There is a “now”.  We live blind to the Glory of God, for now.  We inhabit a body, which is capable of many things.  Evil and Good present themselves to our minds every second of our lives.  And there is a reason for chosing Good.  There is a “then”.  Then we shall stand before the creator of our bodies, Jesus.  We will (without our concent) give account of our lives to the Lord.  How then should we choose “now” to indulge our bodies in the evil?  “Then” we will surely regret the lost seconds of our lives not spent in service to the Lord Jesus Christ.  Accept His gift of forgiveness, listen to Him, obey what you hear.  I know one truth: If you read this entry, I have done my duty in Christ to warn you.  Why die?  Why side with evil.  Put away all the ways the world is telling you to live.  Listen to Him and do His will.  “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in Heaven”.  Don’t be fooled.  Everyone will reap the harvest of his actions.

When I lived in complete sin I took no positive notice of religion.  I had heard others talk about their experiences and likes/dislikes of religion.  I didn’t take much of my brain to tell me these people were living a lie.   To them Religion might have been important, but there was nothing in what they said to make me desire to get involved with their religious endevors.

Then I met Jesus and fell head over heals into a life of faith.  I’m not a good man.  I’m not even a fair to middlin Christian.  But the Lord I serve is, not only alive, but is capable of helping draw me into eternally good things.  I’m not a religious person.  I’m a child of God in Christ Jesus through the faith God grants me. 

Think of your “religion”.  Is it a series of do’s and don’t’s?  Is there an active God in your world?  When you have a problem face you do you litterally have a conversation with the Lord?  Or when times come when you think you need God’s help, take a hand full of words and throw them at the sky? 

I know Jesus!  I know who He is.  And more importantly, He knows who I am and who you are.  We do not save ourselves.  If you come at salvation and God through your own good things, you will never reach Him.  Only in a realization of our own miserable failure do we find the humility sufficient to gain His favor.  The pride of man will be crushed. 

I hope this post has helped someone to think through their bag of lies and find that single truth the Lord Himself put there: JESUS.

By His Grace.

Quick to listen, slow to speak………………..   Don’t spoke unless you’re speekin to.