Meditate on these words as you look at the blood stained cross. I pray it breaks our hearts to see things from God’s standard.
The opposite of a surrendered life, is a self-centered life. Your right, instead of Gods right. There is no gray area with God. That gray area is where Satan camps out to take you out. Yes, if you choose to continue to live life before a Holy God your way, get ready to reap the consequences that come along with it. And don’t blame God, He gave you basic instructions before leaving earth.. The B.I.B.L.E—
Thank our loving God that we are not judged by the Law. I’m sure every one of us have lied, or stolen, used the Lord’s name in vain, not always honoring our mother and father, committed adultery, even if it’s in our mind we did it. If I only even did one of these, I am guilty of them all. I deserve punishment. Jesus came, and is the only One to fulfill the law for us. The only spotless One Who never sinned, and took the punishment for us.
2 Corinthians 5:21, “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him (and in Him only) we might become the righteousness of God.” What an AMAZING truth! “So what should I say, what should I do, but offer this heart oh God, completely to you.” We should “Stand” with arms high and heart abandoned, In awe of the One Who gave it all!
Jesus exchanged our sin for His perfect righteousness, so that we can one day stand before God. We are only accepted as righteous, and treated as righteous by God because of what Jesus did for us on the cross. He credits our imperfectness, for His perfectness. You may be a really good person, believe all you read in the bible. You may go to church every Sunday, listen to Christian radio, and read devotionals. Unless you become a changed person, born again, you are just going through the motions. Motions don’t get us to heaven. Jesus didn’t suffer and die a horrible death for us to just go through motions of what we think might be pleasing to Him. It’s evidence of a changed life, yes and even your thoughts on things you see nothing wrong with. The only way to do that, is to invite Jesus into our life to turn it in the direction He wants us to go. That is God’s standard. This is what He wants us to realize. That we needed a Savior, because only Jesus could meet His Father’s standard for us. We would never be able to do it.
So we could either get right with God by His standard, which is totally surrendering our old life for the truth of Jesus Christ, accepting Him as our Savior, and to live a life that will bring His Father glory. Or we can choose to stay in that gray area where Satan is destroying you, maybe even kill you. He will take your life if you let him.
The only way to heaven is by God’s standard… Only through Jesus Christ His Son, we are made righteous……. 2 Corinthians 5: 17. The old you is gone, the new you has come…….. You choose.
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Kim
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