, and the darkness cannot overcome it.

A scribe came and said to Jesus, Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go. Our Lord tells him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath no where to lay his head. Matthew 8:20

To follow Jesus means to forsake all. But do we? Before Covid-19 and the lockdown, people had forgotten what it means to be at home. Dining in restaurants, having and conducting parties and yes travelling the world was a thing to do. It is called living the dream.
To follow Jesus, can be difficult, but when you say you love Jesus, could you possibly think of being a help to someone who is in need and could do with a little help from you. If you try, you will learn. Look to help. 
From the cross, Jesus would return to Heaven. During His stay on Earth, Jesus owned nothing. He was buried in a borrowed grave. 

Jesus said that we do not belong to the world, even as He did not belong to the world.

Jesus's statement reveals His poverty from an earthly viewpoint; and yet “we through His poverty are made rich” 2 Corinthians 8:9.

A person who makes a commitment to follow Jesus to the ends of the Earth, must be willing to die to selfish ambition and vain conceits and follow in the humility of Christ. 
We cannot love the world and the things of the world (all the glitter and the glamour) and love God at the same time because the values of the world are not compatible with the values of the kingdom of God.

If God takes everything away from you, just like God allowed with Job, would you love Him? Would you in your deepest time of trial, trust in Him?
When faced with trials-tribulations, it is even more difficult to do what Jesus did. It is difficult to deny oneself and so easy to give in to the lures of the world. It is difficult to follow Jesus. To love someone especially when the hurt is the most. To love at all-when wounded like Jesus, it is not easy.

Not having anywhere to lay His head - (in the way as Jesus did) means that you have to endure a certain hardship. If you want to follow Me, says Jesus, you have to be prepared for hardship. We are bound to suffer in the course of discipleship. To follow Jesus means to share in His persecutions. And he said to all, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. Luke 9:23

Being a Christian means we will be persecuted one way or another. Persecution-trials are a Cross that we must carry with love. Being a Christian then is to burn your bridges behind you. There is no turning back. Paul says, ‘Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.’ Philippians 3:13-14 As Paul says, I have made the decision to serve the Lord. I don’t look back. I look ahead with a singular dedication to the task.

To follow Jesus is tough, but it is worth it because it means to be with God. 

Salvation requires belief in JESUS as the Son of God!
This is the key. This is our Faith.

REMEMBER: The foxes and birds, all the animals of creation have a place, but the Son of Man does not. 

Jesus, comes to the world because God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son so that all should have life. 

This is Perfect Love!