JUST TELL IT TO JESUS

JUST TELL IT TO JESUS

I was thinking today of how life is such a struggle for many today.  The world is in such a state that people don’t know where to turn when trouble comes.  Even Christians need to be reminded Who to run to when trials come.

As we read the news, walk among people, chat with friends and co-workers we realize that even though people may smile, laugh and appear to have everything under control, they could be “crying” on the inside.  I want to be more sensitive to people around me and their struggles that they carry inside and sometimes they are heavy, heavy burdens.  We need to be reminded that we have a Friend who cares and is concerned about our trials in this walk with the Lord.  He is concerned about our grief, our pain, our sin.  After all, He died for our sins, and carried our grief to the cross, just for you, just for me.

So be reminded, if you feel like you have no one else in this world to share your burdens with, you can “Tell it to Jesus.”

TELL IT TO JESUS

“Are you weary, are you heavy-hearted?  Tell it to Jesus, Tell it to Jesus; are you grieving over joys departed?  Tell it to Jesus alone. 

Tell it to Jesus, Tell it to Jesus, He is a friend that’s well-known.  You’ve no other such a friend or brother, tell it to Jesus alone.

Do the tears flow down your cheeks unbidden” Tell it to Jesus, Tell it to Jesus; have you sins that to men’s eyes are hidden” Tell it to Jesus alone.

Do you fear the gathering clouds of sorrow?  Tell it to Jesus, Tell it to Jesus; Are you anxious what shall be tomorrow?  Tell it to Jesus alone.

Are you troubled at the tho’t of dying?  Tell it to Jesus, Tell it to Jesus, For Christ’s coming kingdom are you sighing?  Tell it to Jesus alone.  (Jeremiah E. Rankin)

If you are weary and your heart is heavy hearted today, and you are grieving over a joy that has departed, come to the God of all Comfort:

“Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, saith your God.  Isaiah 40:1.

“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted by God” II Corinthians 1:3-4.

If you have lost your joy this day and are grieving over something that has happened in your life that took all joy out of your life, and you feel like you can never smile again or have that peace that He brings when tragedy comes into our lives, just tell it to Jesus, He is the friend who will listen and understand and bring joy back into your life again.

When you have sinned against the Lord, and you can’t talk about it with anyone, you can talk to Jesus about it. He died for your sins and for mine.  Just take your sins to the cross and leave them there with Him, for He is faithful.  Just tell it to Jesus.  And let Him cleanse you and bring peace back into your life.

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive u our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” I John 1:9.

And maybe you fear sorrow coming into your life.  You may have a loved one who is near death, and even now you fear the grief of losing that precious one.  You may have spent many days at a bedside, watching, waiting and praying, for you don’t know what tomorrow will bring.  You may be sorrowing over financial needs and don’t know where the next meal will come from.  Listen to Jesus in Matthew 6:25-34, where He reminds us not to worry about tomorrow in verse 34.  Tomorrow will take care of itself.  Just tell it to Jesus, today.  And let Him take care of your tomorrows.

And I asked myself what makes people afraid of dying?  Is it fear of the unknown?  It is unresolved issues in their lives that makes people afraid?  When we have Jesus in our hearts and walk close to Him, it seems to me that heaven is just a step away.  The older I become the closer I am to my heavenly home.  When we make peace with Jesus and let Him work out those other issues in our lives, heaven becomes very real, and is just over the hilltop.  When we open God’s Word and read about heaven, and then we sing those wonderful hymns about heaven, it opens our eyes to the glory that awaits each one of us who walk with Jesus.  I truly believe God puts “heaven” in the hearts of each one of His children to prepare them for their heavenly home. When death comes to the Christian, we have no reason to fear, God is near.  Just tell it to Jesus.

“Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: for we walk by faith, not by sight: we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord” II Corinthians 5:6-8.

Are you sighing for Christ’s coming?  When problems overwhelm us, and our heart is heavy, we so long for Jesus to come back. And for those who are looking for Jesus to come back He has promised a special reward, a “Crown of Righteousness!”

“Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing” II Timothy 4:8.

So, my friends, whatever the issues in your life today, just remember that you have a friend you can go to any time any place, any hour, and He promises in Hebrews 13:5 to never leave you.  What a Wonderful friend we have in Jesus!  Just tell it to Jesus today, He is waiting for you.

In Jesus’ Name,

Pastor Sharon