Sometimes we look at something and assess its value and we get it totally wrong. You can get it wrong about a second-hand car, and that’s not the end of the world. But if we get it wrong about Jesus, we’ll ignore the only one who can forgive our sins. We’ll ignore the one who, in love, offers himself to us.
Author: John Johnstone
The grace and mercy of God
‘Your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.’ Wouldn’t you like to hear those words from God today? You can! It is possible right now to experience it if we admit our guilt and cry out to God to clean us.
We are broken by sin, but renewed by the atoning work of God, and commissioned with the Great Commission, to tell everyone that we have good news for them.
The eternal King
Sometimes we watch the news and it is so depressing. Or we get discouraged praying for situations and not really seeing much change. But, Jesus is still on the throne. He is working all things for our good. He reigns with unlimited authority and unlimited power. Let’s entrust ourselves to King Jesus.
Meeting Jesus…
Jesus loves to strengthen the weak. He walks with them and using the Bible, fortifies their faith. If you’re going through times of distress then know this, Jesus himself will meet with us, not in the pages of an ordinary book, but in the living and powerful Word of God. That’s where we meet Jesus. That’s where we will find what we need, whether we realise it or not.
He is risen!
We are called to be witness that Christ is, indeed, risen. Perhaps we feel we’re unlikely witnesses. Who will listen to us ? And yet we are exactly the people that God has chosen to carry the life-changing news of the resurrection across Fife and beyond. Let’s celebrate the good news: ‘He is not here; he has risen!’ (Luke 24:6)
Two criminals
The penitent criminal ask to be ‘remembered’. To be saved in the life to come. And what does he get? Much more! He receives a promise of eternal life that day. Have you done that? In short, have you turned from sin and stopped trusting yourself? Have you trusted in King Jesus?
The path to forgiveness
Given that there was a path of forgiveness for even the very soldiers who executed Jesus, then God will be willing to forgive you your sins if and only if you turn from your sins and ask for his forgiveness, based on what Jesus has done on the cross.
Miscarriage of justice
Jesus, an innocent man, was condemned to a cruel death, and a murdering rebel was released.< br>
We’re forgiven because he was condemned.< br>
We’re accepted because he was rejected. < br>
And we live forever because he died for our sins.
The only way…
Apart from Christ’s sacrifice, there was no other way for human beings to be saved from Hell. There were no other options. No other religion could save us; only the blood of Jesus can save, and not our own efforts. We cannot be saved by trying our best to please God.
You’re weaker than you think
becoming a Christian isn’t about what we can do for God but about what God can do for us. When we cry out to him for forgiveness, he saves us. And as we go on in the Christian life, he keeps us.