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Within the past few days, I have learned of so many families that have lost loved ones due to car accidents, premature death, or other various causes. It seems as if we are in a season of people going on from this life; MJ, Farah, and even Billy Mays, and there are still others, Ed McMahon and so many more. As I was sitting on the patio this morning, I was reflecting on all of these changes that the living are going through, and couldn’t help but to think of our own loss of our daughter, Amy, and her battle with cancer. I reflected upon that not from a mourning stance, but rather thinking man, I know in part of what these folks are about to walk through, and my heart was just broken for all of them. I thought about MJ’s daughter and her statement, not about the Pop Star, but about “Daddy,” and thought yeah, it doesn’t matter about what or who they were to ‘us,’ but rather to their family, they were just plain mom or dad, daughter or son. Oh, the trials of life.
It was then that I thought of the promise that we have held onto as a family regarding Amy; the promise that speaks of us seeing her again. It is the promise that is spoken about in Scripture that says in John 21:31, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” This verse in and of itself is phenomenal to me because it speaks of the promise, that promise of reconnection. Not in some afterlife, or reincarnation, or through Buddha or Mohamed or some other false god, but through the one and only true and living God and His Son, Jesus.
I wonder, who have you lost? What have you lost? I know that you and I can agree on one thing. We should live life to the fullest; however, the part that we may disagree on is how to live our life. One thing that I know is that I have lived life apart from Christ, and I have lived my life with Christ, and WITH is so much more fulfilling than boats, girls and beer. The reality of it is that when I truly cried out and said, “I’m done!,” He was there and picked me up and took me to a place of truly living LIFE to the fullest! I look back now and see that what I thought was truly living was nothing like living is now!
Friend, I wonder, have you made that decision to truly live your life to the fullest? I wonder, are you really at that point of seeing and knowing the fullness of what He can offer you? Have you been broken only to wonder where or what to do? Well, the answer is free, and is in this writing right before you. It is Jesus! It is Him and only Him that will fill you and fix you in accordance to what He promises you. Here is what He promises today; two things out of John 10:10. The first is that there is a thief and he comes for this purpose – to steal, to kill, and to destroy. Yet here is what Jesus promises….that He (Jesus) comes that we might have life AND have it abundantly. So yes, let’s live life to the fullest. Just live it through Jesus!
Because the bottom line is this; we can live with Him or without Him, but in the end when death comes, the decision and the opportunity that was given to you even now, if not accepted, will be made permanent….when death comes. The wildest thing about all of this is of all the deaths that I thought about this morning, with the exception of Farah’s, were fast and sudden, unplanned, unexpected, and unknown to the person – it just happened. How do you plan for that? How do you say, “Well, I’ll catch up with you later Jesus! I want to live right now.” Yet, living through Him is life and life more abundantly.
If you haven’t tried Jesus, try Him today. If you’ve fallen away, come back. His everlasting arms are there for you today, all that He asks is that you come and answer the knock that is at the door. Won’t you?
Just pray this prayer right now, right this instant. Don’t wait for tomorrow, because we know that we’re not promised tomorrow….just pray…”Dear Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, please forgive my sins and wipe them away as far as the East is from the West. Accept me into your Kingdom when I die. Holy Spirit, please come and fill me with your Spirit. Help me to live the Christian life. Help me to read my Bible everyday, pray to God like I’m talking to my best friend, and find a Bible based, Jesus preaching church. Thank you for forgiving my sins and accepting me into your Kingdom when I die.”
That’s it! That’s all there is to it. Now, if you prayed that prayer for the first time, or if you have just rededicated your life to Christ, I want to know about it. If you don’t have a Bible, then I want to know that as well. I want to send you a book that I wrote entitled, “The Most Important Decision.” It talks about the next steps to take after accepting Jesus. Please do this today, and either respond back to this blog or write me today. Kevin Hull Ministries, PO BOX 1791, Leander, TX. 78646 or call me at 1-877-528-0133.
Hey, we love you, bless you, and I look forward to hearing from you.
Blessings,
PKH
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