WHY AREN'T WE LOVING JESUS ?

On this earth when someone makes a BIG sacrifice for us we do not forget it. The act shows us that they love us and are truly a friend to us. What greater love than a friend lay down his/her life for us ? Would them losing their life for something we did be the ULTIMATE to us ? Would we beg them not to do it because we know we are the guilty party and not them..that we deserve the penalty because it was US and not them that broke the law ? Those of us that have the Holy Spirit within us would be convicted....and if the sentence was carried out upon the innocent for us we would be so humbled and self convicting knowing they did not deserve the sentence passed down.

WELL....Jesus did just this thing and we as Christians seem to forget just how high a price he really paid because he loved us enough to finish the LAW...to do for us what the LAW could not do because no one else and no animal could do it. It had to be him. He loved us and his heavenly Father so much that he took on the form of an earthly body to come and find out just how it really is for us creatures here on this earth. He came to take on the wrath of God's judgement upon us into himself. He carried the transgressions, iniquities and SIN upon his body and caused his Father to step back because of this ALL because he wanted us not to be lost. He wants us to win ! He wants what is best for us so he did what the LAW could not ! He paid the last blood sacrifice for SINS to our heavenly father. He presented his body as a living sacrifice holy before God our Heavenly Father so that we would not be held to rememberance of our sins anymore. His blood was pure and innocent. He laid his life willingly at the altar to be given as a sacrifice of SIN so God would allow us LIFE !

Only he is able to present us spotless before the CREATOR. He is our adovacte , he is our High-Priest..he ENTERED the Holiest of Holies and went before the Lord on our behalf. We were not worthy of such a sacrifice BUT JESUS ! Stephen saw him STAND UP at the right hand of God the Father because for him Stephen made the ultimate sacrifice and laid down his life just as Jesus did for the FATHER and the whole world. Stephen laid it down for Christ because he knew. As a pastor said on televison the other day, Why do you think the disciples went thru so much pain and rebuke and beatings and scoure ? BECAUSE THEY KNEW ! THEY KNEW JESUS WAS REAL THEY SAW THE NAILS IN THE HAND AND THE FEET THEY SAW THE PIERCED SIDE AND THEY KNOW THAT HE WAS RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD..They count i all joy because they KNOW !

When you know that at the bottom of the mud, slime and gunk there is a priceless reward..when you have seen proof of it and know it has been promised to you then you do not care what you have to go thru to get to it . When you LOVE with all of your heart you do not care about the price you have to pay to be with that person again . So why is it we are not loving JESUS ? WHY are we not loving him ? All that he has done for us no MOTHER, FATHER, BROTHER, GRANDMOTHER/FATHER OR FRIEND HAS EVER DONE SO WHY AREN'T WE LOVING HIM ? Hebrews 10:1-18 tells us of the great sacrifice of Jesus for us. When he came into the world he saith, Sacrifice and Offering thou wouldest not, BUT A BODY hast thou prepared for me ! That right there makes me want to SHOUT HALLELUJIAH AND RUN FOR THE VICTORY ! The Lord has fulfilled the Law ..the law could only bring up the rememberance of sins and bring about death....JESUS thru his body took away the penalyt of death and offered eternal life and forgiveness of sins....he went into hell and preached the gospel and set those prisoners free ! We must love him enough to be obedient to his Word. We all fall short here..Jesus learned obedience by the things he suffered. He knew he had to go thru them to fulfill the WILL OF HIS HEAVENLY FATHER ! When Jesus wills things and allows things in our life we must go thru but we must do so in the manner in which he tells us in his WORD ..and how many of us really do it that way all the time ?? Let me be the first to confess with my mouth in spirit and in truth I DON'T ! Sometimes i have to put myself in rememberance of his WORD and straighten my self up ! This mouth i tell you and these thoughts....GOD has to cover them with the blood of Jesus and i have to repent daily ! Come on now ??!! I know i am NOT the only one !

READ THE WORD..PRAY...MEDITATE..REPENT DAILY....TALK TO JESUS ..JUST OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND TALK TO HIM HE IS PRESENT HE HEARS EVERYTHING, SEES EVERYTHING, READS EVERY THOUGHT, HEARS EVERY MURMUR AND SEES INTO EVERY HEART ! SO JUST TELL HIM THE TRUTH BECAUSE LOVE IS TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS ! After all the Savior has done why are we not loving him ?

MAY THE LORD CONTINUE TO PLACE HIS ANGELS AROUND YOU TO PROTECT YOU AND ALL THAT IS UNDER YOUR HAND UNTIL WE TALK AGAIN..PRAY FOR ME AND I WILL PRAY FOR YOU-FB

PRAISE THE LORD FOR ANOTHER RESURRECTION SUNDAY...WE JUST WENT TO CHURCH AND DID WHAT WE ALWAYS DO STORE THE WORD IN OUR HEARTS AND MINDS AND GIVE HIM THE MUCH DESERVED PRAISE BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT HE LIVES AND IS WATCHING DOWN FROM HIS THRONE IN HEAVEN ! AMEN