July 15, 2014

Looking for love in all the wrong places

So here is the deal...you have tried self-help. You have tried "finding yourself." You have tried finding the bigger better deal. You thought that the next big thing was going to bring you lasting joy and happiness. You thought finding the right person would make you happy. How has that worked for you?

Listen, your normal. Every human being on the planet is trying to find the same things. There is a longing and an ache in our hearts for something more.

Years ago there was a hit country song called: "Looking for love in all the wrong places." We all have been looking for love and purpose in the wrong places.

Real love and purpose will not be found until you find the truth. The truth is not a set of facts but a person and His name is Jesus. He loves you and He created you. You exist because of Him.

"God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He’s set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much, the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating. We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body. He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross." Colossians 1:13-20 (The Message)

Would you come to Him and find love, purpose, and peace that goes beyond anything this world can offer. He answers the big questions of life and you will not find lasting joy until you find it in Him.