On the Offensive

I am relishing in this day, December 6, my birthday. It is only 8:30am in the morning and I have been greeted by a phone call from my parents, breakfast brought to me in bed by my entire family, many fabulous friends connecting with me through facebook wishing me a Happy Birthday and more. It has already been a full day. Then I collect my thoughts to spend time with the Lord and Jim Denison brings up this point. "This Advent “week of faith,” let’s review the facts behind the story we tell this season. Christmas actually begins at creation, as Scripture claims that “all things were created by Jesus and for him” (Colossians 1:16). According to Christians, Jesus created the universe he entered at Christmas. Consider the scope of his work." God is the creator of every good and perfect thing. It is only from his hand that we have life and breath. With many people claiming to destroy the name of Jesus and rob Him of who he is, we as believers must stand up and be a light to a world who truly is simply arrogant and ignorant to the fact that there is a God who loves and cares for them. Lord, might I acknowledge and follow you today as a beacon of light and hope to everyone I come in contact with. I know you created all things and it is by you and through you that all things exist. I follow you Lord and seek you today!

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Might this blog be used by God to reach many with the love of God through His son Christ Jesus. May the Lord use this as a tool to direct many people to understand who God is, maybe for the first time or for a reminder to continually seek God on a daily basis.

Let us all remember we have the capacity to love because God first loved us. Why can I say this? Because the truth of Scripture reveals this in 1 John 4. Read the following passage to understand how much God loves you and also what God desires for those who worship Him and love Him.

1 John 4:8-21 says...
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹²No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

¹³We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. ¹⁵If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. ¹⁶And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. ¹⁷In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. ¹⁸There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

¹⁹We love because he first loved us. ²⁰If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. ²¹And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.