Most people think of Christianity as a scale. All of the bad things you've ever done sit on one side, and all of your good deeds sit on the other. In this scenario, life's ultimate goal becomes working to load as many good things as possible on your scale so that by the time you draw your final breath, things lean in the right direction. Most people think they'll wind up sitting pretty in the next world -- if they even believe in a 'next world' -- as long as they can get the scales tilted right.
While this may seem right, the Bible teaches that this is not what life's about at all! God basically says that we could never tilt the scales enough to be found acceptable by Him. But because He loves us so much, He didn't leave us without hope. God says that we can accept what His Son did in dying on a cross for our sin, paying for every bad deed we have ever committed and will ever commit. Then, by the power of His love, we'll be accepted by Him and will spend all of eternity by His side.
Would there be any reason why you wouldn't want to ask Jesus Christ to forgive your sin and to become the strength and power and guide in your life, starting today?
--Bill Hybels in Just Walk Across the Room
#2280
Friday, April 10, 2009
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How interesting that this day's devotion just happens to be the name of the cantata I'll be directing our choir in for next Sunday, April 19. (Published by Lillenas.) Many of the words of your message are the same ones in the musical.
ReplyDeletePraise God!! There are no coincidences!!
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