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Reading through the first book of Matthew shows me the main purpose of Christ to save me, you, us, from our sin.


As in bringing us out of a bad place, sin is a bad place, a bad state. if it wasn't, Jesus wouldn't have had to die.


Christ is this sweet master who wouldn't want us to perish in what we obviously seem to be enjoying. He chose to perish in our place to save us from the masquerading slavery of sin. And that didn't even end there. Even after His death, He chose to let His name "Emmanuel" abide forever with us.


So He wouldn't be the God that just saves but that one who also stays.

How great the love of Christ?


You know it's really easy to affirm and believe that God, Christ, loves me and has a wonderful plan for our lives but to think that He also abides with us for ever can be somewhat challenging to believe.


But God's words says that He does. In the bad days, Good days, frustrating moments, even in the times when everything that happens seems like you have offended God big time. He stay just near. Always near.


And the best part of my christian journey so far is actually that hard sigh Ii give whenever i'm in a bad place and the quiet whisper of a word of prayer to Jesusus.


"Hmm..God, i know you're here. Aaargh!!! Please help me!"


Sometimes speaking the truth to my soul seem to be the only prayer i need."Sarah, God is here. He is near."


And that makes me believe and conclude that Jesus' death on the cross wasn't just to save the whole world from sin in one day, but daily and forever. He died and stayed so even the redeemed wouldn't go back into the cage of sin by freewill.


We have a great God, people of God. Marvellous are His ways. And He so lovingly offers us this close relationsjip with Him if we'll let Him.


And all we have to do is believe in our heart and confess it our mouths that He is our God. Jesus is waiting for you.




God love you and offers you a wonderful plan for your life. Though He paid the penalty for or sins. He now offers us complete forgiveness and a close relationship with him. Just knowing what Jesus has done for us and what He is offering us is not enough To have a relationship with God, we need to welcome Him into our lives.


In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

John 1:1‭-‬4 KJV



These verses implies so much that Jesus, the word has been with God from the beginning and by him were all creations formed. Jesus dwelt among us though he was made for heaven.

He formed the earth and all that is in it and even you, yet shed His blood to save you, us.

How great the love of Christ?


Because of Jesus;


You are loved

John 15:9 testifies that Jesus loves with the love of the father. Of course, who would die for who He doesn't love. 

Because of jesus, I don't have to be bothered if I'm forsaken by friend, my father or mother knowing I have a father and a friend Jesus Christ, who loves me.


Because of Jesus,


You are safe. 

In John 17:15, we see Jesus Christ praying that God keeps us safe from evil and death. We are safe in His arms when we are HIs. The Good Shepherd never loses sight of His sheep. 


Because of Jesus, 

You have hope. 

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:16‭-‬18 KJV


In Christ our present affliction is an assurance of greater glory. 


Because of Jesus, 

You are made whole


We are made complete in Jesus Christ. I usually compare my life without Jesus and now with Jesus and all i get is: Before, I was lost, without focus, unforgiving and bitter, paranoid, depressed and shaken, Christ brought the wholeness and with boldness and i can say that there is no life without Christ. 

He is the life in us.


And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

Colossians 2:10 KJV


Because of Jesus

You are free from condemnation. 


There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Romans 8:1 KJV


Because of Christ we are free from condemnation brought by our sins and we can become sons and daughters of God.


Because of Jesus, 


You can find Joy in your trial


 James 1:2 says;

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. 


In Christ we Joy in trials and temptations because we know that we are unshaken, we draw strength from the throne of God and we can overcome.


Because of Jesus,

You are strong 


that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

Ephesians 3:16 KJV


Because of jesus we are strengthened by the spirit of God. We are strong. 


Because of Jesus Christ, 


You are never alone


"And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world."

Matthew 28:10b


He said it. He is with us, God is with us even unto the end of the world.

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