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Have you ever felt like you’re missing something?

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We are missing something in our life aren’t we? Have you ever felt that way? When Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden, sin for the very first time entered into the world because of it. And because of their disobedience to a faithful and loving God, a ‘spiritual death’ had come upon them. Sin is equated with spiritual death. Sin is what separates us from God the Father because God cannot be in the presence of sin for he is holy. This spiritual death is a void in us, and a broken relationship between God and us, because of this innate sin nature all of us have since the time of Adam. THAT is the very thing that you’re missing that you may not have even thought of before and not thoroughly understanding of it and what this means.

Adam and Eve walking with God before sinning you must realize had the perfect life! They would not know any sorrow, pain, or even death before they chose to sin against God. Let’s see, great relationships – check, a beautiful home – check, great food – check, great scenery – check, no rushing, no hassles, and best of all – getting to talk with and walk with God, the creator of this world who made you and the universe – check! Hmm perfection in this world, who wouldn’t take that!?

Really? No fighting, killing, hurtful words, senseless actions, no wars, drugs or dentists, no concern about money, no illness, no abuse, no crazy people running things, no chaos, or confusion? Sounds sublime, so peaceful… a utopian state. I could get into that. Who doesn’t want peace, love, joy, patience, less burdens, more direction and guidance, and most of all feeling whole and complete, and being able to get rid of all our load… our sins! Jesus tells us his burdens are light and his yolk is easy! In Matthew 11:28-30 Jesus states, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” That my friend is a promise to all who will come to know him!

Now there is no way that Adam and Eve could have understood all the implications/consequences of what their disobedience would cost them and all those who came after them, or maybe they would of thought twice don’t you think?! They should have kept their eyes on Jesus Christ. We are so like them aren’t we? But Jesus beckons us to come for he is the answer for all of this.

So… because of sin and how this separates us from God, we each walk around this earth with something we are truly missing… which you may already realize, or maybe not. We are each missing our ‘spiritual side’ because of Adam and Eve’s story in the garden. God had punished Adam and Eve for sinning, and he then put a separation between him and them. No more a perfect world for them. God cannot be in the presence of any sin because he is perfect and he is holy. So God, because of his great love for us, fixed this problem by sending Jesus (his son and God incarnate) to die instead of us. Jesus died on the cross and rose again three days later. He became our ransom. And he rose again defeating Satan proving he was and is alive and well. For us now we can know he is alive and well right now, right where you are, and forever more will be. And He’s arranged for you to have this gift of his son Jesus Christ, free and for the believing, just as you are right now. You can do nothing to earn this. Part of Ephesians 2:8,9 states, …’For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.’ So you’re to come just as you are, no fixing yourself up first. An eternal, infinite sacrifice was needed to cleanse us and make us right before him. And by God’s grace alone, when we genuinely take and receive this free gift, believing in Jesus Christ by faith and realizing in this that we fullheartedly desire and do repent and desire a full turn from our sins – he in turn comes, forgives us, and gives us his holy spirit and we become born again. Read John 3:1-8. He gives you his holy spirit and God’s holy word to help you, to teach you and guide you here. And you will become more and more like him as the time goes by. He gives you peace and love, and a joy that transcends through every sorrow. Jesus says your burdens can be light with him. He and his Word (the Bible, I use the KJV) gives you his direction and guidance and how he wants us to live our best life in this world. And the best of all he makes you feel complete because you are now whole/complete in him and are born again! The spiritual void will be gone. Look and read the book of John in the new testament to find out more. I could not in my own words simply express all I was feeling when this happened to me so many years ago. What love and what a mystery it still is for me! You will have your ‘spiritual’ side back now! In John 10:10 Jesus says, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” You see, there is no real life without him.

Don’t get me wrong here… life will not be perfect because this world is a fallen world without Jesus Christ in everyones lives. But the main thing is when we become born again we will know the truth. We will be as pilgrims on this road with him. And we will have Jesus forever and for always! He is our life, our truth, and our way. In John 14:6 Jesus states, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” With him we have the life, we have the truth, we have the way! When we pass away we have his promises that we will be living eternally with him… where all will be made right and there will be no more crying, pain, or death. In John 14:3 Jesus states, “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”

Each of us is missing something in our life. God gives us this ‘void’ to help us to think, search, and find what we are missing. This ‘void is God-shaped’ which means only being able to be filled by Jesus Christ. Other things will never satisfy this part of yourself because what you need is something specially made by him for you, to complete you and make you whole. He wants a relationship with you. No one can make you whole but Jesus Christ. No other person, place, or thing (ie… money, power, any religious tradition, etc.) will ever get you there and make you whole. And we all need him alone plus nothing else. For he is sufficient. You, as a Jew or Gentile, have the truth now. So what are you going to do about it? I urge you earnestly to read God’s Word as well so we can learn and grow about him, our Savior. Because we don’t know when his return will be, Matthew 24:44 Jesus states, “Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.” Are you prepared to meet him? He is giving us time.

Whether you are a Jew or a Gentile, Jesus is coming back one day!

