Some of us hear His call early in life and ignore it because we are having fun. I heard His call on my heart and my life as early as 12 years old and I thought I answered it at a crusade in Jackson, MS. But, it didn’t stick. I know now that I wasn’t sincere in my answer to the touch of the Holy Spirit in my heart. I felt it but I didn’t take it seriously. I tried to read the Bible and listened as well as I could in church but found it boring.
I didn’t really have a “come to Me” moment until my son was born. Then, one night at work I was reading the Psalms and I heard a small voice in my mind saying “You are to be his example”. That is a scary thought. I am supposed to be my son’s example of how to live? I knew I couldn’t do that without Jesus in my heart and by truly following Him for the rest of my life, so I asked Him to be my Savior at that moment.
From that point on I’ve had trouble being a follower of Him but I began learning more about being a Christian and it has made a lot of difference in my life. That was twenty years ago and I’m still learning about Him and what it means to be His. Reading the Bible isn’t enough. Praying helps but that’s not enough either. When you do both of them together, the Holy Spirit can show you things while reading that might not have been so clear before.
God loves you and He sent Jesus to take the punishment for our sins. All that you have to do is believe in Jesus and His sacrifice for you, repent of your sinful ways and you will be saved.
Pottery with cracks in it leaks. We are referred to as “clay in the Potter’s hands” by God. So…if you are a Christian and you have been blessed by God with a talent or ability, then leak your grace and His mercy out into the world so others can see the evidence of it. Don’t keep it hidden by not telling what He has done for you. Tell others about His blessings and His mercy toward all of us because the end of the church age is coming soon. It may be another five years or even another decade before it ends but it will end. I don’t know the day nor the hour but the world will know when it happens.
Jesus gave His disciples a command to “go into all of the world and preach the gospel”. That is what we are supposed to be doing with the grace that God has given each of us. We are required to give away that which we couldn’t pay for and to tell others about salvation that can’t be taken away.
Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our pains. Yet we esteemed Him stricken, struck by God, and afflicted. But He was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities. The chastisement for our shalom was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. We all like sheep have gone astray. Each of us turned to his own way. So ADONAI has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. – Isaiah 53:4-6 TLV via TLV Bible App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tlvsource&utm_source=tlv_bible_app&utm_medium=share_verse
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