Trinity Vineyard Church Nakuru

Humility Keeps living in hope that draws us into tomorrow and allows us to sleep in peace through the chaos of the meantime. Because we can fully depend on God. God coming as a child was him making a decision to tie His peace to ours. Deciding to make our experience his own and if we are not going to have peace he will not have peace. He will stop at nothing short of bringing peace to all men. Its such a beautiful picture of a baby fast asleep despite the chaos around him. Because babies trust that they are safe in the arms of those who love them. We can also trust that we are safe in the arms of a father who loves us.

Hope is to our souls what oxygen is to our bodies. Hope draws us into the future. Our Souls desperately need hope to even desire to see tomorrow where our today is our past, or at least we are better equipped to live. And God is inviting us to a future where he is King, where He is with us, a future where our souls are satisfied. But to get there we will need hope. But unless hope resonates with us, it does not hit home. and God knows that. So He was humble enough to become human so that the hope he offers can be the story of every human being. God is humble enough to become human so that we can stare into his face as he says, "Hey, you and I, we are going to make it" God's story is our story. God's story is our Hope.

Eventually, we all look like the person or the thing we love. As we fall in love with Jesus the Holy Spirit transforms us to be like him. When we become like Jesus we will be led to love the church and love the world. And love led Jesus to spend his life for us and even give it up. The currencies with which we spend our lives are our time and money. Service and generosity. Both of which have to be intentional and consistent.

Human beings we are not only not good at loving others we are terrible at receiving love. Even when God is with us and our hearts are aware of God we sometimes just push him away. Even though our Souls are wired for love we fear intimacy and we can get too busy. This Sunday we talk about the things that make us fear moving closer to God. Jesus response to all the walls we put up always is, there is nothing to fear. Because he knows that we can and will experience the most freeing love in him.

We are bound to Him by that everlasting loving kindness with which He has drawn us. Consequently, this means that God is bound to us by His everlasting loving kindness with which He has drawn us. This He decreed.

As God invites us into his love, there is one warning being given and that is; terms and conditions do not apply. God's love for us is not dependent on anything in our past, present or future. Nothing can distract us enough to make God not love us. Not doubt, not religion, not politics, nothing. You can never sink love enough to make God uncomfortable with loving you. You will never rise too high for God to love you. Simply, this is the kind of love where terms and conditions do not apply.

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Somehow in us, we get it. Love gives up everything. We have sacrificed things for love ourselves. Love sacrifices everything possibly even life itself. But no one dies for their enemy. Now for a righteous man, some might, even though rare. No one would die for a sinner, for a bad person. Think of Hitler and Stalin, and all the people who have caused you pain. Jesus died for them too. Think about yourself, when you were still a sinner and an enemy of God, he died for you. Only Love is bold enough to sacrifice everything.

Only love is bold enough to make creation with so much value. Human beings have intrinsic value that can neither be given or taken away by our laws, culture or socio-economic status. Only Love is bold enough to trust completely and so God trusts us with everything he puts in our hands. Only love is bold enough to give freedom when it is easier to control, manipulate and hold back. Love is Gold enough, God is bold enough.

God knows exactly how to speak love to us. God knows exactly how to speak love to you. Embrace God’s love for you. And it does not have to make sense to other people. If you experience God's love in a certain way, embrace it. If someone does not get it, that is their business. Jesus was fond of stopping everything to pay attention to one person and would look at them with compassion. To this day, Jesus still stops everything to make one person aware of his love. So embrace the different ways in which you experience God's love.

Pastor Joshua Nyamu of Mavuno Church Nakuru Campus takes reminds that when our backs are up against the wall, our faith is renewed. That at the end of the pain, we will still see God's glory