02/27/2020
PLEASE KEEP OUR FRIEND SUZY IN YOUR PRAYERS. Her dear Mark Beauchamp and our friend has gone to live with Jesus.
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Everytime we are out talking to people about Jesus, someone says, "look at all I'd have to give up to become a Christian, and be converted. I could never have fun and I'd have to follow all these rules."
My answer is that when I was young I was scared of life and I was scared of death—and I gave that up. I was miserable and unfulfilled—and I gave that up. I had a joyless life, always looking for love in all the wrong places -- I gave that up. I had selfish earthly and material ambitions that I could never have achieved—and I gave them up.
Those are some of the worthless things that I gave up. And I soon found out that in Jesus Christ, God had given me everything that is worthwhile and meaningful in life.
In Christ Jesus I have peace, Joy and more fun than anyone should be allowed. I'm not ashamed of who I am now. And I am so grateful for a loving Savior who gave up his very life for us.
