Who Told You about Jesus?

Greetings readers,

I know that I have taken a hiatus from blogging. Now, I have a renewed zeal to enter my thoughts on life and how God impacts that life. My motivation was caused by the re-design of our website. Now, on the website, there's a link to this blog. Now I have to keep it up to date. Yet that isn't my motivation. My motivation is you, who is reading my blog. Whether you're a first time reader, or someone who has read it before, I want to bring the reality of Jesus and His impact upon your life.

So I have a question for you. "Who told you about Jesus?" In my life, it was my parents. You see I am a "lifer Lutheran Christian." I was baptized at one month old, and I've been a Christian ever since. My life, was by no means, "Perfect." It wasn't and still isn't. But it was perfected by God the Father, through the total person and God, the Son of God, Jesus Christ. I don't ever recall a time that I was outside the grasp of Christ or His Church. Some of you who are reading this, didn't start your Christian life the way I did. You became a believer by God through someone later in your life. Some of you who are reading this, haven't yet come to faith. If so, I pray that my witness to you will propel you into a desire for more of God through me.

God chose, and continues to choose people in order to bring the reality of Jesus to other people. God chose prophets, historians, and apostles to bear witness to the reality of God. God chose ordinary people, who are believers, to share God's great and powerful love with those who did not know Him. It is the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, who empowers us to tell the story of Jesus to others.

So what does God want believers, like myself, to say? One of the great examples of what do we say is from Isaiah 40:1-2. God says, "'Comfort, comfort My people' says Your God. Speaking tenderly to Jerusalem, and announce to her that her time of servitude is over, her iniquity has been pardoned, and she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. " (Christian Standard Bible translation)

God tells us through the prophet Isaiah, that we who are His people, are to be comforted and at peace. God has saved us from our sins, and sinfulness. We know this to be true because of Jesus. The reality of Jesus and what He did, is the pardon for our sins. Through Jesus, our lives are smoothed out. The peaks and valleys of daily living were lowered and raised by Jesus. The bumpy roads of life were smoothed out. I know what you're thinking. You still struggle with highs and lows, your life isn't any where close to being smooth. Yet, as one who knows the reality of Jesus, I know that my life is so much smoother and level with Jesus in my life. I know that He forgave me of my sins and gave me a focus on His new life. I can't imagine living my life without Jesus. I can't imagine what it would have been like if I didn't know Jesus. God is using me to bring the reality of Jesus to you. God is using me to tell you about Jesus and what He did for you and me.

There is much more to tell. I pray that I will be consistent in bringing to you the reality of Jesus. And the truth will set you free.