Welcome to the Christian Café where we offer a cup of Jesus every day!!!
Life is hard, even when
you’re a Christian. Even when you try to love God with all your heart, bad
things will happen. Terrible things can
and will come. Because there are just too many moments and hours and days and
weeks that don’t feel like God has a plan for your life.
How many of us have felt like Job from the old testament wondering how much more can I take, and in those moments we feel isolated and alone feeling the idea of a wonderful life rings hollow or is some how lost on us. If makes us wonder what is God's plan for us? Some will resent him others will lose faith in God's promises to us.
Here's the truth of the matter. If you are a Christian the world will despise you. Think about that for a moment. They despised the son of God and placed him on a cross, yes they will despise you and undermine you at every turn. Here's the good news, God does have a wonderful plan for you and its eternal life and He is coming back.
God does have a plan for your life on earth, too. But, it's not always going to be a bowl full of cherries. That was the garden of Eden and we lost sight of what God asked us to do. Times have changed. Our lives on earth will be trying, difficult, sometimes tragic. sometimes unbearable, often sprinkled with joy and happiness. but with out the hard times how would we have the opportunity to be Christ like?
All of these things, good and bad can bring glory to God, can help us know him more, can bring us to our knees, can take us sailing to heights we've never known before. Some time the human experience can be described as a roller coaster ride during our own personal trials and tribulations.
This is when I know I need a large cup of Jesus, all of my fear. doubt, pain and anger is subsided when I am reflecting on his grace and mercy. . I have learned to appreciate the song "Praise him in this Storm" If we learn to praise him in this storm he will be there for us.
I am reminded of a better place to come when I read John 14:3 "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself. that where I am, there ye may be also." This world will be filled with trials and tribulations but God has promised we will be with him and have eternal life. Wow how great is that.
Eternal life is mentioned over 50 times in the Bible, How great is that! Understand that God does what he does for reasons we can't always see or understand. Learn to believe that God is good. even when you"re feeling like Job.
Here are a few of my favorite versus on eternal life.
How many of us have felt like Job from the old testament wondering how much more can I take, and in those moments we feel isolated and alone feeling the idea of a wonderful life rings hollow or is some how lost on us. If makes us wonder what is God's plan for us? Some will resent him others will lose faith in God's promises to us.
Here's the truth of the matter. If you are a Christian the world will despise you. Think about that for a moment. They despised the son of God and placed him on a cross, yes they will despise you and undermine you at every turn. Here's the good news, God does have a wonderful plan for you and its eternal life and He is coming back.
God does have a plan for your life on earth, too. But, it's not always going to be a bowl full of cherries. That was the garden of Eden and we lost sight of what God asked us to do. Times have changed. Our lives on earth will be trying, difficult, sometimes tragic. sometimes unbearable, often sprinkled with joy and happiness. but with out the hard times how would we have the opportunity to be Christ like?
All of these things, good and bad can bring glory to God, can help us know him more, can bring us to our knees, can take us sailing to heights we've never known before. Some time the human experience can be described as a roller coaster ride during our own personal trials and tribulations.
This is when I know I need a large cup of Jesus, all of my fear. doubt, pain and anger is subsided when I am reflecting on his grace and mercy. . I have learned to appreciate the song "Praise him in this Storm" If we learn to praise him in this storm he will be there for us.
I am reminded of a better place to come when I read John 14:3 "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself. that where I am, there ye may be also." This world will be filled with trials and tribulations but God has promised we will be with him and have eternal life. Wow how great is that.
Eternal life is mentioned over 50 times in the Bible, How great is that! Understand that God does what he does for reasons we can't always see or understand. Learn to believe that God is good. even when you"re feeling like Job.
Here are a few of my favorite versus on eternal life.
Luke 20:38
"Now He is not the God of the
dead but of the living; for all live to Him."
John
3:15
that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
John 6:40
For it is My Father's will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."
John 10:28
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
1 John 1:2
And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.
1 John 5:11
And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
1 John 5:13
I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
John 6:40
For it is My Father's will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."
John 10:28
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
1 John 1:2
And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.
1 John 5:11
And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
1 John 5:13
I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
