I was speaking at a Bible conference, set right near the shore of a beautiful lake. I was responsible for speaking about eighteen times in six days, literally, so I was a pretty busy boy. But I did something that would have made my wife proud, even in spite of how busy I was. I took time to smell the flowers; well, at least to admire the flowers. I have to admit, I'm partially colorblind, but even I was struck by these rich purple flowers blooming all over this sprawling vine in the garden outside my window. The flowers seemed to be everywhere in the garden. I asked someone from the conference what I was looking at. He told me it's a Vinca vine. He said they had transplanted that vine from a pot to the soil of this garden. And I was told a Vinca vine doesn't produce any flowers when it's in a pot-only when you plant it in the ground. Well, what do you know?
In the words of the man who had transplanted that vine, "It thrives only when it is where it was created to be." Well, so do we.
And sadly, so many of us spend our whole life looking for, but missing, where we were created to be. And it is only the One who created you who can ultimately tell you where you were created to be. And He has in our word for today from the Word of God. In six little words, our Creator spells out for us the reason for our existence, the answer to life's most ultimate question, "Why am I here?"
In Colossians 1:16, speaking of Jesus, God says
"All things were""created by Him and for Him."
So you were created by Jesus, you were created for Jesus, and you're going to have hole in your heart until you have Jesus.
Maybe you've been trying to fill that hole in your heart for a long time. But no relationship you've ever had has done it, no accomplishment, no experience, no religion. They can't.
See, the hole in your heart is so big it can only be filled by the person who created you.
And the reason we can't find the meaning we've been looking for, and the peace we need, the lasting love we desire,
the reason is that we're away from the One we were made for. We're away from Him, not by His choice, but by ours.
We were created for Him, but we've lived for ourselves. That's what "sin" is all about.
Notice the middle letter of sin, it's "I." And nothing is really working, nothing is really fulfilling because your sin-your running of your own life-has cut you off from the love you were made for.
That's why Jesus came.
In Colossians 2:13-14 the Bible says,
"God forgave us all our sins, having canceled...what was against us; He took it away, nailing it to the cross."
When you come in your heart to the cross where Jesus died for every wrong thing you've ever done; when you give yourself to the One who gave Himself for you, the sin-wall comes down and you begin for the first time in your life to be "where you were created to be."
Mark Twain once said, "The two most important days in a person's life are the day they're born and the day they find out why." I know you know the day you were born. This could be the day you find out why.
dear reader, if there hasa never been a ime in your life when you let go of your own direction and will, and turned it all over to Christ, why don;t you do that TODAY and BASK in HIS LOVE and HIS PEACE that you will immediately receive once you stop fighting against that TUG at your heart to come to the ONE who loves you so much that HE left Heaven's Glory, became a human and was born as a baby, lived sinlessly for 33 years and laid down HIS LIFE as an OFFERING TO GOD for YOUR SIN DEBT.
Yes, our sins are a debt that needs to be PAID and satisfied. Unfortunately, WE cannot pay that debt. The ONLY acceptable offering that GOD would accept for PAYMENT is the blood of HIS OWN SON, Jesus Christ, who willingly sacrificed HIMSELF on that cruel Roman cross for YOUR SINS and for mine. HE offered up HIS OWN BLOOD for YOU and for ME.
GOD accepted the OFFERING of CHRIST for YOU and for ME and the only thing you or I need to do is simply TAKE CHRIST as SAVIOR and ACCEPT HIS FREE PAYMENT to GOD on your behalf!
When you turn your heart over to HIM and stop fighting against HIM, you will have internal peace and an eternal home in Heaven in HIS presence for all of the rest of eternity...
WHY not do that now before you run out of time and can no longer RUN to JESUS for HIS Unspeakable free GIFT of PARDON and SALVATION ??? ASK HIM to SAVE YOU today and HE will!
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