Value.

Do you feel worthless ever? Do you sometimes feel like you don't contribute much to anything, that you are kind of just living waiting for God to take us up? Don't feel valuable? Well if you are reading this blog I assume that you believe the truth of Paul's gospel. 

Now why does that matter? Big deal, you believe something that is so simple and plain that a child understands it. Yet look around. How many other people can you name off the top of your head believe that Christ was actually a success? How many do you know that believe all will be made alive, and that God will be All in all?
That God is not counting our trespasses against us?! Well? How many? 

So why do we understand this simple truth when most of the world doesn't? It is because we are chosen. Now I want you to really stop and think what this means... Seriously, don't just read these words. Stop right now and think. God, the Being who SPOKE and there was light, SPOKE and there was Earth, Sun, Moon, and Stars. SPOKE and there were plants and animals. SPOKE and there were HUMAN BEINGS. The Being who controls all of everything who is all-powerful, all-knowing, and who IS LOVE. The Being who feeds and shelters the birds. The One Who loves you and cares for you more than any bird. HE CHOSE YOU! Imagine it! God BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH.... CHOSE... YOU...

If you ever feel useless, if you ever feel un-loved, just imagine God thinking about YOU before the World even began.

License To Sin?

"Well if everyone is going to be saved, why should I even try to be good? Why don't I just go hire a prostitute to snort crack with me? Isn't saying,"Everyone will be saved eventually", just giving them a license to sin?" 

How many times do you hear this when you try to tell someone about the Salvation of All? First of let me say, that if Paul weren't teaching pure Grace and no works at all, than the people he were teaching would not have asked why they can not sin more that Grace would abound. They basically asked Paul the same thing that we get asked. Is that not then a license to sin?

So many people dance around this question because they don't want to sound like they are condoning sin. Yes, in a way it IS a license to sin. Paul said that all things are allowed us, yet not all things are beneficial. Sure you have you can rob a bank, stab a baby, and even eat all of the red Skittles leaving none for anyone else. But, what happens if you do that? You will have serious jail time and, God-willing, horrible remorse for what you have done (especially for the Skittle thing, that's just pure evil).There are very real consequences for our actions. You can not, CAN NOT, out-sin Grace. 

So you can call it a license if you want, but just remember, most drivers that die in car accidents due to wreck-less driving, had a license.

Scars

The people that do the most harm to the Gospel and to the character of God, are not the ones that curse God. They aren't the ones that question God. They are the ones that "represent" God. They make God look worse than ISIS. At least after ISIS kills you, you are dead. God however is not so merciful. He is going to fry anyone that HE HIMSELF didn't give faith to believe the Gospel. Christians are like children that want to help mommy and daddy cook. They think they are helping, but in reality, they are making things much more difficult. 

When Christ was sent to Earth to be our Savior, He had to endure many, many things that He did not deserve. He remained perfect through it all. He suffered for our sake, He was beaten for our sake, and He died for our sake. Who made Him suffer? Who beat Him? Who KILLED Him? Was it "atheists"? Was it agnostics? No. It was the religious. The religious are the reason there are things like 9-11, ISIS, The Holocaust, The Crusades, The Dark Ages, etc. etc. Christ was scarred from the nails that went through His hands. Just as we are scarred emotionally and some of us, myself included, physically and mentally. Christianity and it's horrendous doctrine of eternal conscious torment, the free-will of man, and the Trinity can cause one to go crazy just trying to make sense of them! Let alone truly picturing what "hell" is going to be like if they don't measure up to God's expectations!  We are all scarred, but one day Christ will heal these wounds. 

This world that to us looks like a jumbled mess, is actually just a fraction of the Masterpiece that Jehovah is creating for His own pleasure. One day the finished product will be revealed, and not one soul will be disappointed...