Come to Christ!!
God made all things beautiful in His time, very good as He saw them at creation, nature was in perfect harmony with each creature, man had peace in the presence of his Creator but all of the sudden one day disobedience was committed and sin became the central activity of human race until today. Man became totally depraved; man became morally sinful and acts against the will of God. If you truly examine your heart and ways you will find that nothing in your human will and works can bring glory to God. The history of such misery will be traced back from the fall of the first man Adam. No wonder why we who are living today and those who lived before us are subject to incline to sinful desires of this world because we belong to this long genealogy line of people that would point us back to Adam and Eve, as our Great great-grand parents.
It easily entangles, it corrupts the heart, it demolishes the moral standard, it is not pleasing to the eyes of men and of God, it depresses the mind, its ways lead us straight to hell, it is tiring. These describe SIN and though we know them, we always find ourselves falling into it. Oh I almost forgot it is also deceptive, satan had been working thousand of years before we were born and had mustered every scheme for our very own weaknesses.
“It only takes one sin to call a man a sinner”. Remember, how many times did Adam and Eve sin before they were cast out from the Garden of Eden? ONCE, (oh that Awesome Holiness of God).
The Bible boldly states that all have sinned, and the world proves the statement is true by its actions and immorality. Why is there violence? Why is there a war? Isn’t it because people live in anger and forget to love? Sin is rampant in the place of prosperity and even in the most hidden tribes of the jungle you could find people doing what is declared by law to be wrong.
There are of course consequences of sin; every born man is spiritually and physically separated from God. Everyone who sins cannot touch the HOLINESS of GOD though he works hard as far as his strength and human goodness can reach, by no means, he won’t and could not satisfy the justice of God. The reason why you feel hurt, lonely, longing, empty, sick and dying is because of the consequences of sin in your life. Everyone who sins is a perfect candidate to hell and that punishment is real.
This is the desperate condition of men. We neither need Superman nor any Heroes known to this world because they could not save us from the wrath of God. This is the bad news that CNN, BBC, and NEWS TV should broadcast but they give little emphasis on this matter and the worse; don’t even bother to talk about these things.
These truths present big problems to us who would like heaven after all; if this is so, what action should be done to escape this catastrophe? Is there a remedy?
The Hope of this fallen world is found in the BIBLE. The Word of truth and the powerful Word of God. God knew from the beginning that man has no capability to save his soul. Some desperate measures need desperate solutions and God made the way. He sent His only begotten Son Jesus Christ into the world, to save the LOST. The goodness of the Good News is in Jesus Christ.
We know from the scripture that the fame of Christ’s ministry has spread throughout the whole region of Jerusalem and made the jealous Pharisees to accuse Him of being a nuisance to what we can call an orderly man- made religion.
And there Jesus at the cross, gasping for air, beaten, mocked, and alone. Where were those people that pronounced Jesus as their King at the Triumphal entry at Jerusalem? The people He fed, those He healed, those He freed, and those he chose. They were all gone and what made His heart more heavier was when God the Father turned His back on Him because the Father saw our sins on the sinless Christ . The company that He longed for was replaced by two thieves both deserving to be executed for their sins. One had the shameful audacity to throw insults at the sinless Lamb and persuaded Him to act accordingly for his good and be saved out from the cross while the other started with mocking but later realized that the Man whom the Jewish people crucified is indeed a good Man, God humbled him and later by believing Jesus received the promise of paradise right in that very moment.
To a dying person all things seem to be irrelevant except for the things that would assure him of a better afterlife, and what adds up to his misery is the fact that He lived sinful and will die without any chances to make some of his mistakes right, that’s exactly how we describe the situation of the thieves, they might possibly cry “if only I would have the chance, I’m going to live good but woe is me for in wickedness I chose to live and from wickedness I will die”
I don’t know how much relief this sinner had felt who by all reason must suffer for his transgression and yet received the Saving grace and the blessed assurance straight from the very mouth of Christ which makes me envious every time I read this account.
The Savior was near to them, both have witnessed the Messiah crying out at the top of His lungs to forgive the people, (where in the world can you find such a man beaten to death and in agony of being left alone and still have the heart to forgive and love?) They both saw How He was brutally nailed, suspended between the heaven and the earth. They heard all those ungrateful and blinded Jews’ shouts of insult and blasphemy and how Christ reacted with silence. The Savior was near to them, very near to them as He is near to us to these days. He offered to both His life and to all humanity, both had the privilege and chance for salvation but one was hardened and the other was humbled.
No mind could comprehend the love of God for the wicked people; despite the fact that He is Perfectly Just (for He cannot tolerate sin) still He did everything to save the people even though the price was the life of Jesus. If there were other ways to save us perhaps God would spare the life of His Son, but as we all know Christ was crucified and His death was painful needless to say tragic. The punishment that should be poured out to men was laid upon Jesus. And the justice that God requires was met as Christ breathed His last on the Cross. The weight of Sin which we find difficult to overcome was overcome by Jesus and His blood washes away all our sins. Oh the greatness of Christ’s love.
“It is still a mystery to some and is revealed to some that unless the sinless Lamb die and His blood be shed there will be no remission of sins”
On the third day Jesus rose again, declaring the victory that he owns from the beginning to eternity. His death was not a loss but a fulfillment of the plan of redemption for His chosen people, predestined to live for Him and for Him alone. He is alive today working and interceding for the preservation of the saints and will come again someday to judge both the righteous and the wicked.
The risen Christ proved to all that no one under heaven had given the name to which we would be saved but only His name. And He is an enough Savior. God is sovereign.
He is alive, Hosanna in the Highest !!! He is alive. Honor and Power and Glory belong to our God.
What makes grace amazing is the fact that all people in every aspect is undeserving of His love but God being merciful looks on us with compassion, so amazing that we are in every bit unworthy but have been chosen that the depths of His love might be shown to all. We became partakers and heirs because of what Christ did, that’s grace; something that we don’t earn, but is freely given to us as a gift. Thank you Lord.
The appropriate response to grace is humility and thanksgiving and praise.
There is hope definitely……..Come to Christ, He is mighty to save!!!! God bless^^,
