Greetings 👋
Many people who critique Christians lack understanding of the Gospel message.
Christianity is a come-as-you are religion. A person can come to Christ at any stage of life and it doesn’t matter what you did in the past or whether you stumble in the future. What matters is whether you have accepted Jesus, confessed your sins, and turned from the practice of sin. The only thing separating Christians from the lost is whether someone has availed themselves of the free gift of salvation.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 (ESV).
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 (ESV).
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” John 1:9 (ESV).
I’m reading the love scriptures today. What is love and how do we know when it is flourishing in our lives?
Here’s a very special and appropriate scripture for today.
“You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together ...
