There are times when "real life" gets you down. A few examples would be: When the wife and the kids are all sick and you feel it coming down on you as well. When the bills are due and there is no money to pay them. When you are swamped at work and your boss sarcastically puts more work on you (and even smiles while doing it). When you are lied to, cheated, DE-friended and belittled. And oh, yes, you can't even seem to find just one friend.
And then there is Jesus...
John, Chapter 10 (WEB)
7 Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. 10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. 13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; 15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. 17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. 18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”
Jesus cares when no one else does. This is a FACT!!! He loves me when no one else does. And HE will be with me until the end and beyond. He proved it by suffering and being killed for the things that I have done wrong (sin). And all I have to do is to believe, repent, confess and be baptized for the remission of my sins. My lifetime faithfulness to God will be rewarded with an eternal reward of HEAVEN!!!
This is REAL LIFE!!!