{"content":[{"text":"Five Words that Can Change Your Life","bbox":{"left":0.292944,"top":0.263906,"width":0.4170480000000001,"height":0.024409999999999987}},{"text":"This year I’ve been meditating on how to make the Presence of Jesus more of a reality in \n my everyday life. I firmly believe that if we knew that God was in us and with us, we \n would not be so afraid, or bored, so lonely, or lost. We would not be seeking pleasure in \n sinful ways, or stuffing our selves full of food or spending our money on more and more stuff, or \n looking for love in all the wrong places. Our lives would be rich and meaningful and full of \n purpose and direction. Jesus told us, “I have come that they might have life and have it \n abundantly (John 10:10).”","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.3225,"width":0.8265290000000001,"height":0.125363}},{"text":"But truth be told, most of us, even as believers, don’t live in that reality. Before Jesus left this \n world and his disciples to ascend into heaven, he said five words that changed their lives. He \n said, “I am with you always.” (Matthew 28:20)","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.461742,"width":0.809922,"height":0.055818000000000034}},{"text":"Let’s look at these five simple words more closely and see how they can change us too.","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.531439,"width":0.759765,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"He said, “I am with you always.” Who exactly is making this claim? Jesus says this after his \n resurrection and the disciples now are starting to get the big picture. He is not just their friend, \n their companion, their teacher. Nor is he a religious leader or future king of Israel. Jesus proved \n that he is the Son of God. He is the great I AM. He is the one who is omniscient, and \n omnipresent. He is sovereign, he is love, and he is good. It is HE who promises that He is \n with us always. The disciples realized, if God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31).","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.566288,"width":0.832117,"height":0.10805999999999993}},{"text":"How about you, dear ones? If you knew He, the great I AM, is always Present with you, \n what would you fear? How would you change? What would be different in the way you \n lived today?","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.688333,"width":0.809765,"height":0.055711999999999984}},{"text":"Not only is Jesus declaring that the great I AM is with us, but that he IS with us, right \n here, right now. He doesn’t say He will be with his disciples sometime in the future, or later on \n in Heaven but he said “I am (present tense) with you always. If you believed that Jesus is \n with you right now, what difference would that make in the choices you make today? \n How would you feel differently?","bbox":{"left":0.082352,"top":0.75803,"width":0.822079,"height":0.090561}},{"text":"Jesus told his followers that “I am with YOU always.” Each individual is important to God \n and he will never leave or forsakes us (Hebrews 13:5). He is at our right hand (Psalm 16:8). His \n Presence is promised. Paul speaks of that great mystery, Christ in us (Colossians 1,2). The \n reality of that promise is not our biggest problem in our spiritual journey.","bbox":{"left":0.082352,"top":0.8625,"width":0.827059,"height":0.07308999999999999}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.073337,"top":0.045585,"width":0.857972,"height":0.194994}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.073337,"top":0.045585,"width":0.857972,"height":0.194994}]}