Who is Jesus Christ?

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Jesus Christ is the one, appointed from God the Father, who came to this earth to save all the people from their sins. This was prophesied long ago by the prophets in the bible’s old testament, of one who would be coming into this world to suffer and die for us, and to be resurrected three days later. Isaiah 7:14 states, ‘Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.’ Jesus came into the world. Luke 9:56 tells us, “For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” Jesus Christ came for us because without him people would not be saved/born again and would spend eternity in hell without him because of the broken relationship created between man and God the Father, because of Adam and Eve. More than seven hundred years before Jesus was born, Isaiah 53 was written, and this book prophesied about Jesus and his suffering. He came to die and then rise again to defeat death and sin for each one of us. He desires to give each one of us a brand new life here on earth and to spend eternity with him after our death. A life for all eternity being with God!

God the Father sent his son Jesus Christ, God incarnate (embodied in flesh in human form), to come into the world for us. God has given us his holy and perfect Word (the Bible) because of his great love for us and so we would have his direction plan for our lives in this gravely fallen world. John 1:1 says, ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’ John 1:4 states, ‘In him was life; and the life was the light of men.’ God and his word are inseparable. The bible is powerful and full of truth!

Jesus’s resurrection is proof that Christ is who he said he was… the Son of God. Who else could die and rise again for us? In John 2:19 Jesus says, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” Jesus was speaking of his death and resurrection three days later. The resurrection tells us that we too, can have that hope that we will rise again after our death and be with him if we are born again/saved believers. In John 3:3 Jesus states, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Our souls are immortal, our bodies are not. 1 Cor. 15:22 says, ‘For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.’ 1 Cor. 15:44 in part states, ‘…it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.’ The Apostles being eyewitnesses, hid after Christ’s death, fearing for their lives. But after Jesus’s resurrection, he appears to them, and they boldly start proclaiming God’s Word. In Luke 24:39 Jesus states, “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.” After Christ’s resurrection and his appearance to Paul on the road to Damascus, Paul has a conversion experience and does a total 180 degree turn around. Instead of killing Christians as he had been doing (he was then called Saul of Tarsus before Jesus got ahold of him and Jesus renames him Paul), he starts defending the very Gospel of Jesus Christ. The bible tells us of Jesus’s resurrection and his appearance to many after he is resurrected. He shows himself to Mary Magdalene, various other women, Peter, the Apostles (once without Thomas and later to them all), to over five hundred believers at once, James, and Paul (Saul of Tarsus).

Jesus Christ is the bridge between God and man given to all people from God the Father. What bridge? Listen, without him alone we as man have no opportunity to be connected to God again in a restored relationship. Sin in the world cut that off to us and sin must be atoned for. Jesus gives us this amazing and free gift, which is himself, so we can be reconnected in a real relationship with God. He gives us this free gift, that is alone your gift from him to you, absolutely free for the taking if you will believe all that he’s said he’s done for you. His birth, death, and resurrection all done for you.

Can you believe it, that Jesus gives us this gift of himself?! I am still amazed by all of this just as I was at the beginning of when I became a born again believer myself. Even after forty-five years of walking with him, it’s truly still as fresh and new as it was when I first believed. We can be truly thankful for him and his word. What happiness and what joy, knowing he did this for us. Since Jesus did this for you why don’t you come just as you are right now and believe/trust in what he did for you? Dying on the cross and rising again three days later, don’t you desire fullheartedly to repent (turn from) of all your sins, asking him to give you a brand new life and tell him how you feel?

It says in John 14:6 ‘Jesus saith unto him,’ “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

In John 15:13 Jesus tells us, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

Jesus Christ is the new covenant where all people are given the opportunity to receive him. The new covenant was originally given to only Israel but after Christ’s death and resurrection God by his grace alone allows Gentiles (anyone not a Jew) to be able to have the new covenant as well. His sacrifice on the cross and his resurrection given for every single person’s sins in this world: past, present, and future, has replaced the old covenant. The old covenant was a sacrifial system that required strict obedience to the Mosaic Law, but only temporaily removed sins and the people continually broke it. Thus the continual blood sacrifices of animals had to be made. There could be no coming into God’s presence themselves in that time unless you were the high priest for the Jewish people or one that God chose to speak to and that we read about in the Bible like Adam and Eve, Noah, Moses, Abraham, etc. By his coming into the world, and by his death and resurrection, he provides grace for those who desire and will come to Christ. And he provides the purification and cleansing for their sins. Thus this new covenant spoken of in the old testament by different prophets tells us there will be true believers from the Gentiles along with some Jewish people now who will receive this new covenant, but at a future unknown time from now, Israel then will have the opportunity at Jesus’s coming in the future to receive him if they haven’t. But we who are living now need him before this life is done folks! Don’t wait for no one knows what tomorrow will bring. …Sins turned as white as snow from his forgiveness, and cleansed from guilt to have freedom and true life in Christ. And knowledge of an everlasting life with him? Nothing is better!

Whether you are a Jew or a Gentile, Jesus is coming back one day!