Happy Easter
As I sit here this morning I think about this day, this holiday and all that it is. The stone was rolled away and He has risen! Our Lord is alive not dead. AMEN!
I am excited that I serve a God who is alive. Not only is He alive He is also active in our lives, He is active in my life. My prayer is that we all allow Him to be active in our lives.
As I read stories like the one above I try to place myself in it. If I were an Israelite bitten by a snake I would do everything in my power to see the snake on that staff. If a friend or someone nearby me was bit and they were unable or refused to look for the snake on the staff I would do anything in my power to save them! For I would have the knowledge of what heals and saves.
Now we read in John 3:14-15, “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.”
My wife and I realize that we have been given an incredible gift! Eternal Life! Through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we have this incredible gift: Life! Without Christ, we are dead. We look around where God has placed us to minister, and we see people dying all around us, like the Israelites dying in the wilderness. The people around us do not need to see a snake on a staff, but they do need to see Jesus. We pray that we are worthy of this calling God has given to us. We also challenge you in your lives to show Jesus to those who need to see. For every Christian is called to the mission field. For you, that may not be in a foreign country. Your mission field may be to the person next door, or to the coworker that you see is hurting, or even the person in the grocery line in front of you! Wherever you are is your mission field. It is where God has placed you to minister!
I am excited that I serve a God who is alive. Not only is He alive He is also active in our lives, He is active in my life. My prayer is that we all allow Him to be active in our lives.
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During my Bible reading I (Jeremy) came across a familiar story that I thought I’d share with you. It is a story from the Israelites’ wanderings in the wilderness. Like many times before, the Israelites were again complaining before God and Moses. God, in His justice, sends poisonous snakes to the Israelites wandering in the desert. It happened that anyone who was bitten by one of these snakes would die. Now the Israelites, realizing their error, came to Moses crying out for him to pray for them. They wanted Moses to ask God to take the snakes away. So Moses prayed. God told him to put a bronze snake up on a staff. Anyone who was bitten could look at the snake on the staff and live. This story is found in Numbers 21.
As I read stories like the one above I try to place myself in it. If I were an Israelite bitten by a snake I would do everything in my power to see the snake on that staff. If a friend or someone nearby me was bit and they were unable or refused to look for the snake on the staff I would do anything in my power to save them! For I would have the knowledge of what heals and saves.
Now we read in John 3:14-15, “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.”
My wife and I realize that we have been given an incredible gift! Eternal Life! Through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we have this incredible gift: Life! Without Christ, we are dead. We look around where God has placed us to minister, and we see people dying all around us, like the Israelites dying in the wilderness. The people around us do not need to see a snake on a staff, but they do need to see Jesus. We pray that we are worthy of this calling God has given to us. We also challenge you in your lives to show Jesus to those who need to see. For every Christian is called to the mission field. For you, that may not be in a foreign country. Your mission field may be to the person next door, or to the coworker that you see is hurting, or even the person in the grocery line in front of you! Wherever you are is your mission field. It is where God has placed you to minister!
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