Worthy

October 5

Jesus is the perfect reflection of the Father. Jesus came not only to save us from our sin but to reveal the Father’s love for us. The God who inhabits eternity knows the frame of His creation. He knows that man, even in his fallen state, yearns for love and acceptance.

When one is in a fractured relationship that should have been rooted in love, one is susceptible to the taunting whisper of the enemy, ‘You are unlovely and unlovable. Neither God nor man can love you.’ To listen to that lie from the pit of hell is to play into the hand of the one who has used lies from the beginning (Genesis 3:1) to accomplish his purpose, “to steal, kill, and destroy” (John 10:10).

Rather than accept the lie of the enemy, we who hunger for love and acceptance must turn to the One who counters his evil; to the One who Jesus goes on to say in that same verse, “…but I have come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.” Whose words shall we then believe? Shall we believe the taunts of the enemy that penetrate our spirit as arrows penetrate a body? Shall we listen to his destructive words that tear down our spirits and reduce our hope to despair?

No! We must receive the words of Jesus who said, “I have loved you as the Father loved Me! REMAIN IN MY LOVE…I have told you these things so you will have the same joy I have and so that your joy will be full…Love each other as I have loved you…” When we believe the One who is Truth, when we commit our heart and our path to Him, we shall not be undone by the evil people we encounter or by the devil himself if he visit us in person.

JESUS WHO IS IN YOU IS GREATER THAN he WHO IS IN THE WORLD.” I John 4:4. TRUST HIM! HE IS WORTHY OF YOUR COMPLETE LOVE AND FAITH!