I have been watching Christian music artist’s video’s. Just as I learned to really listen to the lyrics when I listened to the radio, I see the lyrics flash across the screen as the music plays. These words have driven me to write a little something for the blog.

For the longest time my life was a train wreak!!! But at the bottom of the pit that I had dug, I heard Christ call out to me. Christ…. calling out to me? Look at what I have done! I am a mess! I don’t deserve you even uttering my name! Look Jesus I am broken and bleeding and I am a total loser!!!! “You know that means nothing to Me Todd. Look at my hands and my feet, see the nail holes? See where the crown of thorns poked holes in my forehead? I suffered, so that you would not have to. I died so that you could live. I love you Todd.”

Jesus love me? Some may think like I did, look at what a mess I have made of my life. God could not possible love me. I have not done anything for you to love me. I thought that. I tried to live the Christian life. How do you do that? You don’t and you can’t! PERIOD!!! God allowed me to come to the end of my rope before He opened my eyes to truly see Him. God allowed me to come to the end of my rope before He opened my ears to truly hear Him. My whole being changed, not just “my life,” but my spirit, my heart and my soul. And as they say “the rest is history.”

I have a passion to now tell others. To express to others that what Christ did for me, He will do for ALL HIS CREATION!! I don’t want others to have to come to Jesus Christ like I did. He wants to have a relationship with you, NOW, right where you are at in your life. I carried burdens for far too long. I now know that Christ died in order that I no longer needed to carry ANYTHING ON MY OWN!!!! I write this, and I think that there may be someone that will read this and say to themselves, “yea, right. Carry my burdens. I am doing a good job of that on my own, I don’t need Jesus.” But how truthful are you being? How long ago did these burdens have you crying, angry, depressed? Don’t need Jesus? I can’t show you my life here on paper. I can only write what as actually happened to me, how my life is now going 180 degrees, from where it had been going.

The God of creation, the One that formed you and me in our mother’s womb, loves you. I came to Him completely shattered, broken beyond what I could do to fix me. See that brokenness does not bother Jesus, our Savior. Think about this, if you, and I, were not “broken” how could He fix us. How could He put our lives on the path that He has made for us to walk? He is not here to condemn, like some think He does. He is here to restore, lift up, make new! He did that for me! He did that to me! He desires to do that for you and to you also! OUR Heavenly Father longs to walk beside you, guide you, talk with you. My past, and yours also, is not what God looks at. He is concentrating on your heart now, at your acceptance of Him as your personal Savior.

I still experience pain, sorrow, stormy weather in my life. But now I have the Lord Jesus Christ to run to, the “strong tower,” that is my refuge in the storm. He longs to make room for you, so that He can shield you from this worlds turmoil. He wishes to guide and direct your steps so that when storms appear, you have Him right there so that you can fall into His arms. Don’t let this world and its notions direct you. This world will fade away, but God is eternal. God will never leave you. Take it from me, He will walk with you always. Yes, even in prison. Allow Christ into your heart today. Quit trying to live this life by the worlds rules that are always changing, always elusive, always damaging. Christ is life, and that life is so much more abundant that anything this world has to offer.

Need to talk? Write a comment. Let’s talk. Allow me to further explain how Jesus love you more that you will ever know!