Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Toys Loved

There was a boy that loved to play with dolls. He made sure that they were never scratched or damaged, and maintained their clothing and toy weapons and accessories with the highest care. When he played with them, each doll would become part of a grand and exciting adventure, because the boy just loved to play with his dolls. Each day after he was done playing, he would pick up his dolls one by one, and lay them inside a box, making sure not to overlap them on one another because each one was special to him. Even when the boy became older and stopped playing with his dolls, he didn't sell them away but he kept them in boxes and made sure they were properly stored. When he got married he even took his dolls with him to his new home, although to be expected his wife gave him a very strange look when he opened the box to show her.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Jesus is More than Enough

(NIV) John 6:28 Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?" 29 Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."

I'm resting in the peace that Jesus has given me eternal life. Why me?

When Jesus said, "It is finished." on the cross, he meant it. He finished the work of sacrifice of all sins for all time, and then took his place at the right-hand of God.

We must maintain that it is only Jesus work that cleanses us from sin, nothing else. It's not Jesus and loving God, it's just Jesus. It's not Jesus and keeping the ten commandments, it's just Jesus. Jesus is more than enough for all our sins! We could never do enough.

All this was prophesied through Jeremiah:

The New Covenant

Jeremiah 31:31-3431"The time is coming," declares the Lord, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 32It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them," declares the Lord. 33"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the Lord. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the Lord. "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."

To all unbelievers, this is written for you: 1 John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness."

You can be sure that once you believe in Jesus, your sins will never be remembered. Hallelujah!

Monday, March 15, 2010

God is Good

It has been said that God is love, but where does it say that God is good? Some may say that God is good and evil, a mysterious contradiction, a cosmic balance of what seems right and what seems wrong. How could a good God create such a world like this earth? If you are having difficulty with this question, I would like to tell you my position on this extremely difficult question: is God good?

If you believe the world is only good, and there is nothing wrong with the different nations of the world, then you are living in a bubble, a non-reality. There is not much else to tell you. But if you admit that there are injustices in the world, and pain and suffering, then you're absolutely right, and probably very frustrated by what's going on. I've said all that to say the following, and I warn you it's a hard pill to swallow. God is going to set the whole world straight, but you won't see that happen until the end of the world. In the mean time, God expects us to accept his word that everything is going to be alright in the end. And he didn't leave us with nothing, but he has given us his Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is everything to a believer, like a well-of-cool water in a dry desert. In the end, the guilty will be brought to justice; the murderers, and molesters, and frauds, and liers will no longer be able to get away. I hope you choose to believe God, and accept his Son because with the Holy Spirit you'll be alright.