What Does God Desire for You?

Dear friends, how would you answer this question? Does God desire for you to be healthy? Does God desire for you to have your dreams come true? Does God desire for you to have a life of ease and material goods? Does God desire for you to be well thought of?

What does God desire for you? God desires for you and everyone else to be saved! Jesus taught in Matthew 9:12b,13, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick, but go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” God loves you and wants you to be His for all eternity.

There is a great day coming and we need to be prepared (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9). We need the blood of Jesus to wash away our sins (Revelation 1:5; Acts 2:38). That precious blood we encounter when we are baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:16; Galatians 3:27).

Friends, God desires us to be saved and stay saved (1 Corinthians 15:1-3; Revelation 2:10). Where are you today? Have you been baptized in accordance with the commandments of the New Testament? Are you staying faithful to the Lord?

Parents, are you talking to your children about this? The age of accountability (approximately age 12) is very important in our young person’s life. We need to emphasize and encourage our young people to become Christians by obeying the gospel of Jesus Christ. Today is the day of salvation for we know not what tomorrow holds.

“Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead” (Acts 17:30,31).

Stay true to the Word,

Brother Travis