Feelings
by
Barbara Philbrook
Feelings
are not how we know that we are saved,
nor is it because we keep the commandments that God on
the stone had engraved.
If
salvation could have been obtained by what we feel or do,
then Jesus would not have had to die to save me and you.
If what we
tried to do could make new creatures out of you and me,
then there would have been no reason for Jesus to hang so
that we would know victory.
The price
needed to be paid by one free from sin,
which is the only way that you or I could be allowed in.
Now how
does what Jesus did on the cross pay for our sin,
it was the atonement that God planned before creation of
this world he did begin.
God in his
wisdom and his very deep love for mankind,
arranged it so no one who chose to accept Jesus
would be left behind.
Satan
would like to have us all lose our salvation,
he tries to persuade us that we are hopelessly lost and
cause us to worry over our and God's relation.
"God
so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but
have everlasting life" or the victory to have won.
Where does
this ability to believe in what we cannot see come from,
it is another of the gifts God gives to us so we may live
in the new kingdom.
The gifts
of life everlasting and faith are given to us from our
Father above,
that all who choose to accept them will be changed by his
great love.
If your
faith is not sufficient and you find it hard to believe,
just explain that to God and ask for more and you are
promised that more you will receive.
You can't
rely on what you feel from without or within,
you simply must seek him and trust that a transformance
in your life he'll begin.
 
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