Come Without Fear
When you say, it feels abnormal
approaching God without fear, kindly explain Heb. 4:16
The Gospel of Jesus (Grace)
should bring rest to our conscience without the religious barrier of
condemnation. Berries built in our minds
over the years that we have to be clean before coming to God. This in a way has
kept many away from God, many that would have been complete in God if only they
are told that the works of righteousness depends solely on the finished work of
Christ.
The power to become righteous solely depends
on our faith in Christ Jesus. You must first become a son to become a heir, not
the other way; This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid,
grave-tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike
“What’s next, Papa?” God’s Spirit
touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we
know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what’s
coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ
goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we’re certainly
going to go through the good times with him. Romans 8:15-17 (MSG Bible).
I can still remember how it took
me Six (6) extra years to stop smoking after I became born again; I will hold cigarette
in my hands with tears rolling down my chick and the words “Father have mercy
on me” in my mouth, yet I will light the next stick of cigarette with the
feeling of helplessness and almost every message I heard was always pointing me
to hell until I received victory over that habit and up till now, have never
had the urge to go back, not for a moment. Thank God I didn’t give up on my faith;
maybe I would have gone back.
We hear messages like; stop
smoking, stop drinking, stop, stop, stop and I ask, who else will womanize or
smoke or cheat if not a sinner, what else will he/she do? When he/she stops all and the trumpet sound,
will he/she make heaven? The answer is NO. It takes a life hid in God in Christ
to make heaven through the confession of Jesus as our Lord and personal saviour
just Like Romans 10: 9 and 10 puts it:
vs: 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved.
vs: 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness;
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Religion is messing up with our
minds and the only way it can be corrected is by going back to the true gospel
of our Lord Jesus Christ. I can only go to God with the confidence that every
time God looks at me, He sees his perfect Son, Jesus and so I can rest, my conscious
is full of Joy because I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but
Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son
of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Gal. 2:20.
Speak The Peace.
