Dear to whom this may apply.
I know this applies to a lot of people. I am not aiming this at anyone specific because I know a lot of you who need to hear this. You are not alone. I also need to hear this.
First of all, if you don’t know Jesus, let me tell you that He loves you and you need Him. (Romans 5:8; Psalm 139:13-16) You and I, we are sinful people. (Romans 10:23; Psalm 53:3).When you look around and see that something is wrong in the world you are seeing correctly, something went wrong- it is because of the sin that entered the perfect world God created. (Genesis 3:6) Making it no longer perfect. Someone has to pay for this. Our sin deserves punishment. It deserves death, we deserve to be in hell (Romans 6:23). But God looked at our condition and had compassion on us. He called us worthy of His love, worthy of His only Son’s life.(John 3:16-17; Romans 5:8 again) Jesus is God (John 1:1; John 10:30-33; John 14:6-7). He came to this earth in the form of a man. He lived the perfect life that you and I could not live. He was blameless, without fault, without sin. Perfect. (Hebrews 4:15; 1 Peter 2:22) Because of God’s immense love for you He brought Jesus, His only Son into this world to be our perfect sacrifice. To die the death that our sinful lives deserved. (Mark 10:45) A replacement- Jesus on the cross with yours and mine, our sin upon Himself. (John 19-20) Only to conquer death, and rise from the dead so that we may be restored unto the perfect life with God that was originally intended. He wants us so badly to know Him, be forgiven for our sins, have abundant life on earth, to spend eternity in heaven with the Father.(John 17:1-4; John 10:10) He is calling you to accept His free sacrifice. All you have to do is accept. It’s that simple. (Romans 10:13; Romans 10:4; Romans 5:8 again;1 Timothy 2:4-6)
I want you to know that until you accept this truth, until you accept Jesus as your Savior, you will never be fulfilled. The emptiness you feel inside won’t go away. The peace, rest, love, and contentment you have been looking for can only be found in Jesus. This is truth. I have been where you are, with doubts and uncertainty. Jesus is the only way.
“You will eat but never have enough. Your hunger pangs and emptiness will remain. And though you try to save your money, it will come to nothing in the end. You will save a little, but I will give it to those who conquer you.” Micah 6:14
Ecclesiastes 1-5.
Ecclesiastes 2:10-11 “I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.”
To those of you who are Believers and follow Jesus Christ please read on. If you are not a Believer this may help you, I don’t know, but I don’t expect you to understand. So I am sorry if this hurts you. But if it causes you to think more about your need for Christ, then I am willing to not be liked by whomever. I say this because I believe with everything I am that the best way I can love someone is by telling them about Jesus. If I do not tell you then I am doing you an injustice and am actually hating you.
ok so yella! (come on, let’s go). (as the Lebanese would say ;) )
If you are a Believer in Christ and you are dating someone who isn’t a Believer, I know that life is hard. I know that you are feeling the conviction. You know the truth, all you have to do is open the Word. Therefore you do not need me to tell you what you should do, you don’t need another Believer telling you to trust God and do what you know is right. You’ve heard it, its a broken record. You have probably told others the same thing, but you can’t accept it for yourself. So that is not what I am going to give you. I want you to think about your life before you knew Christ. Think about how unsatisfied you were and how you kept searching for something to satisfy you. Maybe you had everything you ever wanted, but you still wanted something more. Nothing was ever good enough to fill the craving you had. You don’t even know what the craving was for until you met Jesus. Maybe you were going through a really hard time in your life, maybe everything came crashing down. You had nowhere to go and no one to turn to but God and He saved you. You were worshiping other gods. Maybe you have always known God was real but you have lived your life as a lukewarm, talk the talk but don’t walk the walk Christian and you finally got tired of the B.S., of the lie (2 Peter 2:21; Revelation 3:16). When one thing didn’t work, you were on to the next thing until you found Christ. The point is, nothing filled the void in your life until you became a follower of Christ-that we all have in common.
Now back to the relationship with a non-believer. Imagine this. You can agree with me or not, I guess only time will tell. But I am willing to bet on everything that this will happen to you. Your boyfriend or your girlfriend-who doesn’t have Jesus… when they realize that you too, you also, cannot fill the emptiness they are feeling inside- the emptiness they have been trying to fill just like everything in their life which can only be filled by JESUS… they will leave you. They will move on to the next thing. Not because you aren’t great and wonderful, but because they have looked to you to be their god in one way or another and you will let them down because you aren’t Jesus. And if you too are looking to them to be your god, they will let you down because they are not Jesus. And if they don’t leave you and you don’t leave them you will spend the rest of your life trying to be someone’s god and you will never live up to that standard because you are not Jesus. And you will be held accountable for allowing someone to put you as an idol before God Himself. Are you willing to take that responsibility?
