Let's
think about this....The greatest good, the greatest gift, and the
GREATEST THING THAT GOD could ever give or do for anyone, HE DID and He
did so for the most worst of people. Think about it. He that is the MOST
GOOD laid down His life for the MOST BAD. That doesn't make natural
sense. That's love beyond human logic or reasoning (Ephesians 3:14-21).
So we conclude that the greatest good God could
ever do, God did, for the greatest bad. Christ died for the ungodly
(Romans 5:5-10) that's the GOOD NEWS, THE GOOD REPORT spoke of by the
prophet Isaiah 53:1. Christ died for the most evil. Christ died to even
save and bless his enemies with His Fathers impartial goodness. Christ
was not given by God for the goody two shoes (Such did not exist in Gods
eye and book), Christ was given for a world full of the chiefest of
sinners, even for the worst of the worse .......
The thief on the Cross
next to Jesus that asked Jesus to save him that hour, was and is today
SO GLAD that these words are SO TRUE AND AMEN WITH GOD. Having done
wrong after wrong, and sin after sin and having no other hope or place
to go, (being very down on his luck that day and hour), he turned to the
God who is RICH IN MERCY (Ephesians 2:4) and said "Lord, will you
remember- even me- when you come into your glory? He asked God himself
in a face to face mode that mighty question and God Himself answered.
Jesus responded to his repentant heart of last minute faith and swore a
personal oath to him, to one of the worlds chiefest of sinners, "THIS
DAY you will be with me in Paradise"........
Friend are you down on your
luck? Are you at your wits end? Are you like pinned to a cross of
punishment because of your wrongs and your awful ungodly ways and even
terrible crimes and embarrassing sins? There is GOOD NEWS EVEN FOR YOU.
God said, God Swore that He would be RICH IN MERCY to all who in
repentant faith would call upon HIS NAME.....Jesus is the Lords
Name....Romans 10:12-13)........
The story of the thief on the cross that
made it into heaven was the story of the combination of repentance mixed with faith. He
confessed he deserved his punishment for his sins and crimes, but he
still in all that notable guilt and shame, he reached out IN FAITH to
THE ONE he himself called Lord, and God answered his faith with
EVERLASTING LOVE AND ETERNAL SALVATION. Because of his faith in Christ
God gave him heaven any way, a thing and a place that he by his life style on
earth DID NOT DESERVE but God gave it to him for his faith in Christ
which God accounted to him as his righteousness TO ENTER . That my friend is grace. That my friend is the gift of God wrought by the effectual intercession workings of Christ redeeming power. Friend That is my
God. My Savior. My Lord. My Redeemer......Learning to lean on him more
and more....deno...how about you?.....please share freely.
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