Someone made a comment to me recently that they don't like Christian Blogs because many come off all "high and mighty" and are difficult to relate to on any personal level.
While I cannot say that I won't get "preachy" in future posts (after all anyone who is insistant about what they know to be true, can come across like that sometimes, to some people), I felt compelled to post the following statement:
"I am by no means perfect! I've gotten unjustly angry, prideful, and impatient. I've gotten anxious and I don't always put God at the centre of my life. I don't always treat people with the respect they deserve. I've stolen, lied, and looked with lust. I've dishonored my parents, and have used the Lords name in ways that weren't appropriate. See...Not even close!
What I need to be, what God requires of me, in order to get into heaven and recieve enternal life is Perfection. I can't be perfect by myself, because I am sinful by nature! Just like everyone else, including "YOU"!
Seems like we got a problem! So what are we to do?? God has to punish us or how could he be Just! He can't just let us into heaven or he wouldn't be a very good judge. God loves us enough to punish us for our sins, but he loves us so much that he made us a way out of this terrible dilema!
See we broke the law, now we have a big Fine to Pay! You and I, we'd never be able to even come close to being able to pay that Fine oursleves and our eternal punishment is the only thing that will satisfy the wrath of the perfect Judge. So God sent Jesus, himself, the perfect god-man, wholly God, and wholly man to Pay the Fine. Jesus was the only "man", to live a perfect sinless life. Therefore He is the only one who could possibly pay our fine! He paid it with his life, and in His defeating of death! He took the wrath meant for us! He suffered greatly on the cross for our Salvation, and we can access that gift if we Repent and put our complete Faith and Trust in Jesus Christ."
I would never sit here and make myself out to be a good person. Romans 3:12 says, All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one."
ALL OF THE GOOD IN ME COMES NOT FROM ME, BUT FROM HIM WHO IS IN ME, HE WHO SAVED ME! I AM NOTHING WITHOUT HIM!
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