Today was a great day at church! The worship was amazing and we moved into our new small groups with our new leaders! I cannot say how grateful I am for my leaders! They are people who have known me for years and I can't wait to get to know them. This morning our preacher talked about repentance and having faith. He talked about a verse in Acts that really stood out to me. "I have had one message for Jews and Greeks alike—the necessity of repenting from sin and turning to God, and of having faith in our Lord Jesus." (Acts 20:21) There are two things that you need to do to have genuine TRUE repentance. A lot of the time in the church out repentance is fake. And if you look at things in life there are a lot of fake things fake money, pearls, people, cars etc. The list goes on and on but there is one thing you cannot be fake about and that is your relationship with Jesus Christ. He sees what is on the inside and what is one the outside, but you know what he still loves you! The two things that you must do are repent. That means a change in mind, thought, and actions. You have to recognize your sin and turn from it towards God. The other thing you have to do is have faith! Believe in God cause he is the only one that can save you. Repenting and Having faith will lead to a strong relationship with Christ. In James it talks about having faith with out actions/deed is dead faith. When you turn to God you cannot let your faith be fake, just like many things in this world are fake, make sure you aren't one of them. If you do have faith make sure it is faith with deeds and not dead faith. #checkyoself and make sure that you faith leads you to actions that serve and share our faith with others.
In small group today we talked about Isaiah 40:18, "To whom can you compare God? What image can you find to resemble him?" God created us in his image and He loves us. He does not conform to us we must conform to him. What can you compare God to? God is! God is everything, magnificent, beautiful, loving, and the list goes on and on. God is! There is nothing that we can look at and say that is what God is, because guess what he is everything. We make up all these images in our mind of what God really looks like, but we dont realize that when we do that we are making God like us, not us like God. God can never compare to anything or resemble anything we imagine him looking like. God is God! God is....? (now you fill in the blank)
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