“Never Ending”

Colossians 3:3, 5

For you died when Christ died, and your real life is hidden with Christ

in God.  So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you.  (NLT)

     Our merciful Lord God left the glory of Heaven to be born into this sin-filled world as a man of flesh and blood so He could do for us what we could not do for yourselves—to save us from eternal Hell.  Jesus shed His perfect blood as the final sacrificial Lamb of God, which cleansed the world of its rebellion against our holy God.  When you accept the death of Jesus as your own death to sin, you are born again into a new life wearing Jesus' robe of righteousness.  So when the Father sees you now, He sees the righteousness of His Son and you will remain holy in God’s sight until your sanctification is complete.  Jesus died for the sins of mankind so we would have the Way to escape God’s final wrath and condemnation.  But the most amazing part of this undeserved gift of salvation is that Jesus defeated sin and death for us and just as He was resurrected from the grave into a new eternal body and was taken up into the glory of Heaven, so, too, will all believing Christians.

    God had the plan for man’s redemption before the foundation of the world was made. God wants no one to miss out on the glory of Heaven—He wants no one to suffer the eternal agony of Hell.  God is holy and perfect and we must also be holy and perfect if we want to live in His Presence forever.  And the only way we can come into God's Holy Presence, my friends, is through Jesus Christ our risen Lord God.   Our holy God cannot be in the presence of sin, much like light and darkness cannot share the same time and space.  This is why we all need the covering of the Son, for it is through His sacrificial death that we have been reconciled with the Father. There is no better offer than the gift of salvation, and there is no other Way to escape the wrath of God’s final judgment.  And there is no better way to glorify the One who created you and then came to earth and saved you, than by trading your old life of sin for a new life in Him. 

                                                              

                                   A Whisper of Hope

Die with Me, dear child…and live your new life close to Me, for I give graciously and generously. Don’t let this evil world tempt you away from Me, for I know you are weak and unable to stand on your own.   I have made it so you could walk in My Presence anytime and anywhere, so put on My robe of righteousness and truly live!

Ephesians 1:4

Long ago, even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ

to be holy and without fault in His eyes.  His unchanging plan has always been

to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ.  

And this gave Him great pleasure.  (NLT)

                 So now we can rejoice in our wonderful 

                     new relationship with God.

                             (Romans 5:11)