Speaker: Courtesy LHM

“Again, Jesus spoke to them saying, I am the Light of the world. Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.'” Would you like to have power like that? You do. It’s found in God’s Word. It’s found in Jesus.

Through us He can show the world the love that drove Him to suffer and die on the cross—yes, and to rise again, and share that everlasting life with us who trust Him. God’s power shines best through the weak.

God will not refuse us or turn us away. He calls us back because He loves us—because He wants us back as His beloved children, forgiven and made clean by Jesus our Savior.

Surrounded by bad news, even frightening news, we will not be afraid. We know the good news—and the news gets better: Jesus is coming back! Our Lord tells us what to do when we hear bad news:

We cannot deny human giftedness, but we also cannot ignore human need. God created us to be in relationship with Him. We are dependent on God. Like a newborn baby needs a loving mother and father, we need God. And our ultimate problem is that we’ve been confined in this lie that we don’t.

It can be. If we take personal delight as we watch someone else suffer, that’s pretty awful, and I can’t see Jesus being happy with that. If we hold on to old grudges year after year—even justified ones!—and refuse to even think about letting them go under any circumstances, it’s a pretty safe bet we’re doing wrong.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. What happens when your non-Christian friends find out that you follow Jesus? Do they look confused? Do they ever ask you how you can believe that stuff?

It was a serious question. I had to come up with an answer then and there. And there was no answer, at least none that would keep me out of trouble. Because the true answer was always the same: “Because I’m a sinner. Because I wanted to. Because sometimes I do bad things, and this was one of them.”

We are justified by God’s grace through faith. We are clothed in Jesus’ righteousness; His perfect life covers our sinful lives. “O LORD, who shall sojourn in Your tent?” We will dwell with God and for all eternity we will praise Him for doing the impossible: