“Come to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads, and I will give you rest” Matthew 11:28 (NCV)

As long as Jesus is one of many options, he is no option.

As long as you can carry your burdens alone, you don’t need a burden bearer. As long as your situation brings you no grief, you will receive no comfort. And as long as you can take him or leave him, you might as well leave him, because he won’t be taken half-heartedly.

But when you mourn, when you get to the point of sorrow for your sins, when you admit that you have no other option but to cast all your cares on him, and when there is truly no other name that you can call, then cast all your cares on him, for he is waiting in the midst of the storm.

By Max Lucado
From: The Applause of Heaven
Used by permission

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Further Reading

•  Come Alongside – by John Fischer
•  Sample Prayers
•  Salvation Explained

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“..I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.  I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”’  John 10:10-11

Cora was only fifteen.  But she needed to work to support her widowed mother and family. Three years later her mother died.  Cora worked even harder to keep her five siblings together. One by one they graduated and went off on their own.  Then Cora was alone for the first time in her life.  She felt her purpose for living was gone.

Cora took pills to lift her mood, but her depression got worse.
She gave up on life, overdosed and woke up in the hospital.
By her bedside was a Bible. She began reading the book of John. Cora saw how much God truly loved her. She prayed and gave her burdens and her heart to Jesus.  She left the hospital with a brand new purpose for living!

Oh, friend, God can, and will, give you a new outlook on life.

By Vonette Bright
Used by Permission

Further Reading

•   Father God’s Intimate Love Letter to You
•  God is my Delight
•  Salvation Explained

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