Look To Jesus - 1 John 5:11-14

This is Namma for Christ with the seventeenth inspirational blog dated Friday, December 21st, 2012.  The title of this message is, "Look To Jesus - 1 John 5:11-14". The scripture comes from 1st John 5: 11-14  and from 2nd Corinthians 5: 19-21:

1 John 5:11-14

New International Version (NIV)

¹¹ And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. ¹² Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

¹³ I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. ¹⁴ This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

2 Corinthians 5:19-21

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¹⁹ that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. ²¹ God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

JESUS LOVES YOU.
Jesus loves you so much that He died for you (and rose again) to conquer sin and death for all who believe in Him. He gave His life for you...He gave His life as a ransom for many as Mark 10:45 reads: 

Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” Jesus, who had no sin...became sin for us:

2nd Corinthians 5:21 states:

²¹ God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Romans 3: 23-25 (as written below) declares that our righteousness comes from Jesus' shed blood - because "we, as humans" have ALL sinned and fallen short of the glory of God... and all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of His blood.

Romans 3: 21- 26 :

New International Version (NIV)

Righteousness Through Faith

²¹ But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. ²² This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ and all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. ²⁵ God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of His blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— ²⁶ He did it to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the One who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

THIS IS "TRUE" LOVE:

JOHN 3:16 (KJV) states: 

 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

We love God...but, He Loved US FIRST as 1st John 4:19 reads: 

1 John 4:19

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁹ We love Him, because He first loved us.

WE MUST LOOK TO JESUS...BECAUSE HE LOVES US...AND HE WANTS WHAT IS BEST FOR US IN OUR LIVES!  (JOHN 10:10 DECLARES- "...I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.")

HE WANTS US TO YIELD "OUR WAY AND OUR WILL" TO "HIS WAY AND HIS WILL" IN OUR LIVES. LET US LIVE FOR JESUS! LET US LET OUR LIGHTS SHINE FOR JESUS AND USE WHATEVER GIFTS, TALENTS AND ABILITIES WE HAVE TO GLORIFY JESUS IN OUR LIVES! LET US LIVE TO PLEASE JESUS...LET US REPRESENT HIM AND BE "HIS AMBASSADORS"!

2ND CORINTHIANS 5:20 STATES:

²We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us.

Let us pray and ask the Lord that He guide and direct us everyday!
Let us seek Jesus that we may live to serve Him and live for His purpose and His will in our lives!

Whatever our need, problem or challenge is...let us give it to Jesus... He is able to do anything, but fail!

LET US LOOK TO JESUS AND LIVE FOR JESUS!

Please enjoy the below song/video (with lyrics) of  "I Look to You" by the late Whitney Houston.


(I do not own the rights to this song.)


BE BLESSED!