Weekly Message: Jesus is answer 8/5/2017 1/23/2024
By Rev. Katherine Liu Bruce
Christian Arts Ministries: Biblical Precepts & Gospel Music; Pastoral ministry & Counseling
Introduction
My
friends, do you frustrate of your love one and anxious about how to keep life
go on? Or worry about your children, how to fit in and grow in godliness life? Jesus is answer.
Jesus
is the best Father, Bridegroom, and Physician
When
there is conflict, hurt, disagreement, our Lord Jesus is able to transform your
love-one into His likeness in His timing. Don’t be frustrated, persistently lead
children or your love one to know the Jesus Christ our Lord and grow them in
Biblical precepts, decrees, and laws in the Bible. By the powerful Word of God to
penetrate their thoughts and minds, the life will find the way of peace, love,
strength, joy, favor, acceptance, forgiveness, and eternal life. Jesus Christ
our Lord is the best Father, Bridegroom, and Physician. Once your love-one find
Jesus, he or she will find the inner-man peace and emotional tranquility. Jesus
Christ our Messiah can transform Saul into Apostle Paul in Jesus’ timing; He
will do the same things in this era. For Jesus is same yesterday, today, and
forever more.
The
Psalmist King David’s help
My friends may be you live in a long life,
yet, without love and struggle to serve someone full of anger, better, envy,
and jealous person just like King Saul. It results you search the meaning and
answer of life. In the Old Testament, when the Psalmist King David in the
Desert of Judah, separated from the sanctuary in Jerusalem, David fellowships
with God, and rely on God who is “the desire of his being, the delight of his
soul, and the defense of his life.”[1] He expressed his deep love to his God, his
soul thirsty for him and on the bed he remembers and thinks about the Lord
through the watches of the night. He said,
“I have seen you in the sanctuary
and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name
I will lift up my hands. My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of
foods, with singing lips my mouth will praise you. On my bed I remember You, I
think about you through the watches of the night. Because you are my help, I
sing in the shadow of your wing. My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds
me.”(Ps.63:2-8).
When Psalmist
King David faced enemies’ life threatened and dangerous, in his whole being, he
yelled to God and claimed “the Lord’s love is better than life”. In his
distress, and frustration he appealed for God’s help and petitioned God to
defense of his life. Even the imprecatory prayers appears to verse 9,
“They
who seek my life will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the
earth. They will be given over to the sword and become food for jackals. But
the king will rejoice in God, all who swear by God’s name will praise him while
the mouths of liars will be silenced. (Ps.63:9-11). The Lord is love, full of mercy and
close to those who were broken hearted. And the teas of those who delight in
Him, trust in Him and rely on in Him, he will not neglect it. Jesus Christ as
Messiah, he demonstrated as such servant, “a bruised reed he will
not break, and a smoldering witch he will not snuff out” (Isa.42:3).In
Chinese literary says, “壓傷的蘆葦,他不會折斷,將殘的燈火,他不吹滅.”(Isa.42:3). The Lord is
full of compassionate, and understands each heart of frustration, and able to
forgive the act of imprecating. For God is love, he came to the world not to
condom the world, but save the world.
Jesus
is the way, He transformed Saul into Apostle Paul
Jesus is the way,
life and truth. In Jesus’ timing, He deals with a most cruel man named, Saul. Jesus
met him in a light, spoke to him and transformed him into an apostle. Saul
became Apostle Paul who described himself few characteristics in the book of
Philippians 3:4 – 6
“If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put
confidence in the flesh, I have more:
1)
Circumcised on the eighth day, 2) of the people of Israel, 3) of the tribe of
Benjamin,
4)
A Hebrew of Hebrews. 5) in regard to the law. 6) A Pharisee. 7) As for zeal persecuting
the church. 8) As for legalistic righteousness, faultless.”
Can you believe
Jesus is able to do more than what we can image? Jesus’ transforming power
modeled Saul into the purist gold to serve the Lord in His timing. The divine
power of God shaped Paul into a willing heart that he had forsaken everything in
order to gain the Christ. Paul’s explicit statement in Philippians 3:7-8 said,
“But
whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness
of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I
consider them rubbish, than I may gain Christ.” “But one thing I do: I
forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. I press on toward
the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ
Jesus.” (Phil.3:13).
Moses’
prayers satisfy us in the
morning with your unfailing love
My friends, each
concern, worry and conflict with your love one, lead them to know Jesus and the
knowledge of truth. Keep praying and petition for them, help them to grow in
the Bible, the Word of God will shape them into the godliness and contentment.
Each conflict, don’t live in the sense of frustration nor give up the life. In
Old Testament, Moses faced his people all the anger, rejection, he didn’t give
up nor turn away from his people, yet, he petitioned for his people without
ceasing, in Psalm 90, he prayed,
“ Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout
all generations…you turn men back to dust, saying, return to dust, O sons of
men. For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or
like a watch in the night... we are consumed by your
anger and terrified by your indignation…the
length of our days is seventy years or eighty, if we have the strength; yet
their span is but trouble and sorrow…teach us to number our day
aright that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Relent, O
Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants. Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, we may sing for joy and be glad all our days…may the favor of
the Lord our God rest upon us, establish the work of our hands for us –yes
establish the work of our hands.”
My
friends, do you live in anger, wrath, frustration, complain, anxious about yourselves
or your love-one all the days of your life? Or you serve someone can never
satisfy about your service? Moses lifted
up his people to the Lord in prayers; Psalmist King David sought God’s help,
and claimed the Lord’s love is better than the life. Life without love is
meaningless; love without life is also meaningless. Yet, one thing I know that
Jesus satisfied both, He gives not only eternal life, also unfailing love. Even
Moses prayed “satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love.” And King
David said, “O Lord, because
your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.”
My friends, when earthly love can’t satisfy
you or keep frustrating you, let heavenly Father’s love satisfies you. “The
Lord searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought if you
seek him, he will be found by you.” (1 Chronicles28:9). The love of
Christ Jesus provides you both unfailing love and eternal life. Leading your love one to know Jesus Christ,
and learn the Bible. The
powerful Word of God able to penetrate the thoughts and minds and transform
one’s characters. And the life will find the way of peace, love, strength, joy,
favor, acceptance, forgiveness, and eternal life. Jesus Christ our Lord is the
best Father, Bridegroom, and Physician. Once your love-one find Jesus, he or
she will find the inner-man peace and emotional tranquility. Amen!
[1]
Charles C. Ryrie, the Ryrie study Bible
(NIV). (Chicago, IL: The Moody Bible Institute, 1986), 773
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