HOLDING TIGHT TO THIS!
Have you ever considered this thought?... What is it that has separated the world from God and what exactly is it that will bring them back to Him? What will give us eternal life with God in heaven? Take a moment to ponder this powerful Scripture.
Col 1:21-23 (NLT) This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News.
This Scripture gives us another insight as to what happened at the fall of man. We all know that evil thoughts produce evil actions and loving thoughts produce loving actions. Humanity was separated from God because of evil thoughts! But what exactly were the evil thoughts that separated us from God? The evil thoughts can be categorized into the single thought that declares that we can be righteous or complete outside of oneness with God. This is what happened when Adam and Eve partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Mankind was then separated from intimacy with God and bound to the knowledge of good and evil, ie the law.
Man's way of trying to be righteous and complete through the knowledge of good and evil was, and still is the sin of all sins and the lie of all lies. This is what produces all wicked thoughts. Therefore, the good news of Christ’s death for us affords us the power to believe the truth of our right standing with God. This truth is not based upon our good actions but upon faith in the free gift of righteousness granted to us by the blood of Jesus. The secret to an eternal, intimate life with Christ is holding firmly to this truth! We must not let our failures separate us from this truth! Our righteousness does not depend on us but on Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! (Jn 1:29) This is the truth that you must never let go of! Spending your life on earth in intimacy with God and living forever with God is based upon…