Think about this and don’t gloss over the words when reading them—you are undeservingly loved by God. What does that mean? Not only can you not earn God’s love, but you shouldn’t even receive God’s love because of your sinful nature. God hates sin, and yet we sin on a daily basis; the saved and unsaved alike. But with all this going on, God still loves us and desires to spend time with us here on earth and eternity with us in heaven (see the Life Changing Prayer on the side).

How do I know God is crazy about each and every one of us? Let’s look at the stuff we, as humans, know. There is no such thing as “love at first sight” with people. There may be physical attraction, but true love doesn’t begin to DEVELOP until after we begin to know someone. True love involves conversation, interaction, and the growth of trust between individuals. In the obtainment of friendships, we have the same type of advancement—conversation, interaction, and trust. Human love between individuals only comes after some sort of stepwise growth (the only exception being the love between a parent and a child, but this follows God’s example).

God, on the other hand, immediately loves us; independent of anything we have done to deserve His adoration. Romans 5:8 states, “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” No conversation, no interaction, no trust needed for His love. He wants to hear from you, He wants to talk with you, and He wants to spend eternity with you without any qualifying steps for you to complete. He only asks that you allow Christ into your heart (afore mentioned prayer) so that you can begin to develop a relationship with Him and be with Him in heaven.

Here is the mind blower…He still loves you even when you are living in a sinful manner. Whether you are saved or not, whether you give praise or cursing to His ear, whether you live by His commands or your own selfish desires, God still loves you and wishes to know you through the saving grace of Jesus Christ. Don’t believe me, look back up at Romans 5:8—God gave up a part of His perfect being to be ridiculed, humiliated, beaten mercilessly, and eventually murdered all so that you would spend an eternity with him. And that was before you were born. Still think this is improbable. Here is one last mental cruncher…If God didn’t want to know you, you would never have existed to read this. But because of who you are as an individual (created by Him, Psalms 139:13, 14), God wants you to know Him and develop a relationship with him. And all before you even knew about Him. Now that is undeserving love.

3 Basic Life-Changing Truths

You want to know 3 basic truths that will completely change the way you live? Check out the tenth chapter of Luke. Take a moment to read it, I’ll wait for you.

Did you see them? No? I’ll point them out real quick. In verse 20, Jesus tells the disciples He sent out to, “not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but to rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” In other words, don’t rejoice in your ministry, but rather rejoice in the fact that you are saved and destined for heaven. Our joy should be based upon the saving grace of Jesus Christ, not on what we can do as an individual.

So now you’re saved and have a lot of joy, what’s point 2? How do we inherit eternal life? The answer is found in verses 27 and 28. “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength, and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” Jesus stated, “Do this and you will live.” This is also found as the greatest commandments in Matthew 22:37-39; the greatest in verses 37 and 38, and the second greatest in 39. When you love God with all that is you (spiritual, eternal, physical, and mental/emotional, respectfully), God returns that love back to you 10-fold, 1000-fold, 10,000-fold, etc. You then have so much of God’s love bubbling and pouring out of you, that loving your enemies, your family, your friends, and those in need becomes a little easier.

Our third, and final, basic truth to a life-changing outcome is found in verses 40-42. We find Martha busy trying to prepare for Jesus; I mean, He’s the Guy, the Dude, the King—He deserves the best. And Lazy Mary is sitting back doing nothing! Or is she? When Martha approaches Jesus about her concerns, Jesus tells her (and US) that Mary has chosen to do that which is more important, spending time with Him. If we allow the” busyiness” of our lives to overshadow and override our relationship with God, then we will begin to lose out on the previous 2 truths that we just studied. And, we will fail to benefit from those gifts of joy and love that God intends for us to have on a daily basis.

Now that you know what the 3 basic truths are, look at the order of how they were documented. God didn’t have Luke put these principles down in a haphazardly fashion. They are written in a specific order: joy of salvation, love for God/others, and spending time with God. Spend time in prayer asking the Holy Spirit to show you how the order and implementation of these truths can greatly change the way you lead your life.

Well, our grandsons are back in town. Everything is rocking and shaking again.
Just yesterday, our youngest grandson found out that another little boy that he had some problems with last year was not going to be in his classroom at school this year. When his mother told him, he said, “Praise the Lord.” He is learning to give thanks in ALL things.

Pastor will be sharing with us Sunday from Exodus 17:11. Moses held up his arms during a battle with the Amalekites. As long as his arms were up, the Israelites were winning, however when he lowered this arms, the Amalekites would began to win.

Are you handing your family’s arms up in prayer? Are you encouraging someone today?

Come join us at Eastpoint to learn more from God’s Word.

This has been quite an interesting few weeks. Pastor has started a series named “Twisted”.
Wow, have our lives seem a little twisted. My job is being outsourced after 26 years of employment to the same company. Our daughter is recently divorced. Our grandsons are off to Texas for a month.
Life can seem to get a little twisted sometimes, can’t it?
Pastor relayed to us that Satan wants to twist our thoughts and actions to be in alignment with evil in a tricky way. God wants to align our life according the His principles. Giving freedom in Him and life with Him ever after.
Eastpoint is wonderful place to learn about God’s word and have fellwowship with other people just like you.

What a wonderful Block Party we had last weekend! 7 souls found Christ Saturday and Sunday.

Start planning to come and hear Bethany Hartman, missionary to the Arabian Peninsula next Sunday. She is special lady to go to place God has called her.

Wednesday nights have been great! Pastor’s topic for the month of July is “Keep the fire on the altar.”

This Sunday morning’s sermon is “Our Spiritual Independence Day”. Galatians 5:1 says “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”

See you at Eastpoint!

Pastor is speaking Wednesday evenings on “Are you Thirsty” What are you thirsty for?

I am always thirsty for a crushed ice coke at Sonic. I crave them. Am I as thirsty for God’s word as I am for a crushed ice coke? Do I crave to hear from God and do what He has asked me to do? Something to work on.

Come join us on Wednesday night. We have a great time of praise and worship, then hear a very timely word for Pastor Claude and close with group time of prayer.

Ever since Pastor started his “When the fasten the seat belt sign comes on” series,
we have had events where I was thankful that we had the seatbelt of prayer on.

1 Kings 19:12 “After the earthquake, came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.” Well, I have been through the fire this week and I am ready to hear a whisper from God for direction.

Come and be ready along with me to hear from the Word of God.