Jesus said:  “I am come that you might have life and have life more abundantly!”  We can’t have this life that Jesus is talking about just by pretending that we have it.  We try so hard now a days to look spiritual, I think in an attempt to try and convince others of something that we can’t even convince our-self of!  My relationship with Jesus is the most important thing in my life.  Without this relationship, I am nothing and my life means nothing!  Jesus is more than my salvation – Jesus is my life!  I cannot and I will not try and do life without Him!  Some people will respond to my giving Jesus as the answer to life with:  “But, if you just knew my problem!”  To which I would like to respond:  “If you just knew my Jesus!”  It is time for the people that really know Jesus through a real, personal and meaningful relationship to share Jesus in a real and relevant way.

I am a Christian.  I have a relationship with Jesus!  I love life and I have a good time and that’s more than okay – that’s the way that God has always intended for it to be.  Having a relationship with Jesus is not about restriction, but freedom.  Jesus does not restrict me, Jesus sets me free and I have the power to say no to the things that would rob me of the abundant life that He has for me and yes to the things that would build and grow me into the special person that He has created me to be!

God wants each one of us to have an amazing, abundant and incredible life.  A life that is full of His love, overflowing with grace, mercy, forgiveness and restoration.  I am saved from my sins and from a horrible place called hell.  I am saved for my Savior and for a magnificent place called Heaven.  I am looking forward to Heaven, but until the Lord carries me there, I am going to enjoy the Heaven that is living inside of me!