You Are Not Alone.

 Let's be honest. How many of us feel lonely or alone these days? Stuck at home, unable to go places or see people. This virus is sure weighing on people. If you are able to go out, you have to wear a mask, so you still don't really see people like you used to. You feel like you are the only one going through this. You feel invisible. Nobody notices you anymore. With the mask and all the restrictions, you just kind of fade into the background!

Well have I got good news for you. You are not alone. Jesus is right there with you. Sitting beside you. Standing beside you. Holding your hand, comforting you.

Deuteronomy 31:8 Amplified Bible

8 It is the Lord who goes before you; He will be with you. He will not fail you or abandon you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

The Lord will not leave you. That promise is true. People will abandon you all the time, The Lord never will. 

Matthew 28:20 Amplified Bible

20  I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age.”

Psalm 118:8-16 The Message

8 Far better to take refuge in God than trust in people; Far better to take refuge in God than trust in celebrities.

There is a song out by Zach Williams called "There Was Jesus" It's a song about Jesus always being there. No matter what happens.

Every time I tried to make it on my own, and instead fell flat on my face - there was Jesus.

When the life that I built comes crashing to the ground - there was Jesus.

No matter what kind of pain you have gone through. Loss of a loved one. Divorce, bankruptcy, anything - there was Jesus.

Through fires or floods - there was Jesus.

I think that you get the point. No matter what low point you have been at, or the highest point you have been. Jesus has been with you, every step of the way! Even when you didn't know it.

I pray that as we continue through our lives, that we feel Jesus warm embrace more than ever before. Telling us not to worry. He is with us.

Cost of Love.

Valentines day is just around the corner. Millions of people will spend millions of dollars on chocolate, flowers, cards, food just to show their significant other that they love them. Our human version of love and what we think that we need to spend to show it.

God has different ways to show us His love and the cost.

John 3:16 New Living Translation

16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

God loves us so much and cares for us so much. It only cost Him His Son. Can you imagine God calling you and saying "Keven, we need you to sacrifice your daughter for the greater good of the world." I would be like, "umm, I don't think so." I'm not willing to pay that price. That cost is too high. But that is what God did for us. He gave His only Son. For us. So that we could have eternal life.

John 15:13 Amplified Bible

13 No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends.

How many of you are willing to lay down your life for your friends? I may not have died physically, but I have absorbed some of the punishment that was meant for my friends. Things that they really would have gotten in trouble for. I ran interference for them. Deflected some of the blame to myself. Even though I didn't really have anything to do with it. I loved my friends and didn't want to see them get in trouble. So by loving our friends, it may cost us our lives! Is that a price you are willing to pay?

So no matter how much we think that we need to spend to show our love to each other. Consider what God has done for us, in showing us His love.

John 13:34 New Living Translation

34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.

So let's walk this out. Let's love each other just as Jesus has loved us. No better example of love to follow.

1 Corinthians 13:13 Amplified Bible

13 And now there remain: faith [abiding trust in God and His promises], hope [confident expectation of eternal salvation], love [unselfish love for others growing out of God’s love for me], these three [the choicest graces]; but the greatest of these is love.

Love and God Bless!