When you know someone, and like someone, do you not delight in spending time with them?

So it is with Jesus!   If you know Jesus, then you must be spending time with Jesus!    Spending time with Jesus  is done through reading His word, and praying daily.    For this is where Jesus  is!

In building any friendship, time  is spent, enjoyed, and built.   So too, it is with Jesus.   Jesus is a living, loving person.   He feels and loves, forgives, and cries, as we do.   He is one with us!    Because He was one of us!

Jesus knows and Jesus understands!   Yet, Jesus must be loved!    To love Jesus is to know Jesus!   We can all love in a small way; but to love exceedingly, and profoundly, is done through prayer,  reflecting and learning His ways.    In learning His ways, we have chosen to be like Him!   This is loving intently without reservation, or any unguarded pretense.

Isn’t it interesting that One who loves so completely, is forsaken, left alone,  betrayed, and abandoned .    He is you know!    When we choose ourselves above spending time with Jesus, we have done just that!

We have many choices on how we wish to spend our time.   The distractions of life are of Satan.    The greatest joy is Jesus!    This I say through experience and know it to be true!   His undying love is present within those who love Him first!   Loving Him first, means He is ‘priority one’!   In other words, He and His desire for you is your greatest and first concern.

That means  forgiving when it ‘hurts’!

It is not easy  to forgive!   We all are faced with that choice from time to time.   It takes a greater love to achieve forgiveness when we have been ‘betrayed, abandoned, and alone.   This can only be achieved with the ‘help of Jesus Christ’!   Calling on Him to help is growing spiritually.     This is following His teachings, His ways, and choosing to become like Him.   Then ‘peace’ settles in.

When we ‘hang unto  anger’ we weigh   ourselves down.    The concern and weight of the occurrence lives within us daily; thereby stealing our peace.    This is Satan’s way!   Then He (Satan) has won this round.   For this is what Satan delights in.   He loves to see us squirm.    Being ‘mortal’ we all face this!   Jesus being divine, knows this, and saves us from this, when we call upon Him.

He waits!

He waits for each and everyone of us to call upon Him!   He loves, and lives, and waits for us to return His love to Him.   We do this when we pray, read His word, follow His teachings, choosing Him above all things!

Loving with Jesus is truly living!

Book of Mark: Chapter 7 verses 8-16   &  20-23   Jesus Speaks :

8) “You disregard God’s commandment and cling to what is human tradtion.” 9) He went on to say: “You have made a fine art of setting aside God’s commandment in the interest of keeping your traditions!   10)For example, Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and in another place, ‘Whoever curses father of mother shall  be   put to death.’   11) Yet you declare, ‘If a person says to his father or mother, Any support you might have had from me is korban; ( that is, dedicated to God), 12) you allow him to do nothing more for his father or mother.   13)that is the way you nullify God’s word in favor of the traditons you have handed on And you have many other such practices besides.”   14) He summoned the crowd again and said to them: “Hear me, all of you, and try to understand.   15) Nothing that enters a man from outside can make him impure; that which comes out of him, and only that, constitutes impurity.   16) Let everyone heed what he hears!”

20) He went on: “What emerges from within a man, that and nothing else is what makes  him impure.      21) Wicked designs come from  the  deep recesses of the heart: acts of fornication, theft, murder, adulterous conduct, greed, maliciousness, deceit, sensuality, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, and obtuse spirit.   23) All these evils come from within and render a man impure.”