Changing Colors

With Fall in the air, the beautiful golds, reds, and yellows are showing up everywhere as the leaves reach their peak in changing colors. What happens to the leaves when they change colors? Why do they do this? When the days grow shorter and there is less sunshine, the leaves do not get all of the nutrients they need to stay alive, therefore they start dying. It is during this process that they change colors and then fall to the ground, to be raked up, burned, or mulched to nothing. Then the new leaves will take their place.

We are alot like these leaves in our lives we live. When we come to know Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we change to a new creation. We give up our old ways of life and start living new lives. When we get to our peak of not being able to live without Christ, without the light of God, then we will hopefully call on the name of Jesus and be born again. That old man and our old ways will fall off and be forgotten by Christ, and our new man will begin to blossom and grow. And as long as we stay in the light (with Christ) we will continue to grow, but it is when we get away from that life, that our colors start changing and we fall, only to be trampled down, and beat down and mulched to nothingness.

Have you ever felt that way? Well maybe it is time you got back on the path, the path leading you to eternal salvation with the Lord Jesus Christ, so that your leaves will not wither and die, but will always have more than enough light to survive whatever the world can throw at you. Get back into the word of God and make Jesus Lord over your life instead of the things of this world. AMEN!

And if you have never been on that path, then stop right where you are right now, and pray this simple prayer of salvation, so that you too can experience the wonderful life God has for you through His Son Jesus Christ.

Lord, I am a sinner, I come to you and ask for forgiveness of my sins, I believe Jesus that you died on that cross for me and that your blood covered all of my sins. Lord, come into my heart, I will confess you before men, and make you Lord over my life. Teach me your ways Lord, and keep me on your path. Holy Spirit come alive within me, lead, guide and direct me in all of the ways of the LORD. AMEN!

2 Cor. 5 v 17...Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new........

Romans 6 v 4....Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.....

Romans 6 v 7....But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.....

Ephes. 4 v 24....and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness....

Col. 3 v 9-10.....Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.....

Romans 10 v 9-13....that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame." for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him, for "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved".......

It is never too late, to keep your leaf from falling off God's tree of life. I believe He is calling each of us now more than ever in this world of troubled times, to share His love with others. Don't just sit and wait on the leaves around you to fall, share with them the nourishment of the Light that lives within you. AMEN!

Neta