From separate lives we become one with the Lord. When we heard our Lord's call we merge our path with his. We come to him out of many reasons, each unique to ourselves. How can one man satisfy so many people with his words and by his actions? What Jesus Christ has for us we wanted. What he did for us we needed. We needed a way out of our current condition. We needed hope for our lives. In him we found the answers that we were looking for and the healing for our hurting soul.
The Lord said to us:
Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied."
John 4:14 "but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become to him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
John 11:25,26 Jesus said to her, " I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die...."
Jesus Christ lifted our spirits up and gave us eternal hope that there is more to our life than suffering and death. Each of us with a different story to tell, can agree that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6). Jesus drew us to him and now we are better than we were before. We can say with confidence, what is written in Psalms 119:105 "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."
Our road in life though separate is leading us to come together someday so to stand together in unison in praising the Lord. Revelation 7:9,10,17 "After this l looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10and crying out with a loud voice, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!" 17For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
Jesus Christ connects us to him as his large congregation upon this Earth. Something inside of us wanted to be close to him and to his people. We were looking for a new home, and in him, we found that home that we were looking for. It is built upon his love and his words and promises. We were on separate paths but now we reside within his church, our new home. A new home filled with our brothers and sisters who love the Lord as much as we do. We begun on different roads in life but now we stand together on the same path to Jesus.
(ESV)
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