The consistency of God is seen in the sunrise, His protection through the strength and shade of a tree, His provision through the rain, His resurrection through the changing of the seasons, His vastness through the mountains and ocean, His intimacy through the song of a bird.
On the cross, Christ proposed to take all your sins, all your imperfections, all your mistakes and mess-ups upon himself so you no longer have to bear that misery.
Your first love serves to make you know what proper love feels like. God is often overlooked as our first love, but He was there from the very beginning.
The Bible speaks boldly about love. Not just the agape love that God has for us, it speaks of love in relationships: the love we have for our family, our friends and in marriage.
Luke 15:11-32 is the narrative of the Prodigal Son. God runs to me when I return to Him. He doesn’t sit there waiting for me to journey back to Him. He doesn’t slowly meander my way. He runs swiftly and embraces me.
Satan Doesn’t Want You to Know Yourself Satan tries to distract you from getting to know yourself. If you truly knew yourself, you’d know God. When you accept Christ into your life, the Holy Spirit
You feel the pressure rising. Your teachers expect straight A’s, your youth pastor expects you to be at church every week, your parents expect you to act with respect and your coach expects you to play your best. Everyone has such high expectations from you, it seems impossible to keep up.
“The world often times has greater expectations of the church than the church has for itself.” If this is the case, then the church body (the body of believers) is failing the world. Not because we’re hypocrites, conservative or split on the topic of homosexuality, but because the world is looking for a Savior and we’re not giving Him to them. As the Church, we know the only Savior is Jesus. The world wants a Savior, they’re being drawn to the Savior, they need a Savior and we’re hiding Him from them.
Building a strong foundation that will last takes a lot of effort. Love doesn’t happen overnight. We should be devoted to our relationship with God.
One of our major goals as teenagers is to gain independence. To do this, we have to learn responsibility and realize what it means to care for ourselves. We are not meant to be independent, but rather we are supposed to be mature.
