“He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.” — 1 John 5:10-12
John made it
pretty clear didn’t he? If we have the
Son – if we have placed our faith in the work the Jesus did on the Cross them
we have eternal life. I think it is
important for us to remember that truth – every day. It should change the way
we see things, the way we do things, the way we love things. I listened to a
sermon about this subject today. It was
like hearing the song Jesus Loves Me – so simply and yet so profound.
“But what does
it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the
word of faith which we preach): that if
you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God
has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one
believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation.” – Romans 10:8-10
Confess and Believe
– so simple – but that is only the beginning. The is the start of our new life –
the beginning of a journey that will end in Heaven. Do you believe that? I hope so. You know, I
write these BLOG posts with the hope that the Spirit of God will use them to
stir your heart to pursue God and His righteousness through Jesus by the power
of the Spirit and the revelation through His word. I heard a pastor’s prayer, “I’ve
got nothing to say, Lord let me get out of the way!” That is how I feel about
what I write.
“Eye has not
seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which
God has prepared for those who love Him.” But God has revealed them to us
through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of
God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which
is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now
we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God,
that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These
things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy
Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man
does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to
him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” – 2 Corinthians
2:9-14
God uses His Spirit
to teach us – to reveal deep truths to us – spiritual truths that can only be
understood by the power of His Spirit.
He uses His children to communicate those truths and then the Spirit of
God to illuminate the truth and confirm it in our hearts. Of course the natural man cannot understand
them because he lacks the Spirit of God. Pretty simple.
That is it for
today. Yield your heart to the Spirit of God – receive His teaching as it was
intended – to conform you into the image of the Son. To cause your light ot
burn brightly in a dark world that is in desperate need of a Savior – even Jesus
Christ.
Let your light
shine and give God the glory.
By Faith Alone By
His Grace Alone And For His Glory Alone