Church Life is the best Life

There is a calm that washes over you when you are in church and a peace that you take with you when you receive Christ into your heart. There is no way to thoroughly explain it, you just have to feel it. Church is a place where you can feel safe, loved and peaceful. You are there among friends and family in unity and love for one another. They are your brothers, sisters in Christ no matter their skin tone or upbringing. We are all the same at church, we are all one love, we all bleed red like our Lord and Savior did. I feel this every time I walk in the door and it is the most refreshing feeling in the world.

I was reminded of this as I went to the bathroom and when I walked in; all the ladies purses and belongings were just sitting on the counter out in the open. There was no need to take them with them in the stalls with them, because there is a tremendous amount of trust there. My thought is the same, if I leave my purse out here it will be safe as we are all family and we do not steal from one another or anyone for that matter. We are one with God and we walk in his holiness and love.Where else can you do that? No where ,that's where. No where can you lay down your belongings in this world and not expect them to disappear, it's unheard of.

Christians today are being persecuted on a daily basis and why I don't understand.It seems almost acceptable to chastise us for our beliefs,yet if you do that same thing to a Muslim it is racist or bigoted.How is this right?  We are not perfect and we do not claim to be, as we are not God nor Jesus Christ, but we struggle everyday to be Godlike and reflect the light of God. We will never achieve this, but we still strive to be as good as we can to be close to God. To be a Christian is to struggle to be good but also to be there for anyone willing to receive Jesus and to encourage people along the way to come to Christ. We are not here to push our religion on you ,but to show you the way, the truth and the light; but it is ultimately up to you to embrace it. It is not for us to judge you as we will be judged ourselves, but we are only human and we stumble along the way. That's okay too because he loves us anyway and that's why he died for our sins, so that we may be free if we accept him.

The only way to the kingdom of heaven is through HIM and no other way. I encourage you to accept Jesus as your Savior today and watch him work miracles in your life, like he has mine. He has changed me in such a way, I will never be the same. He broke my chains, my guilt, my hatred for myself and others, he freed me from anger and sadness and now because of this I am forever in his debt.I started over and one day I walked into a church , not really knowing why.It was a nagging tugging at my heart daily to go and finally one day I did. I won't say that my life changed immediately that day, because it didn't but it did start that day and slowly changed from there on. I consistently went to Sunday services and it got to a point where I longed for Sundays. If I missed a service it was like I missed a lifetime. There I can let my feelings go, the tears of stress and anger fall to the ground where God catches them and releases them into the cosmos. A weight lifts off me and I leave feeling lighter and free.It was weird, especially if you knew me before I found God or he found me.

Twenty five years ago I was in gangs and hanging out with bad people, five years ago I was a wreck and contemplated suicide. I drank to much, I helped ruin a marriage, I systematically was destroying my life searching for something more. I was a sinner and mess and then I found God, he was there all along just waiting for me. I heard him a time or two telling me it would be ok,but I ignored that voice, I fell into despair and depression. My ex was not a man of God, we were not equally yoked and that is in part why we fell apart. He was not meant for me nor I for him. The bible says that you should be equally yoked with your husband or wife, they should be believers as you believe. Now I am with someone who has my beliefs and we are strong together and that means more than all the jewels in the world. (Amos 5:6-8) {Seek the LORD and ye shall live;lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph and devour it and there be none to quench it in Bethel.}

If you are lost, sad, confused,angry take note, there is hope for you. There is light at the end of that tunnel and it has a name. Jesus. Seek him out and he will embrace you and make you whole again. Nothing can fill that void I know,Ive been there. Only HE can fill it with warmth and love and acceptance and only he can free you. May God Bless and keep you. Amen