Look Up Your Salvation is near

Look up...your Salvation draws near...

Feel like I'm a nobody

Wonder if I'll ever amount to much

Seems like no matter what I do

It's never gonna be enough

Should I just give up?

Lord, I need to hear You speak

Tell me I am loved

Tell me I am known

That You died for me

I am not alone

Tell me I'm Your child

The one Your heart beats for

I can find my strength

Knowing I am Yours

You've always known what my heart needs

And You tell me

You wrote Your name upon my heart

You knew me before my life began

You still have a plan

And when I'm starting to forget

Jesus, You tell me who I am

Who I am

You tell me I am loved

Tell me I am known

And that You died for me

I am not alone

You tell me I'm Your child

The one Your heart beats for

I will find my strength

Knowing I am Yours

You've always known what my heart needs

And You tell me, oh

Your voice has the power to heal the hurt inside

Your voice speaks the truth, brings my heart back to life

I am loved

Oh, I am known

You tell me I am loved

Tell me I am known

That You died for me

I am not alone

You tell me I'm Your child

The one Your heart beats for

I will find my strength

Knowing I am Yours

You've always known what my heart needs

And You tell me

Lord, You tell me

Oh, You tell me

You tell me, oh

I am not sure who needs to hear these words this morning by Carrollton, but they are here now.  I have to be honest with you all, there's been many times I go back to this song for some reassurance.  Life is hard, it's difficult it seems more times than it's not. Either that or we're just used to remembering what all didn't go right in our eyes more than what was good. 

Even among the greats of the early Church, they all had good days and had bad ones.  Nobody's immune to them.  Peter and Paul had times when they were wrong and needed to be told as much. 

Sin in this world is what makes life as hard as it is.  There's only one cure and yes, it's through Christ Jesus. Only when the power of God is present in the life of a believer can sin's power be broken.  

Politics, treaties, elections, viruses all are powerless before the God of the Universe with whom we all have to give an account.  Political opinion will mean nothing when you stand before Christ.  Nothing we value in this life that's of this world will mean anything before Jesus in that day.  The only question requiring the right answer is: are you written in the Lamb's Book of Life?  "I hope so, because I am a good person" isn't going to cut it. Jesus is the only answer.  Giving your life to Christ isn't losing it, nor giving up on living it, it's finding it.

If you are overwhelmed, stop and ask yourself why.  Is Jesus in your life or is He not even a part of it?  If you are looking down on those who do believe in Christ, why?

He loved you enough to die for you.  Sin will kill you.   Sin, apart from Salvation in Christ Jesus, will indeed send you to Hell.  That's the barest truth.  Salvation in Christ brings forgiveness of sins and those people are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.  

You look for peace in this world and you will never find it.  It's not found in sports, in movies,  hobbies, people, nothing. 

It's only found when that God shaped hole in your heart is filled with Christ.