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10/7/2016

Life Lessons From John The Apostle

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What three lessons can we learn from John’s life?
Before we knew Christ, some of us were definitely not good little boys and girls. Gamblers, thieves, divorcees, other miscreants and violators of the Ten Commandments. We all did something we are not proud of.
1. No matter what we had done in the past; if we give everything of ourselves to Jesus, He will make something wonderful from us.
We are a people filled with rough edges and are not worthy of God’s Mercy and Grace. It is through God’s Mercy that He sent us Jesus so that we could be receivers of God’s Grace. John gave himself freely to Jesus and through the years became the example of love. He must have been a hard mold to break but John had a long life to learn of Jesus everlasting love and patience. Once we give ourselves over to Christ, He takes the clay that we are and remolds us into His body. Every piece of our very heart that is turned over becomes new in Him and our past iniquities are forgiven. We are redefined as God’s inheritance and given new life.    
 
Because we are unworthy, we can never fully understand the reasoning behind why God would still love us. Even in our lowest moments and our sinful lives, Jesus loves us.
2. Jesus loves us even as we are is a truth that we should never get over.
Just because we know that Jesus loves us, we should not take it for granted. Just because He loves us does not mean that we can go on living in our sinful ways. We should never forget that Jesus sacrificed Himself for our sinful nature and we should strive to emulate Christ in His Godly ways while forgoing our sinful past.
 
The older we get, the more set in our ways we are, the more we want to relax, some decide to leave the missions to the young and only give Christian advice to the parents and not concern themselves with the youth. Because we are older, traditions are well settled in us and we cannot escape them without force sometimes.
3. No matter how old we may be, God can use us to accomplish great things.
 I do not care if you are 13, 30, 60, or even 90, God will use you on His time and for whatever purpose He has set aside for you. John lived to be 100 and had to be carried into the church sometimes to speak. Here is the best part: His messages were all about God’s Love and how we should emulate it. He never stopped speaking about Jesus and changing souls for Christ.
These were lessons from the life of John. We have seen Christ through Andrew, Peter, and John, so next up is James, the other “Son of Thunder”.

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