Selfless Faith

In Matthew 8:19-20, Jesus is having a brief conversation with a scribe:

¹⁹ Then a certain scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.”
²⁰ And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”

Be careful my beloved friends and family, brothers and sisters in Christ. The love we have for our Lord Christ Jesus can allow us to make vows to God feeling that we have to in order for Him to love us back. Remember, He loved us first and will always love us. When we make a vow to God, we must keep it. We cannot turn away from a vow or covenant with God. When we tell God we are going to do something, He expects us to do it. If we change our mind, it will break His heart. That is why when the scribe told Jesus he will follow Him where ever He goes, Jesus basically asked him in a statement, are you willing to go through what I will be going through. It is beautiful to make vows to God because we love Him, but don’t make them if they will later become a burden.

This article was written around November 15, 2009 and was revised and finalized on January 9, 2010 by my parents in Haiti, faithful bond servants of Christ Jesus, called upon by He Himself, to leave all behind and go to back to Haiti to share His Good News, the Gospel of salvation, freedom, repentance, and life eternally. As we all know, two days later, January 11, 2010, a devastating earthquake shook the land of Haiti, but also shook the lives of souls and spirits around the world. The LORD be with you in reading this.

I have a dream. I have been walking with this dream and been convicted of this in my heart. I would love to see one day, whether I am here on earth or looking down from above that all the spiritual walls being torn down, and we all united together in the name of Christ to carry out His will; the day that we no longer hold these preconceived notions about one another, but can look at each other as Christ sees us.

This separation that we have put together to carry out our own will is not what God intended when His only Son was sacrificed as a lamb for our sins to set us free from the burdens of death. There are so many religions, so many alliances being formed either for profit or based on misconceptions and manipulations of the Word of God to satisfy our own self interests. Continue reading

Paul says in Acts 21:13, “What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

With the certainty that Jesus gives us, and the love that He has for us, those who truly believe and completely trust in Him have no limitations to sharing the gospel. Many people reject it, but some do accept Christ into their lives after hearing the love that Christ has for them. As Paul expresses he becomes all things to all men with the hope of winning a few for Christ Jesus. At times, we will be persecuted, ridiculed, even attempts to hurt us because we share the love of Christ to the world. Let us share the same assurance and confidence that Paul has in Christ and live without fear or limitations. It is a beautiful love story how Christ died for our sins while we were still sinning; we should be honored to live without limitations, even including death, for His name, His life, and for the fact that He still lives today!

Matthew 8:30-32 reads:

³⁰ Now a good way off from them there was a herd of many swine feeding. ³¹ So the demons begged Him, saying, “If You cast us out, permit us to go away^[d] into the herd of swine.”
³² And He said to them, “Go.” So when they had come out, they went into the herd of swine. And suddenly the whole herd of swine ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and perished in the water.

It is a shame that we will go our entire lives being possessed by demons and living our lives in sin. We have a wonderful, merciful, gracious, redeemer who is literally dying to remove our transgressions far from us, to make us clean, to make us pure, yet we steady allow ourselves to die in our sins. The pigs did not allow themselves, even for a minute, before they killed themselves. They would rather be dead than demon possessed. Jesus wants to kill our flesh so we can follow Him, and to worship God in spirit and in truth, to save us and redeem us, so we can be granted eternal life. Let us allow Jesus Christ to kill our flesh and live in the spirit of God so we can truly live to please our Father.

Matthew 8:3 reads Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Jesus is always willing to cleanse us of our sins and lift up the burdens of this world away from us. However, the question will always be are we willing to be cleansed? We call on the name of God to heal us, but when He knocks at our door, we never answer it. If we have Jesus standing out in the cold and we do not let Him in, then our prayers cannot be answered nor can we be cleansed. Jesus wants to make us whole, the masterpiece we were created to by when God created us, but due to our sin, we never had the tools to paint that masterpiece. Jesus is willing to give us the tools to paint the masterpiece. He is the tools that we need. That is the reason we cannot complete ANYTHING without Him as our Lord and Savior.