Category: Believe like a child

I gave blood…


This morning I gave blood to Mississippi Blood Services. I gave two units of blood because it was needed and I could live without it for a while. Life is in our blood and many people get into serious trouble when they don’t have enough and can’t get a compatible unit. My blood type is not the most useful like O-negative is but it will help someone.

Our Savior gave His blood to cover all of our sins and He paid the penalty for all of our sins. So why do we seem to trivialize His sacrifice? Why do we do this? Is it possible that we look at the time that has gone by since His sacrifice and think it doesn’t matter anymore? God planned this before He created the Garden of Eden so it has to have significance for all of us.

Our society in the last forty years or so has moved away from our Christian beliefs. I’m not saying that our country isn’t “Christian” anymore but the respect that our society at large once gave to being a Christian isn’t there anymore. It doesn’t mean the same that it once did and to many people it doesn’t mean anything at all. Jesus came to pay our penalty with His blood and with His life and He did this willingly. Even though it broke His heart to see His people turn away from the salvation that He was offering them. I’m sure it still breaks His heart to see how the world has turned against Christians and Christianity too.

I pray that anyone who reads this will read the New Testament and seek out Jesus as your Savior before the time is up. Life is short and in our world today, life doesn’t seem to mean nearly as much as it once did. God made it simple, just believe in Jesus and what He did for your salvation and you will be saved. Don’t just read it in a book or get baptized because your friends are doing it. It has to be a real commitment…complete and real in your heart. If it’s just something you decided to do that isn’t enough.

Learn from God’s Word…


Many times people give their life to Jesus Christ but they aren’t taught how to access the Armor of God. Through study and prayer you can do all things through Christ and be prepared for the schemes of the devil.

God gave His Son for us!


Today is the day!


Do you know if you will be alive tonight? Not one of us is guaranteed even the next minute of life. Tomorrow is not guaranteed for any of us, regardless of our health. Do you know if you are saved through the grace of God in Jesus Christ? If you can’t answer that positively and boldly right now then you need to seek Jesus Christ and get that taken care of soon. God loves each of us but our sinful ways and lifestyles He can’t tolerate. That is why we are changed when the Holy Spirit comes into hour hearts. We become a new person in Jesus Christ. Sin doesn’t have us in chains anymore but we can still fall and fail to follow Jesus even after we’ve asked Him into our hearts.

Are churches full of “hypocrites”? Yes, but they are saved hypocrites. If you see someone living sinfully after they have been “saved” and they don’t seem to care about their sinful living then it is possible that they are not saved at all. The problem that we have in this world is that Satan has made it too easy for some people. They think they are saved by going to church or getting baptized or they’ve been in the church for many years so they are okay. But they’re not. If the Holy Spirit hasn’t convicted you and brought you to the cross and forced you to see how sinful you are then your “salvation” doesn’t mean anything.

I did it myself. I went down to a meeting where an evangelist was preaching and then told my pastor about it and I got baptized but it wasn’t real. I “felt” something when I went down and it might’ve been conviction from the Holy Spirit but I didn’t recognize it for what it was. Many people in church have done this and are living in this condition but they think they are saved. Yes, salvation comes through our belief in Jesus Christ and what He did for us but many people only have knowledge of Him but they are not known by Him. It doesn’t sound like much difference but the difference is between life in Heaven or being tortured in hell.

I pray that most of you know Jesus and are known by Him. Hell was not made for humanity but for Satan and the angels he deceived into rebellion, yet he has made sure that much of humanity will be there for eternity by using religion to deceive many. Christianity is a relationship with Jesus. It is not a religion. Believe in Jesus and His work on the cross to save you and ask Him to forgive you for waiting so long and follow Him every day, reading the Bible and learning more about Him. Don’t wait because you are not assured of tomorrow.

Go to the world…


Only through belief in Him


Forgiveness


Be grateful that God doesn’t stay angry with us because all of us deserve it. God loves us which is why He sent Jesus to pay the penalty for our sins.

The ripple effect


Where does your ripple stop? Every word that we say in this life affects someone else. Sometimes, someone in our family or nearby hears what we say and it touches them. For good or bad, it has touched their soul and the ripple effect goes on from there. We may never know how far it goes in this life but in the life to come, we will find out what our words did.

If you look at the Gospels and see how Jesus taught His disciples and the things that He did, the ripple effect is evident. The church began with those twelve disciples and the letters that they wrote about Him and what He did. Then they took their experience of Jesus and used His name to heal people and tell them about His Kingdom. They told everyone who would listen about His love for them and that it was the love of God that sent Him to provide a way of salvation through belief in Him. Love is the key and without it, you can’t open the door to eternity.

We live our lives going through so many motions of acceptance and rejection, yet we are also looking for something that sometimes takes years for us to realize what it is. Some of us are given this answer when we are young and some only find it after heartache and pain. Many Christians seem to question whether they have found it or not. Why? Because they look around them and see all of the problems and wonder when will God fix this, will it be fixed in my lifetime or not?

It is not for us to know the time when God will fix the world because He will do it in His time. It is God’s timing that we should look for and be patient in waiting for Him to do His will. As Jesus told His disciples “Do not worry about tomorrow” because worry is practical atheism. You can do nothing about tomorrow because it isn’t here yet. Do God’s will today and seek to do His will today because only God knows tomorrow and what is in it.

We have a Helper!


‭Romans‬ ‭8:26‬ ‭KJV‬ [26] Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. https://bible.com/bible/1/rom.8.26.KJV

We need to ask!