Author’s note: If you are new to my blog and are interested in reading the 23.xx series, please first read the 23.01 through 23.09. Consider how I arrived where I am and maybe we’ve crossed spiritual paths. I am impassioned by Jesus Christ’s teaching of the “Narrow Way” or “Narrow Gate” (Matthew 7:13-14) and, in love, my posts are focused on driving your attention to that critical truth. Thanks to my daughter for creating my new header art.
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Are you ready for your Day in Court?
Nearly 190,000 people die per day, young, old, from everything that you may see the signs coming or not. Accidents happen as well as succumbing to conditions from aging. As Psalm 90:12 requests of God to “Teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.”
I am more aware than ever the conditions of many of those I encounter
- One prepares his family for his final worldly instructions and preparation to settle things as best possible.
- One recently discovered his sister has lung cancer that has metastasized into her lower body.
- One suffers from unexpected heart palpitations, forcing him to change his lifestyle.
- One goes into surgery.
- One’s brother is recovering from heart surgery that also resulted in parts of several internal organs to be removed, complicating the recovery.
- One suffers from neuropathy of his hands and already has difficulty rising from falls.
- Others express concerns for health problems with aging
- One dies after a recent notice he had gone into hospice.
- One person is showing signs of losing her sense reality.
- Even more mundane events capture my attention such as a those who go on a long family road trip for the weekend.
For all those I know and encounter who admit they do not read much, much less read my blog posts, I have not yet attained the sense of boldness I desire to in communicating the Gospel verbally. Writing this blog is a surrogate for proclaiming God’s plan for forgiveness of sin and salvation but I know that Christ is concerned for each and everyone as He is about you.
My personal desire is that all come to a saving faith in the Lord Jesus and that professing Christians are secure in truth regarding God’s Grace, that they are certain about Jesus Christ’s admonition to be “born again” and what that includes.
Come to know the faith-based way explained by Christ’s teachings in the Gospels, which are pointed to throughout the OLD and NEW Testaments.
A real faith involves trust in Christ, not only knowledge or His works.
Simply, you must Repent from Sin (not merely confess your sin, but turn away from them in newness of Life) and place your trust in the Resurrected and Living Lord Jesus Christ, the sinless Son of God who died for your sins on a Cross and was bodily Resurrected from the Dead on the Third Day.
A CRITICAL MISSING COMPONENT
Most professed Christians suffer from an unchanged heart. They lack a heart that suffers from Godly sorrow, an earnest sorrow, one that understands the need for a divine Savior. Godly sorrow stems from the realization our sins are against the One who loves us the most, and that is the catalyst for change. It does seem that the greater the conviction is of a guilty heart, the greater the awareness of the Holiness of God and the greater sweetness of His mercy and forgiveness.
GETTING PREPARED
A Christian who is steeped in the Scripture as the authoritative instruction from God, should strive to understand how to help with the task of helping others discover their need for the Savior. Like a good lawyer, a Christ-centered person will prepare you or direct you to get the counsel needed to prepare you for your day in court.
You expect your lawyers to be experienced in the case they must defend you in. You have to rely on your counsels to have studied the case law and know in what situations, if any, the judge will show mercy. That’s why you need to understand the Bible or consult with someone who understands it and not hide the truth found within it.
That Day in court will be the most important and pivotal point in your life.
I implore you set out for victory by getting right with the God, through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Upon your acceptance of God’s gift is His eternal forgiveness of your sins.
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FINAL THOUGHTS
I pray that you are earnest so that God will bless you with a new “born again” spirit and new desires, including a longing to know Him.
He loved us enough to suffer and die for us, taking upon each of our sins while suffering the agony of the Cross. Even while we were yet unworthy, He took the punishment of each and every one who will accept His substitutionary punishment for them.
Learn about God through the Church (the Body of Christ) and through the Bible.
Discover God’s will for your life.
It’s never too soon to accept God’s gift of Grace.
Seek the Narrow Way. Wide is the path to destruction.
CKY
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