The Greatest Holy Night

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Truth Heals And Hurts

Nothing hurts and nothing heals like the truth. Facing the truth is sometimes like getting a shot from the doctor. Facing the truth sometimes brings a sting, but eventually, healing will come and we will feel better. The truth heals us and restores us when we place our life in the hands of God. Without placing our life in Christ's love and grace, the truth can only hurt us and there are even times when the truth can maim and traumatize us. However, God has organized things in such a way as to bless us and heal us when we are with Him and when we rejoice in knowing the truth. The truth heals and restores our soul because when we live and immerse ourselves in the truth, eventually the truth will lead us to God. We are healed and restored by the truth because the truth always leads us to a place where we find comfort and love in His presence. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is this, God loves us beyond our ability to fully comprehend. All the hurt, trauma, and tragedy of this life can be washed away in the truth of God's love and grace if we are willing to be His child. This washing away of our darkness is how the truth heals and restores us. After we are washed clean by Christ's love, we find ourselves being wrapped up in His arms. In the washing away of our lies and deceptions, we begin to see clearly our Savior who stands by us every second of our life. We also see He wants us to join Him in Heaven after our mission on earth has been completed.

Truth Heals And Hurts

Nothing hurts and nothing heals like the truth. Facing the truth is sometimes like getting a shot from the doctor. Facing the truth sometimes brings a sting, but eventually, healing will come and we will feel better. The truth heals us and restores us when we place our life in the hands of God. Without placing our life in Christ's love and grace, the truth can only hurt us and there are even times when the truth can maim and traumatize us. However, God has organized things in such a way as to bless us and heal us when we are with Him and when we rejoice in knowing the truth. The truth heals and restores our soul because when we live and immerse ourselves in the truth, eventually the truth will lead us to God. We are healed and restored by the truth because the truth always leads us to a place where we find comfort and love in His presence. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is this, God loves us beyond our ability to fully comprehend. All the hurt, trauma, and tragedy of this life can be washed away in the truth of God's love and grace if we are willing to be His child. This washing away of our darkness is how the truth heals and restores us. After we are washed clean by Christ's love, we find ourselves being wrapped up in His arms. In the washing away of our lies and deceptions, we begin to see clearly our Savior who stands by us every second of our life. We also see He wants us to join Him in Heaven after our mission on earth has been completed.

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Courage

Matthew 14:25-26---And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit, and they cried out for fear.

Sometimes the supernatural nature of God brings fear to the heart of mere mortals like us. If you saw a human being walking on the water of a lake at night, you could be gripped with fear. In everyday life, we do not encounter ghosts or a walking Jesus on the lake. However, we do encounter many frightening circumstances in doing and being all God wants us to do and be. Perhaps in your home, work, or school life, you know you need to bring the knowledge of Christ to someone, but you are afraid to act. Perhaps in your relationships with friends, you need to take a stand on a moral issue, but you are afraid to speak the Lord's truth. In these situations and at many other times, you need to take courage and not be afraid.

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Endless Hope

When you have Christ in the center of your heart, you always have another day. Even on the last day of your life, there is still one more day ahead of you. In the pain of losing someone to the Lord, you know the person called home to be with Him has another day without end. You have in Christ such endless hope you never want to quit, to retire, or to lay down the work of His call upon your life. You never want to quit, retire, or lay down His work because there is always another day. His hope unleashed within you gives you every reason to look forward to tomorrow. Even when the darkness of evil lurks about you and the darkness may even swoop down and attack you tomorrow, His unfailing love comes into the darkness and He gives you hope upon hope. God did not promise you an eternal glory for no reason. God promised you an eternal glory because He knew you needed His hope to fuel your life and faith. God promised you an eternal glory because He loves you and He shall keep His promise to you forever and ever.

2nd Corinthians 1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: 10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; 11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

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Striving For Success

A Christian must strive for success in matters both large and small. You should not accept anything from yourself that is not successful. We all fail, but you must never accept failure as if failure were acceptable. When you fail, glorify God by coming back with a renewed spirit and new determination to be successful. You must never falter in striving to be successful in your walk of faith. If you accept failure as normal, you will fail at being Christ-like. You must not shrug off failed attempts. You must work hard to be successful in your relationship with Christ, with others, and in your daily endeavors. Christ expects you to achieve great things for Him. One of His expectations of you is that you give 110% of all you are and all you have in working towards His destination in your life.

Joshua 1:7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

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Believing and BELIEVING!

Christ's victory over death helps us hold on to our faith. By Jesus coming back from death, He gave our faith substance. Words fail us in so many situations. The ideas of faith and substance do not go together. For example, you can say you believe in angels, yet you may have never seen one. When you have the substance of faith you can believe angels exist and believe they are real even when you have never seen them. However, when you see an angel lift a car off a trapped child then you have substance to your faith. The difference is believing and BELIEVING!

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Everyday Faith

We hope and trust in many things. We use faith and we trust in common everyday things, and we do not realize we use faith and trust every minute of every day. Every bite of food we eat, we eat by faith, hoping we do not get poisoned. Every pill we take, we take by faith hoping we do not have some kind of reaction to the medication and trusting the pills are made to stringent scientific standards. There isn't anything we do during the day when we don't use faith. When we walk outside, we have faith some weather phenomenon will not sweep us away and kill us. When we drive our car we have faith we will not be in an accident. When we turn on our TV or an appliance, we have faith the TV or appliance will not start a fire. When we get out of bed in the morning we have faith the floor beneath us will hold us up. When we turn on our computer we have faith all the systems in the computer will work as expected. When we read a newspaper we have faith the ink in the newspaper is not laden with some kind of poison. The fact is, for people who think they doubt or who think they are skeptical, they have faith just like the rest of us. The fact is, we all have faith and we all use our faith. We could not easily survive or get along in the world without faith. The most important question is, will you just put your faith in material things that break or at some point cease to exist, or will you put your faith in God who is everlasting.

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