Undeserved Love

        Last weekend we were honored to bring our new born daughter home from the hospital for the first time. My wife and I love her so much and like most parents we have prepared her a room and are willing to give her anything she needs and even lay our lives down for her if needed.

        This reminded me of the fact that our daughter has not done anything to deserve our love other than coming to this world. She doesn’t even understand the concept of loving us back yet.

John 15:9
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.

      The more I think about it, the more I realize that our  heavenly Father’s love is the same way for us. We have not done anything to deserve his love; yet he loves us and blesses us. He even loved us so much that he gave his only son for us to take our sins from us. The love of the Father for us is an undeserved love. We have done absolutely nothing to deserve it, yet He keeps loving us.

1 John 3:1
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!

1 John 4:10
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Baby

Last night as I was laying down on my bed, thinking about the sonogram pictures and the fact that I will be holding my baby girl in my arms soon,  I was amazed by the love that I feel towards her.

It struck me that if I, a sinner, know how to love my daughter so much without even having met her yet, how much more is the heavenly Father’s love for his children?

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart……” (Jeremiah 1:5)  

“Before I was born the LORD called me; from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name……” (Isaiah 49:1)

Last night once again I was reminded about Father’s love for us. We are blessed and have so much to give thanks for on Thanksgiving Day.

Amazed By God’s Grace

We have had two of LifePoint’s official services and both of them have been amazing so far! It totally amazes me to see how God can start something from Nothing. A few months ago I didn’t even know there would be a LifePoint Church, and some years before that I didn’t even know there was somebody named Jesus who loved me so much to give his life for me!

I am really looking forward to all the things that God is going to do in the coming months and years! I know Jesus’ love, grace, kindness is beyond my comprehension. I know that He loves people in Catalina, AZ and He wants to reveal himself to the them. My prayer is that He Would do this Through LifePoint Church and all the great, loving and nice people who are members of LifePoint.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13)

Equipped to Serve

 

Ephesians 4:11-12

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;

It is so cool to know that we as followers of Jesus are equipped with tools to serve God and be a part of the building up of the body of Christ! This weekend as we had our first Lifepoint Church service, I was reminded on how each member of the body of Christ is equipped to serve. It was really cool to see, everybody doing all they can to bring glory to God’s name. LifePoint Church is already blessed with awesome people who are so willing to use their gifts to make Jesus’s name know to Catalina, AZ and the world.