Sick of Your Life?

The world is packed with substitutes for Jesus Christ, but every one of them is useless.  Jesus forgives, frees, and gives life through repentance and faith.  All false saviours and gods lead to disillusion, enslavement, and death.  Satan works tirelessly to deceive people to think they are fine without God and can save themselves.  Or he will convince them that God does not even exist:  there is no heaven, no hell, no right or wrong, no purpose or meaning to this life, no absolute truth, no free will.

How many people have poured out their lives in pursuits of obtaining fame, wealth, and the accolades of men only to remain empty and devoid of life!  People are caught in addictions, gangs, the occult, and destructive cycles of violence out of fear, depression, and hopelessness.  Satan is a master at showing the alluring side of sin.  Commercials for beer commonly employ humour and most of them show fit, attractive, young people having fun partying.  But what you don't see is the dead people carted off the highways from drink driving, you don't smell the stench of vomit, you don't hear children crying themselves to sleep after being beaten, or feel the regret the next morning for things said or done while drunk.  Not everyone who drinks beer is irresponsible.  But that doesn't undo the pain, shame, regret, and addiction that many experience.

Partying and recreational drug use isn't the only things glamorized by the world contrary to scripture.  Fornication and adultery are seen as made safe by a thin film of rubber.  The potential damage to the soul of a human being through sex outside of marriage is greater than any virus to the body.  Movies and television portray the lie that hooking up is all about fun, conquest, and feeding desires.  What is not seen or discussed is pregnancy, the pressure a woman can feel to have an abortion she doesn't want to have when she falls pregnant, regret, embarrassment, and the fact you give a little bit of yourself away every time you have sex outside of marriage.  Porn reduces women and men to objects which exist solely to gratify lust and degrades them to a unfeeling, soulless participant who has zero value.  1 Corinthians 6:18 says, "Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body."  So people run from relationship to another, have one night stands without number, hoping to satisfy the thirst for significance and love.

People kill themselves every single day.  Some do it with a bullet, a drug overdose, hang themselves, or jump off a bridge.  For others people enslaved in sin, they kill themselves a little every day as they rebel from God and swallow the lies of Satan that significance and satisfaction can be found pursuing pleasure, fun, fame, and wealth.  The wise king Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 5:10-11: "He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; Nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity. ¹¹ When goods increase, they increase who eat them; so what profit have the owners except to see them with their eyes?"  Whatever you desire the most apart from God, that thing cannot satisfy you.  If you love money, no amount of money will satisfy you.  If you love sex, you will never get your fill.  Many have killed themselves trying.  As King Saul fell on his own sword, millions have been impaled by their own lusts.  The Bible reveals that our satisfaction and salvation is only found in knowing God and trusting in Jesus Christ.  Jeremiah 3:23 says, "Truly, in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains; truly, in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel."  Jesus says in John 11:25-26:  "Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. ²⁶ And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?

Of course Satan lies about Christians too.  He perpetrates the moronic notion that "Christians never have any fun" and "All Christians are hypocrites."  The greatest fun a person can have is to be completely free of all shame, guilt, hate, addictions, and fear.  Christians can look Death in the face because of Christ's sacrifice and say, "You are a defeated enemy.  Christ, my King, has vanquished you.  Eternity for me has already begun."  Fun is knowing the truth, and the Truth has set us free indeed.  All the darkness, demons, and deceptions are revealed and crushed through the True Light who is Christ.  The fact remains that every person, at some level, is a hypocrite.  Satan is the greatest hypocrite of all!  If you cheat on your girlfriend and are mad when she talks to an ex, you are a hypocrite.  A hypocrite is an actor.  Every human being is born with this acting gene because of our sin nature.  We have all played the hypocrite.  It is actually Christ who frees us from being hypocritical.  No Christian I have met (myself included) has claimed sinless perfection.  I have no right to point the finger at anyone.  Christians, more than anyone, should be aware of their sins against God.  That is why we have sought salvation in a Saviour!

Are you sick of dying a little more every day on a frantic search for real life?  Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.  God has saved me from myself and the eternal damnation I deserve by His grace.  Time is short!   Isaiah 55:6-7 says, "Seek the LORD while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon ."  What do you have to lose?  Give God the ashes of your ruined life and He will give you beauty.  Give Him your mourning and He will give you the oil of gladness.  He will give you gladness in place of the spirit of heaviness. (Is. 61:3)  Confess your sin, repent, and trust in Jesus Christ.  It is only in Christ man's joy can be full.

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