Salvation comes to each of us by belief in Jesus. Many people question this today and many others don’t believe in Him at all. Some don’t even believe He existed but God’s Word doesn’t lie, He came to give His life for all of mankind and He did. Then, three days later, He walked out of the grave and taught for forty days before He ascended to Heaven.
The children recognized Jesus in many ways more deeply and completely than His disciples did. We should come to Him as the children did, with complete child-like faith. Our problem is our adult knowledge and acquired disbelief that many of us have after our time in jobs and life in general. We doubt many things, even Jesus, to the point of needing some kind of “proof”. God’s Word is the proof because He cannot lie but we must believe!
Believing that He existed isn’t enough. There are many historical proofs outside of the Bible that prove He existed and was crucified. Your belief for salvation must come by your heart not just knowledge but spiritually believing that He died for your sins to cleanse you of those sins, no matter how small they may be or even how big they are. He came to bring many people into God’s Kingdom through this kind of belief and when the Holy Spirit convicts you that you NEED Him as your Savior, don’t ignore this conviction. Many people have done so and put it off for years until they died without Him and began serving eternity in punishment because they didn’t believe in Jesus while they could.
Our life here is extremely short compared to one million years and that is just the beginning of eternity. Jesus came to give us Life in eternity with Him, the Creator of all. Eternity is not going to be boring as some think. We will have many things to do for Him and living in His Presence will be far more than I can describe here. More beautiful than the most beautiful place on Earth. Most of the prophets and disciples of Jesus who were given a glimpse of Heaven couldn’t describe it other than saying “it is more than we can imagine”.
Rain forests and mountains on Earth are beautiful but those same places in the presence of God, Who gives life to everything, they would be more green, more alive than they look here. I’ve read some descriptions from people who had near-death experiences that everything in Heaven is more complete in every way. Even after seeing it, they couldn’t give a better description than that. Just like the prophets and apostles who saw a little bit of it, their description from our perspective could not do it justice. Just as a picture of say the Grand Canyon is beautiful but being there and seeing it with your own eyes…can’t compare to a photo.
Seek Him while He can be found in your life today. When the church is taken up, you truly want to be counted in that number. The next seven years after the church is gone will become “hell on Earth” for real and not a movie.
God gave us this planet to live on, with all kinds of food and the families that all of us enjoy. From the very beginning until now, God needs nothing from us but He chose to give us His grace. If you are wondering what else He gives us I’ll try to list a few here:
He makes sure your heart beats every time and He does this for EVERYONE.
He makes sure you can breathe during the night and the day.
He has given each of us the abilities that we have to do our work, for Him and for our family.
But…most of all, He has given us the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ. No other religion offers salvation and forgiveness just by believing in the Person and the Hope of Life that is Jesus Christ. Sometimes we try to help Him “save” us by doing lots of projects and work at the church of our choice but remember this: God made the ENTIRE universe a long time before you or I was born, so He doesn’t need our help. He wants us to be His children and part of His family and that is why He chose us before “the foundation of the world”.
Your name and my name were written in His book of saints before the light was spoken into existence. God has always had each believer in His mind long before we were born.
Today, we are living at a time that is rapidly approaching the end of the church age, the age of Grace. I pray that you will seek to know Him as your Savior soon, because there is coming a time when the Holy Spirit will be taken from the Earth and it will be very hard to give your heart and life to Jesus, much harder than it is today. Seek to know Him and to give your heart to Him today. He loves you and He is waiting for you to open the door.
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