Art for Jesus - in Japan

Last week brother Don on the Pursuers yahoo group wrote this, which I thought really shares His heart here:

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Hi Sisters and Brothers

I hope that this email finds you knowing one thing. Really knowing one thing. One thing that is so simple but can be made so complex by the human minds and emotions. The one thing is which is the most powerful thing in your life and mine is this: That Jesus loves you, not just because the bible tell me so, but he has personally showed us from within. Yes, brother and sisters there are many Christians that don't know that Jesus loves them. There too busy to see it. I have been in that place before and hope to never go there again. It was before I was saved and after I was saved fear rule my heart. There have been some dark times in my life just as there has been dark times in your life. What brought me through it and what continually brings me through it, is knowing that Jesus loves me.

To be able to sit in room by yourself in quiet and to have the Lord show you that he loves you, that he is still in control, that he is Lord of all and then to have him reveal that he loves you is beyond wealth. But the extra is to be able to say out loud to him Jesus I love you and to know that those words that you uttered came about because he showed you he loves you fresh and new. Fresh, alive, today, this moment. WE cannot live off the past of what the Lord has showed us, but we live in the moment with him. His love is alive and fresh and new. It is like a waterfall washing over you, a waterfall that cleanse your heart from the troubles of this world. He is what matters to us and we are what matters to him.

Praise him today for he loves us. You have this treasure in earthen vessel. Which is none other than Christ himself. Love itself lives in us.

Have a day of moments with love itself, a day of moments with Jesus Christ. May he woo us today, break down all our barriers and embrace us. We are his and belong to NO other.

Love
Don