Psalm 8:4
"What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?"
And the son of man that You visit him?"
That verse keeps going trough my head today. Who am I God that you even give thought to me? I have done so much and have at times strayed so far away from Him...I guess it's just hard for me to fathom that God would still want me back. I'm spiritually lazy, and I seem to be in a constant battle; getting close to God, then wandering away,then repeat. I feel very unworthy to allow God to use me, but I just need to realize that no matter how "good" I am, my greatest efforts, compared to what Christ did for us, doesn't really amount to much of anything. I have to realize that I am just the messenger. My Job is to allow God to use me. I haven't been doing that...at least not consistently. I should be sharing the Good News of Christ. How can I be so lazy and selfish to not tell others about God? That's like being in a plane that's crashing, and not sharing the extra parachute. There is always at least a small percentage of us that does things for a selfish motive because of our sin nature, but God still uses us in spite of our selfishness. So I will start ...again today.
Here's the truth of the Gospel that I learned how to explain on a mission trip:
The Bible has some good news and some bad news.
The bad news is something about us.
The Good new is something about God.
Let's talk about the bad news first.
1. We are all sinners-
Romans 3:23- "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
The bad news get worse...
2. The penalty for sin is death-
Romans 6:23- "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord"
BUT HERE IS THE GOOD NEWS...
1. Christ died for you-
Romans 5:8- " But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
Just like the bad news got worse, the Good news gets better...
2. You can be saved!-
Ephesians 2:8-9-, "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast."
Is there anything that is holding you back from trusting in Jesus as your Savior today? Please contact me if you want to pursue a relationship with Christ.
There it is the Good news of the Gospel. We all have sinned and have earned Hell and no matter how many "good deeds" you do, you can never come close to meeting God's perfect holiness without Christ. It's like if you and I picked up a couple rocks and tried to throw them to the North Pole, You might get closer than me, but you still fall short of the goal. Christ is the only way. So I'll leave you with this verse:
John 14:6- "Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me."
Lost? You are only lost if you are not trying to find your way! There is a story about a man that got lost in the woods so he sat down and waited a day later he herd some people so he called out to them when they asked him what he was doing he said he got lost and didn’t know what to do he was surprised to find out there was a trail to a parking lot about 20 feet from where he was all he had to do was look.
ReplyDeleteAs for worthiness of god remember Jesus came for the unworthy and the sinners! For those are the ones that need him.