1.God Loves
You:
God loves
you. He wants you to receive His blessings always. He wants you to live with
Him for ever. But you can not always receive His blessings because you have no
perfect relationship with Him. Many Christians claim to have good relationship
with God. But many Christians are nominal Christian. To receive God’s help
always, you must become a true Christian. One becomes true Christian only when
he has a perfect personal relationship with God.
So, let’s
see the Bible how can we have a perfect personal relationship with God.
2.Sin
Separates You from God:
God is Holy
and perfect. We are far from perfection. We are corrupt in thinking, action and
living life. So, we are far behind the quality of God. God is the Creator of
everything, including you and me. God created us to be like Him. He wants us to
be holy in thinking, action and way of living life. He wants us to obey Him and
follow His instruction always. But, we think, do and live in our pleasure and
do not care about God’s instruction. This means we ‘disobey’ God or ‘sin’
against God. Thus, ‘sin’ makes us live far away from God. The Bible says :
“for
all have sinned and
fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23).
Living far
away from God left us unable to receive the abundant blessing of God. We,
sinner can not remove ‘sin’ from our blood, mind and soul (heart). We need a
sinless person to remove ‘sin’ in us so that we may have relationship with God.
Jesus to
remove the barrier of sin and bridge the gap between us and God.
3.Accept
Jesus Christ:
I have Good
News! God sent his Son Jesus to live a perfect, sinless life and die in our
place.
“For the wages of sin is death, but
the gift of God is eternal life in[b] Christ
Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23).
Jesus has
already paid the penalty for your sin and offers a full pardon (forgiveness).
This is a gift, not something you have to earn by being good. Like any gift, it
is free; all you have to do is accept it and make it your own.
4.Become a
Child of God:
“Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.” (John 1:12).
Have you
accepted God’s forgiveness offered to you through Jesus’ death on the cross? If
yes, then according to scripture you are a child of God. You are a Christian
because of your belief. Welcome to the family!
If you have not
accepted Christ, what’s stopping you? Today is the day of your salvation! Don’t
wait!
“If
you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and
believe in
your heart that God raised him from the dead, you
will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)
Pray right
now, confess your belief in Jesus, and receive his forgiveness and salvation.
5.Live
a Peaceful Life :
To live a peaceful
life, we God’s help and blessing. To
receive the true blessing of God, one must receive ‘the forgiveness of
sin’.
To receive the forgiveness of God, we need
repentance. To repent, we need to
recognize our sin. When we recognize our sin, we must humbly confess our sin to
God. Then, thank God for His forgiveness, and ask Him for the Holy Spirit to
help us live a godly life. Only then, one can receive the constant help of God.
The fact is : We all
think, act and live against the will of God. This is sin. God knows us very
well. That’s why the Bible says, “All have sin and become short of the glory of
God” (Romans 3:23)
“If we claim we
have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. But if
we confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and
to cleanse us from all wickedness.” ( I John 1:8-9)
Believe God and
believe what His word says in the Bible. Accept that you are sinner. Confess in
prayer that you are sinner and ask God to forgive you.
Pray, “Lord, please
forgive me. I am a sinner. I need You to
control and direct my life. Be my Lord and Saviour. In Jesus name, Amen”
If you pray like
this, you will be what Jesus says, “this sinner, returned home justified
before God” (Luke 18:14).
Remember, “The
sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart…” (Psalm 51:17) God
loves a humble heart.
Now, thank God for
His forgiveness. Ask Lord Jesus Christ to give you the Holy Spirit to help you
live a godly life.
God bless you.
