Aww so cute a tea bag design… (Taken with instagram)
From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
If I Could Sum Up What Salvation Is to Those Who I Failed to Explain it to…
In the most simplest ABC sense, is to know who God is, what He’s done, and who you are and where you are in comparison to Him.
Even the mere act of admitting and recognizing your sin will not get you salvation.
To believe that acknowledging and changing your behavior is somehow going to bring you “heavenward” in a way is almost bordering on the thin line of gaining salvation through your own efforts.
Fully knowing, acknowledging, how distant we are from God when we sin, is repentance and the beginning of Sanctification. Which is very important as well in our Christian walk.
However,
Salvation is inherited through Jesus’ death on the cross (when we see it and we recognize God’s true desire and His nature) and when we believe in the Resurrection (the faith in God’s authority and power).
It was never through our hands to gain salvation, but it was God’s plan for us to discover and experience it in the fullness of its grace and power through experiencing it within our lives.
You have not encountered the Holy and Living Father until you see yourself in front of that cross.
If your whole body is not shaken up when you envision that veil being torn apart when Jesus drew his last breath for you to be able to enter His temple, you gotta take a few steps back until it hits you.
You do not want to miss the Presence of God swing past you.
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.” (1 Peter 2:9-10)
God is calling you into his royal priesthood.
The death of Jesus should expose your wayward self,
But the resurrection should give you hope and security.
I’m kind of excited for Easter for some reason now LOL
So my prayers tonight go out to those strangers and friends alike who I could not fully give my answers to what I believe is to be the Salvation.
It is not a loophole for Christians.
It is not a license to sin.
It is not measurement of who is better or worse.
It is not meant to chain you or to keep you from becoming who you are.
It is not meant to harm you, not meant to merely expose you…
but to give you hope.
It was designed for you to see for yourself where God is in your life,
and where He wants to be for you.
Remember He chose to die for you, because He wants you to know Him that badly, so it wouldn’t hurt to give Him a chance.
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While the Reformed evangelists of the Great Awakening were also presidents of Princeton and Yale, evangelists since Charles Finney have actually boasted in their lack of education. Evangelicalism has a legacy of anti-intellectualism that has not only crippled its witness to the watching world, but has also opened the church itself up to the most remarkable reaches of stupidity and incredulity. Anti-intellectualism is not humble. Humility says, “I don’t know, but I’ll have to look into that.” Pride says, “I don’t know, and that’s okay.” To conclude that things which are beyond my reach of knowledge, insight, or experience are not worth knowing is the height of arrogance. I am not the measure of all values, all truths, and all meanings. Circumventing thought processes, it is a mere act of will that attempts to pick up the slack of our lazy thinking.
(Source: jasminecrystal)
I’m dying… so cute, I want one…
It’s too late for me to turn back and pretend that I am ignorant to the world’s injustices. But it’s not too late to decide how I will let this knowledge shape me.
