Worthy is the Lamb- What Does That Even Mean?

I know what you’re thinking. How doesn’t she understand that cliché, BUT people I struggle. I graduated and did not get the high-paying dream job I felt I deserved, then there are family issues, then I spend four days in the hospital and experience the most pain I have ever felt and am still paying for that visit.  All while I am living in a state I had never ever been to before with the nearest family member is five states over. When your life is hard it is so easy to believe that you are too far gone for God. I have crazy thoughts, I am really busy and I am surviving. I knew God wanted to know me, I promise I Knew that much, but I didn’t know I wanted/needed to know him.

 Do you have a bad best friend? Someone who has been in your life forever who you used to have all these memories with, who didn’t call on your birthday or refuses to answer your phone calls, but because of everything you have been through with this person you love them so much. For the majority of my life I feel like I was that bad best friend to God. He kept calling I wouldn’t answer, he kept trying to hang out, but I had other friends I wanted to hang out with. I didn’t understand God. Now, this is one of those times when I am like “come on Nelly” you knew all along what Jesus BLATANTLY told us to do.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”- Mathew 16:24

I hope you didn’t begin reading this hoping to feel warm and fuzzy because while yes God is a loving God, he is also a real God, who wants to know the real you, not the “o God thank you for this day you.”

“For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and Godly lives in this present age.” – Titus 2:11-12

So you remember earlier in this blog when I was saying; o I didn’t get the job I deserved, and O I wanted it to be this way but it went this way or poor me I went to the hospital (and actually ended up being perfectly fine) did you want to slap me? Because WORTHY IS THE LAMB!  Listen to me when I tell you all the little things the jobs, the boyfriends, the bad bosses, the low income none of that is your biggest problem, your biggest problem is death. And Jesus came and solved that problem. If someone died for you right now and left you a note, wouldn’t you kind of do whatever they asked you to do in that note? Especially if it was in your best interest! Well Jesus asked to say no to worldly possessions, and yes to seeking him and having a heart for him! So by God who is with me?