The gospel costs nothing. We cannot buy
it or earn it. It can only be received as a free gift, compliments of God’s
grace. So it costs nothing, but it demands everything. And that is where most
of us get stuck -- spiritual no-man’s-land. We’re too Christian to enjoy sin
and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We’ve got just enough Jesus to be informed, but
not enough to be transformed.
We want everything God has to offer
without giving anything up. We want to buy in without selling out. We’re afraid
that if we don’t hold out on God, we’ll miss out on what this life has to
offer. It’s a lie. It’s the same lie the serpent told Adam and Eve in the
garden. God is not holding out on you.
You can take Psalm 84:11 to the bank: “No good thing does God withhold from those
who walk uprightly.”
If you don’t hold out on God, I can
promise you this: God will not hold out on you. But it’s all or nothing.
It’s all
of you for all of Him.
-- Mark Batterson in “All In: You Are One Decision Away from a
Totally Different Life”
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