My Spot: September 2009

Most of us have at one time asked ourselves about the meaning of life. Who am I? How did I get here? Is there a God?

What will happen when I die?

We can look at the world around us and see the magnificence of nature and realize that all of this could not have happen except by some intelligent designer. At the same time, we can look at human society and see all the problems that we have not been able to solve and wonder what went wrong. God has given us a guidebook to explain why this world is the way it is. I n this book, The Bible, God says that he created Us to know Him. This disobedience, which the Bible calls sin, seperates us from God, and is the basis for all the problems in the world.

We can see how much we have sinned by looking at the Ten Commandments. These Commandments are part of God's law, and by looking at them we can see some of the ways in which we have sinned.

Here are some of them:

- You shall worship the one true God. and put Him above everything else.

-Never take God's name in vain (use it casually or profanely).

-Do not steal anything

-Do not tell any lies.

-Do not covet after material things.

Have you broke any of these laws? How many times? none of us has totally kept God's law.

God views every sin as an extremely serious violation of His Law. In His justice, He has required that a penalty be paid for our sins. If we had to pay it ourselves, that penalty would be eternal punishment in God's prison which is called Hell. This is the Bad News, which we must understand before we can appreciate the Good News.

The Good News is that God loves us and has provided one means through which we could be forgiven for our sins and reconciled to Him. He sent His Son Jesus Christ into the world. Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one come to the Father but through Me" John 14.6. Jesus never sinned and therefore deserved no punishment for sin. But he died a cruel death on the cross to take upon Himself the punishment we deserved for our sins. Three days later, He rose from the dead so we could be justified in God's eyes and live forever with Him.

Before we come to Jesus, we are living for ourselves, doing what we want to do. When we come to Jesus, we need to let Him be the Lord of our lives, to find out what He wants us to do and seek to obey Him. We need to realize that the way we have been going is wrong, and that God's way is right, and make a decision to live God's way through the strength He gives us.

Right now you can get your life in right relationship with God. This is what you must do:

1. Admit that you have sinned against God. "God be merciful to me a sinner" Luke 18:13.

2.Believe that Jesus Christ paid for your sins and rose from the dead.

3. Decide to let Jesus be Lord of your life and to allow Him to guide and direct you.

4. Ask Jesus to forgive your sins and come into your life and make you the kind of person He want you to be. God wants to put His spirit inside of you so that you will have the ability to live for Him.

God Bless You All