We Are Not Alone
“This is how God showed us His love: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.” 1 John 4:9
With Christmas behind us, let’s remember that the birth of Christ assures us that God stands before us as we move into a new year! The birth of Christ is our hope that we are not alone as we walk by faith in 2025. Jesus is the only one who can help us with whatever we face in the days ahead!
Satan is the instigator of the evil around us. He’s the personification of it. Even those who doubt or deny God cannot deny there is an obvious force of evil present in our world. Jesus said Satan is the “father of all lies”, a “thief” and “murderer”. He seeks to destroy life — every precious aspect of it.
Many things can negatively impact our spiritual and mental condition to some degree: addiction to videos, food, alcohol or drugs. Damaging emotions such as bitterness or envy, and emotional or physical weariness can take us down into a dark pit. I know without a doubt that Satan despises freedom and godliness! Just like Herod at the birth of Christ, Satan also seeks to destroy the opportunity of the Deliverer or the possibility of deliverance.
Jesus is still the only answer to the issues facing our lives on a daily basis! We rightly celebrate the life of Jesus, because He’s the only way to overcome evil and the evil one. He alone can direct our steps and help us build secure walls of protection.
God’s Word should be our hedge of security and God wants His Word to be written in our hearts, not just carried in our hands. He wants His Word to carry us at times and lead us daily, and as Paul said, “write letters on the hearts of other lives” as a result of our consistent Christian testimony.
Jesus came as God with us to overcome the evil one, and He came to be God for us so we can be delivered from evil’s despicable and damaging influence.
Jesus is the hope in our stories! He alone can take this broken and bruised world and bring the lasting healing it’s searching for. Jesus is the light that pierces the darkness, He’s the strength beyond ourselves, He’s the giver of grace for every wound that hurts us, and He’s the joy and peace in the midst of our most challenging circumstances!
In the above verse, I love that John used the word “showed” because it literally mean that God made His love visible. And this implies that God’s love is always present with us in this wacky world, but it’s also evident in a new and unmistakable way – through Jesus Christ! The revelation of God’s love is not merely a theological concept or a historical event, but it’s a personal experience in the lives of God’s people!
May you have a Christ-healing, Christ-honoring New Year!
Pastor Dave
With Christmas behind us, let’s remember that the birth of Christ assures us that God stands before us as we move into a new year! The birth of Christ is our hope that we are not alone as we walk by faith in 2025. Jesus is the only one who can help us with whatever we face in the days ahead!
Satan is the instigator of the evil around us. He’s the personification of it. Even those who doubt or deny God cannot deny there is an obvious force of evil present in our world. Jesus said Satan is the “father of all lies”, a “thief” and “murderer”. He seeks to destroy life — every precious aspect of it.
Many things can negatively impact our spiritual and mental condition to some degree: addiction to videos, food, alcohol or drugs. Damaging emotions such as bitterness or envy, and emotional or physical weariness can take us down into a dark pit. I know without a doubt that Satan despises freedom and godliness! Just like Herod at the birth of Christ, Satan also seeks to destroy the opportunity of the Deliverer or the possibility of deliverance.
Jesus is still the only answer to the issues facing our lives on a daily basis! We rightly celebrate the life of Jesus, because He’s the only way to overcome evil and the evil one. He alone can direct our steps and help us build secure walls of protection.
God’s Word should be our hedge of security and God wants His Word to be written in our hearts, not just carried in our hands. He wants His Word to carry us at times and lead us daily, and as Paul said, “write letters on the hearts of other lives” as a result of our consistent Christian testimony.
Jesus came as God with us to overcome the evil one, and He came to be God for us so we can be delivered from evil’s despicable and damaging influence.
Jesus is the hope in our stories! He alone can take this broken and bruised world and bring the lasting healing it’s searching for. Jesus is the light that pierces the darkness, He’s the strength beyond ourselves, He’s the giver of grace for every wound that hurts us, and He’s the joy and peace in the midst of our most challenging circumstances!
In the above verse, I love that John used the word “showed” because it literally mean that God made His love visible. And this implies that God’s love is always present with us in this wacky world, but it’s also evident in a new and unmistakable way – through Jesus Christ! The revelation of God’s love is not merely a theological concept or a historical event, but it’s a personal experience in the lives of God’s people!
May you have a Christ-healing, Christ-honoring New Year!
Pastor Dave
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