Mixed Messages

The world says: "You NEED more, more stuff, bigger, badder, more things to be happy."

Jesus says: "Be satisfied in Me."

The world says: "Be afraid, Don't go to Africa, Do not adopt, Be filled with fear - fear of ash in the air, fear of parasites, fear of disease, fear of violence, fear of traveling, fear, fear, fear."

Jesus says: Romans 8:15 (New American Standard Bible)

For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!"

The world says: "Don't step out in faith, you may fall and be embarrassed."

Jesus says: Romans 1:17

For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."

The world says:  "Remember the a bad things you have done."

Jesus says:  Psalm 103:12 (New Living Translation)

He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.

Today I am choosing to listen to Jesus!