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MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR LIFE!
Updated: Nov 7
Friends, Discovering A BETTER LIFE MINISTRIES is an INTERNET Evangelical Outreach that provides men and women with messages of Encouragement and Hope, as well as empowering seekers, along with believers in Jesus Christ worldwide, to understand, experience, and celebrate their oneness with all others who know Jesus as Saviour and Lord, regardless of denomination, church fellowship, or historic tradition.
In a world too often filled with bad news, the primary desire of Discovering A BETTER LIFE MINISTRIES is to share the “Good News” that a loving God has made it possible for everyone to enter a personal relationship with Himself through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ! This is a wonderful reality that we treasure and enjoy by trusting that it is true:
(Acts 2:38-39; 2 Corinthians 5:17)
(Stories of: Real People, Real Events, Real Places)
And are dedicated to HELPING
PEOPLE FIND SALVATION, PEACE and HOPE
Through entering a genuine
Relationship with Jesus Christ,
Who has declared,
“In this world you will have trouble,
But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
(John 10:10; 14:1-6)
(16:33; Acts 2:36-47)
TODAY’S MESSAGE OF HOPE
MAKE
THE MOST OF YOUR LIFE!
Friend, in every city of the world, in every age, you come across or read about people who have looked suffering right in the eye and refused to buckle under.
Such people are indeed an inspiration to others!
I think of people like Yvonne and Yvette who are thirty-two years old and permanently joined at the head. They have two independent brains, but they share one bloodstream.
Yet they get on with living!
Then, there’s Mark Hicks, who can turn his head only thirty degrees. That’s all the control he had over his body, but he became a brilliant painter. And the movie about his life, “Gravity Is My Enemy,” won an Oscar in 1981.
We can also be inspired by Terry Fox, a twenty-two-year-old Canadian who had suffered bone cancer yet ran the three thousand kilometres between Saint John’s and Thunder Bay with one artificial leg to raise money for cancer research.
Then there was Helen Keller (1880-1968), whose improbable journey from a child unable to communicate due to her multiple disabilities to her exalted place on the world stage as a famous global citizen is one of the greatest stories of the 20th century!
This amazing deaf and blind woman had such a positive attitude to life and never allowed her multiple disabilities to hold her back. She dedicated her life to tireless advocacy and fearless activism that opened wide the doors of possibility and hope. Helen’s zest for life inspired future generations of people with disabilities to live life to the fullest. It was Helen Keller who wrote, "I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do!"
Then there was David Livingstone, the famous explorer of Africa, who at ten-years-of-age, studied from six in the morning to eight at night. By the time he was eighteen, he had so mastered Latin that he could read Horace and Virgil with ease.
The atheist Sigmund Freud lived in constant pain for the last sixteen years of his life. During this time, he endured thirty-three operations. But he stuck to his work to the very end!
Last, but not least, there was there was the most amazing man who ever walked upon the face of this earth, Jesus of Nazareth, who although "He shared God's very nature from the beginning, did not cling to His prerogatives as God's equal, but stripped Himself of all privilege by consenting to be a slave by nature and being born as mortal man. And, having become a man, He humbled Himself by living a life of utter obedience, even to the extent of dying, and the death He died was the death of a common criminal." (Philippians 2:6-8)
Jesus could have stopped this whole illegal travesty, yet he allowed it to continue. In effect, Jesus willingly endured ridicule, abuse, scorn, mockery, and humiliation as soldiers gambled over his clothes and his enemies took glee in his agony on the Cross.
Jesus died alone, bearing the awful cruelty and the debased mockery that He experienced, so that we could become God's holy and precious children.
This was a conscious act of his will. Jesus had hinted to his followers about this event in His teaching on the Good Shepherd. When He said:“No one can take my life from me. I lay down my life voluntarily. For I have the right to lay it down when I want to and the power to take it again” (John 10:18).
No one could take Jesus' life from Him!
He willingly gave up His life!
When Jesus died upon the cross of Calvary, He did more than say, "It is finished," He also allowed his mortality to overtake him when he voluntarily "gave up his spirit!" and died.
(Luke 23:33-46)
Why did he do it?
Very simple: Jesus gave up his spirit,
because of his love for you and me!
The apostle John, in his later letter, put it this way: "We know what real love is because Christ gave up his life for us” (1 John 3:16a).
Friend, the cross and resurrection hold the key to the mystery of human suffering. Something occurred in those two events that forever affects human suffering:
God “Broke the power of Death and showed us the way of Everlasting Life!”
(2 Timothy 1:10).
There is no better teacher than someone who knows what they are talking about because of suffering in their own life, and someone who loves you and will patiently work with you until you too can understand the mystery of suffering. Jesus meets all these criteria to be our perfect spiritual example and mentor.
The writer of the book of Hebrews says that Jesus came to earth to be near us and to identify with us. He suffered because it was appropriate that a Saviour suffer with suffering people. Then, when believers suffer hardships, they know they have a Saviour who really understands what they are going through (Hebrews 4:15-16).
This, my friend, is why Jesus, who offered himself so willingly as a sacrifice for mankind’s sin, is Lord! He understands the human situation totally. He didn’t have it easy. He knew severe suffering. He cried out for relief. He trusted God when it was dark and He didn’t fully understand. That’s why you and I are able to accept him fully as our teacher and our example in many areas, but especially in suffering.
Jesus gave up his spirit ... willingly ... because of love ... so he could ransom you and me from the power of sin and death,
SAVING US from the grip of hell's insatiable appetite and WINNING us to God for eternity!
Today, friend, I urge you to reflect on the wonderful fact that the Lord of glory willingly emptied Himself of the glory He enjoyed with His Father. He descended from glory to bring forgiveness of sins and Eternal life to all of humanity.
He lived and died!
He was resurrected from the tomb
where His dead body had laid for 3-days!
"That is why God raised Him to the highest place and conferred on Him the name that is above all others, so that at the name of Jesus everyone in heaven, on earth and under the earth, should bow in worship, and everyone openly declare 'Jesus Christ is Lord', to the glory of God the Father." (Philippians 2:9-11)
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Today, we sincerely hope you have been touched and changed by this incredible act of Jesus' loving, saving grace and that you might be encouraged to make the most of your life, as you face the future with courage and optimism, by trusting your life to Jesus of Nazareth.
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