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1 | Could there be more? | Bible general Archive 3 | Angel In Training | 158917 | ||
Hi CDBJ, This is pretty neat, going back and forth with you. I love the Lord soooooo much that talking about my walk with Him is truly my dearest passion (my second passion is tennis). Awesome questions: 1. I know without a doubt that I have eternal life. 2. If I were to stand before God? Well, I have thought about it but in a different way, let me share my thought process with you. A couple weeks ago, at my bible study, I was posed a question. "What would I have written on my grave stone?" I thought a moment and started to write all these wonderful things: She was kind, caring, thoughtful, generous, and on and on. When I was done, it seemed completely empty. I had absolutely no peace about it. So I reflected on it and realized that it really doesn't matter to me what "I" think or what others think. What matters most to me is what God thinks. My dream is that He will say to the world something similar to what He said about Jesus, "With her, I am well pleased." So, with that said, if I were to face God today I would bow down and confess that I don't deserve His awesome grace and that all I have to offer is my heart and my effort to do His will. I would apologize for all my failures but at the same time I would know that He loves me and accepts me for who I am. When I think about where I was spiritually before a couple years ago, I can't help but wonder how I survived. Having a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ is the most awesome, fullfilling experience. Well, CDBJ, I hope you have a great day. I pray that God's will in your life is apparent and that you have the courage and wisdom to accomplish it. God Bless! Angel in Training |
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2 | Could there be more? | Bible general Archive 3 | CDBJ | 158946 | ||
Hi AIT, I like your example of the grave stone. I told my wife that when I die, she doesn’t even have to bother putting me in the ground, just through me in the back yard, and I will raise enough stink that somebody will bury me. She didn’t think it was funny either! There is an interesting point on your post that I noticed. You mentioned the following and it sure seems like the thing we would all want God to say about us “"With her, I am well pleased." Why would God want to say that about you personally speaking? I have kind of had thoughts along those same lines. I wanted to be the best person I could be and trust God and have Him look favorably on me. Then one day someone showed me the following, in the Bible that I would like to share with you; boy, did this open my eyes! The one that showed me this said that this is how God looks at me, and everyone else. Romans 3:10 As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one; Romans 3:12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one." I told him well I believe in God and I’m doing the best I can do and he continued to show me these verses. Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, The question is then how can I be pleasing in God’s sight since I am imperfect? The answer is that I have to get God’s eyes of me and on to something perfect instead of me; i.e. something in my place. Now how do I do that? God says that He will place me in Jesus Christ His Son positionally, if I will completely trust in the work that God did for me on the cross in the person of His Son Jesus. In essence Jesus gets old filthy me and God ascribes to me His perfect righteousness: what a deal!! But I have to have confidence or total undivided faith in Gods Son Jesus, in order for all of this to happen! Paul even mentions this in Romans about his countrymen and I fit the same pattern, how they believe in God and even with zeal but their believing in God wasn’t God’s plan: Jesus is God’s only plan! Romans 10:1-4 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. [2] For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. [3] For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. [4] For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. It’s kind of strange when we speak about believing in God and trusting in Him. God the Father wants us to use Jesus as the way to Him and eternal life. Acts 4:12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. When I started reading the Bible I was close and on the right track all right but it wasn’t until I finally come to the conclusion of the following that I knew God was right about the life hereafter. That if God were to ask me; Why should I let you come into My Kingdom, I would have say, while face down on my knees? Because of my precious Saviour Jesus, He paid my price and opened the way for me and I completely trust in what he did for me on the cross, that what he did was sufficient for me to get into heaven. I could say, Father if you weren’t satisfied with what Jesus did for me you wouldn’t have raised Him from the dead but you did and I trust in Him and believe what you promised me and I have Jesus as my own. 1 John 5:10-13 He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. [11] And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. [12] He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. [13] These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God. And now AIT, you know the rest of my story, CDBJ |
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3 | Could there be more? | Bible general Archive 3 | Angel In Training | 159137 | ||
Hello CDBJ, This is such a pleasure conversing with you. Let me do my best at addressing the issues you listed. I have to break up my response into two sections since it became too large to be accepted by the forum. Here goes: 1. re: "With her, I am well pleased." Why would God want to say that about you personally speaking? My goal in life is to do God's will. I am not only here to KNOW with certainty that I have eternal life, but I am here to AFFECT others. Hence, my user name: Angel in Training. I desperately want to be at God's disposal to do on earth what He wants me to do. I try each and every day to keep my spiritual ears open to hear God's gentle and un-expecting direction in my life. Sometimes I don't know if it's God or Satan that is trying to influence me. However, when I reflect the direction against the Word of God, and if it's consistent with the Word, then I know it's God. And to be honest with you, often part of the test is: Do I want to do this? Many times, if I DON'T feel a desire to do it, I know it's God requiring me to "step out of the boat". I have a few stories that I won't go into now, that God has used me as an earthly "angel" to bless others. If you think about it, Jesus came to earth to AFFECT others. Even though He OFFERS us eternal life, what we do here on earth is also very important. Jesus lived each and every day doing God's will. It was that fact that may have been why the Lord said He was well pleased and in this way I hope and pray He is pleased with me. An added note: I know with full certainty that my success or failure in any of this has no impact on my being saved. And, in addition, I don’t do or say any of this out of “duty”. It is out of my pure love for God. I want to be His servant, now and forever. And since I am NOW on this earth, I want to do ALL I can do to share and spread His glory. The Lord has sent me in new directions that I never thought were even possible for me. But with His support and strength, I made it through (and am making it through). A few scriptures that I rely on regularly are: 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 (New King James Version) 8:31… If God is for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31 (New International Version) 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7 (New King James Version) “I am the righteousness of God in Christ.” (I love this one that I hear Joyce Meyer refer to, but I don’t know the official scripture) 2. re: Romans 3:10 and 12: My response to this is “Of course.” None of us are righteous on our own, it is only through Jesus Christ that we are instantly “right” with God. And our good behavior is NOTHING without our faith and good heart. God is more concerned with our heart than our behavior. As Joyce Meyer says, “He is more concerned with our WHO than our DO.” Our good deeds are nothing in the sight of God, unless, of course, they are done with the right heart. What is the right heart? It is one that acts out of love and for no other reason. 3. re: Romans 3:23: Again, “Of course”. We will always fall short of the glory of God. And He knows it too. We are all imperfect in comparison to God. That is one of the reasons that Jesus was sent. Jesus showed us our “goal”. He was God, in the flesh. He came to show us The Way, knowing full well that none of us would (or are even close to able to) reach His glory. And, to be honest with you CDBJ, I am at peace with that. I know and am perfectly comfortable that I am imperfect. And God is okay with it too. He does not expect us to be perfect. Grace would not be grace if this wasn’t so. 4. re: The question is then how can I be pleasing in God’s sight since I am imperfect? My only response to this is that I need to “know without a doubt” that I am imperfect and that IN ALL THINGS I need God. And IN ALL THINGS that I have done, I give credit to God and no one else. It is this that makes God pleased, not that anything that I’ve done is perfect or that I am perfect in any way. When I live my life acknowledging God as the source of my strength and my direction and NOT relying on myself, it is then that my focus is in the right direction It is when we rely on ourselves that we fail. I feel it every time. When I try to accomplish my schedule without God involved: I become frustrated, angry, resentful, impatient and so forth. When I turn my sights back toward God and HIS schedule (not mine) it is then that I receive and enjoy the peace that God has placed in my heart. I will send the rest in a second note. :) AIT |
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