Jesus Our Life Giver

JESUS GIVES LIFE

I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. John 10:10

Yes, Jesus loves me! That’s one of the first phrases children learn in Sunday school. But the full impact of it can be difficult to grasp. He came to give you life! As our Lord Jesus Christ says in the verse for today, “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”

   It’s been said that Jesus will not only add years to your life, but life to your years. The cross of the Lord Jesus Christ is God’s plus-sign to us. When the negatives of life come against us, He cancels out all the negatives so that we end up with a plus. He is the Lord who adds to us and restores to us that which the enemy has stolen from us.

   The Lord wants to be your plus sign. He wants to give you what no other human being can give you – His love, grace, favour, wisdom and eternal life. He wants to make your life an addition and not a subtraction. He wants to make you a blessing so that you can in turn be a blessing unto others.

   Through Christ, we have access to the good life! Why should we be discouraged? Why should we be distressed? Yes, Jesus loves me – He turns my minuses into plusses.

Prayer: Thank You Lord for turning the negatives in my life to addition.

Scriptural Reading: John 10:7-21

7 Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

8 All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.

12 But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.

13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.

14 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.

15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.

17 “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.

18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”

19 Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these sayings.

20 And many of them said,”He has a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to Him?”

21 Others said, “These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

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Jesus Our Life Giver