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t may be that you have logged on to my site realizing you have deep pain or emotional trauma in your life that you want healed. You may be investigating a relationship with Jesus because you’ve just read
Scars Don’t Hurt
and you long for the peace that I found. Please…. keep reading.
If you’ve landed here, it’s obvious you’ve come searching for meaning and peace in your life – all of us have been on that journey. God created you so he may know you personally, to have a living relationship with you. That feeling of emptiness inside, the loneliness that we sometimes fill with casual sex, drugs, alcohol, careers or material possessions, is really the longing to know and relate to God.
Most people live their entire lives without ever knowing ‘WHY?’ They exist year after year with no idea of why they live or God’s purpose for their lives. The most basic question a person can ask is, “What is the meaning of my life?” Everyone wants to be happy. People try many ways but true contentment comes from understanding the purpose for living.
God loves us because He created us. He created us to enjoy a personal relationship with Him, and to manage the rest of His creation. The problem is that we have a natural desire to be the boss of our lives and to ignore God’s principles for living. This thwarts God’s purpose for our lives, negates the benefits of relationship with Him and causes us to fill our lives with counterfeits. This natural tendency to ignore God and rule our own lives, the Bible calls sin. God says, ‘the wages (or end results) of sin is death, ’eternal separation from Him’.
When our relationship with God is broken because of sin, it causes problems in every area of our lives – marriage, career, relationships, finances etc. Even when we know that our deepest need is God; we often try wrong ways of getting to know Him. We try to be good in ourselves or earn our way into God’s good graces by doing good deeds for others or following a prescribed set of rituals (otherwise known as religion). The problem is that God is perfect and we can never be good enough to be perfect.
What’s the solution?
There is only one way to establish that relationship with God and have our sins forgiven: Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." God himself came to earth as a human being to bring us back to Himself. If any other way would have worked, Jesus Christ would not have had to come. The WAY is a person. Jesus came and lived a perfect life, then laid down His life to pay the penalty for our sin. God took the initiative to restore our broken relationship with Him by sending Jesus to come and die for your sins and mine.