Thoughts for another day
September 7, 2010
Today's verse: Gal. 2:16a. Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
The more I go closer into the realms of God, the more I am convinced about the statement, ‘Without Me you can do nothing.’ And this statement of Jesus encompasses everything in life and beyond. One key thing that I can make of it is that we aren’t saved by the good we do, but by faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God and that is the way God our Father willed it.
The great gates of God’s Kingdom are eternally open to the common simple man who believes in Jesus with all his heart and all his life owes allegiance to Him, in rain and shine. But closed to the self-righteous and the man pompous in his own stature who unfortunately thinks he is what he is of his own making, yet sadly mistaken for never ever was anything with man, whether wealth, or a good body, or health or status or fame or children or wife or anything else, which is with him except that it is given by God. It’s improper nay, sacrilegious to claim that one is self made for how can one be self made if he doesn’t know what is to happen to him the next moment. Patient is God, very patient which therefore men take advantage by which they claim His non-existence, they which are like the mist in the morning, vanishing at the first rays of the sun! How then can one contest God and claim He doesn’t exist and what kind of maligned mind would dare do that, except a mind in which the devil has made his abode.
But the children of God, those who are His, not by their choice, but by His calling and choosing, they are the ones who give Him all the glory, just as you and I know we have to do and we wait for His mighty hand in our lives, redeeming us from any disdain of men so as to engrave on hearts that ‘he who trusts in the Lord, shall never be shamed’ and show the world that we are His and His we will be unto lasting life, being bought and redeemed by the precious blood of the One who laid His life down for us, so that we may commune with Him, ever and ever…a perpetual gift accorded to them who have believed in His Name, even though the sword of the world threatened them.
September 7, 2010
Today's verse: Gal. 2:16a. Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
The more I go closer into the realms of God, the more I am convinced about the statement, ‘Without Me you can do nothing.’ And this statement of Jesus encompasses everything in life and beyond. One key thing that I can make of it is that we aren’t saved by the good we do, but by faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God and that is the way God our Father willed it.
The great gates of God’s Kingdom are eternally open to the common simple man who believes in Jesus with all his heart and all his life owes allegiance to Him, in rain and shine. But closed to the self-righteous and the man pompous in his own stature who unfortunately thinks he is what he is of his own making, yet sadly mistaken for never ever was anything with man, whether wealth, or a good body, or health or status or fame or children or wife or anything else, which is with him except that it is given by God. It’s improper nay, sacrilegious to claim that one is self made for how can one be self made if he doesn’t know what is to happen to him the next moment. Patient is God, very patient which therefore men take advantage by which they claim His non-existence, they which are like the mist in the morning, vanishing at the first rays of the sun! How then can one contest God and claim He doesn’t exist and what kind of maligned mind would dare do that, except a mind in which the devil has made his abode.
But the children of God, those who are His, not by their choice, but by His calling and choosing, they are the ones who give Him all the glory, just as you and I know we have to do and we wait for His mighty hand in our lives, redeeming us from any disdain of men so as to engrave on hearts that ‘he who trusts in the Lord, shall never be shamed’ and show the world that we are His and His we will be unto lasting life, being bought and redeemed by the precious blood of the One who laid His life down for us, so that we may commune with Him, ever and ever…a perpetual gift accorded to them who have believed in His Name, even though the sword of the world threatened them.
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