Eternal Life

I don’t know about you, but when my children were around the age of two, they wanted to do everything themselves. Honestly it was struggle to let them do things that I knew they would struggle and fail at but finally I just would have to let them try it. They would try it and fail and then, without much persuasion from my part, they would come and ask my wife and I for help.
It’s funny that even though we grow up, we aren’t that much different then a two-year-old at times. It’s hard to let lopse that stubborn attitude of "I can do it myself!"

A lot of Americans were raised with this idea of "We can do it ourselves" but they forget that this nation was built on Christian fundamentals and believing that in God nothing is impossible. We were a nation that believed that in God we could make anything possible if you just believed by taking a step and letting Him help us. (Luke 18:27)

Unfortunately we are becoming a nation and children that don’t know our Father God. We have become a nation that has gone and hid in the clothes racks of human ideals and come out not knowing where our Father God is standing.

We don’t know how to ask our Father God for help and we have become stubborn and even foolish in our own ways of thinking. Thinking that our ways are right but when compared side by side to God’s biblical truths we are nation that is black beside God’s truths that are white. We are becoming lost in our own darkness of the foolish thoughts and ideals.

We don’t know how blessed we are compared to other nations. It seems we don’t even care and are ignorant of God’s hand over us. I have been to Mexico where families live in a little more then cardboard shacks and don’t know where they are going to get their next meal but they have more trust in God then we do. An American thrown into their "situation" wouldn’t have much to lean on to keep them going and give them assurance. We as a nation are blind to our richness of blessings from God. We are like spoiled children tearing away the wrapping paper from our piles of gifts. We don't fully realize that there other children out there that don't even have an idea what it means to have a bathroom, a bed, or even running water.

Are we totally blind when it comes to God? I don’t think so. Look around us. Look at you and the nature all around you. Where did our nation go in crises such as 911 or Katrina? When we hear God’s truths, they either convict us or reassure us. God is our Father. He knows everything we have ever done. We instinctively know God’s truths because we try to ignore or hide or run from them when we aren’t right with our Father God just a child tries to lie, hide or run from their natural born parents when they have done something they know their parents would not approve.

Why do you think our Father God wants us to know He knows everything about us? (Job 23:7-12) Isn’t obvious? So we can come to Him knowing there isn’t anything to hide from Him. We mess up- we simply say we screwed up and ask Him to forgive us and to direct us so we don’t make the same mistake again. He loves us and He will love us even to the gates of hell if that is our choice not to trust in Him. It is you who has to decide if you truly want to trust him or not.

You want religion? Of course not! You want to be part of a world that is drowning in it’s own darkness? Of course not! It’s a small path between those two things but God’s Holy Spirit sent by Jesus Christ can help you along that small path if you humble yourself and ask for help.

Jesus states in John 16:13 " When the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not be presenting his own ideas; he will be telling you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future. He will bring me glory by revealing to you whatever he receives from me. All that the Father has is mine; this is what I mean when I say the Spirit will reveal to you whatever he receives from me."

Jesus says in Matthew 7:13 "You can enter God’s kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for many who choose the easy way. But the gateway to life is small, and the road is narrow, and only a few ever find it."
So who is the gateway to life?

Jesus says in John 10:9 "Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. Wherever they go, they will find green pastures. The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give life in all its fullness. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."

John 10:14 "I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep. And they know me, just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep, too, that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; and there will be one flock with one shepherd"

John 10:27 "My sheep recognize my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them away from me, for my Father has given them to me, and He is more powerful then anyone else. So no one can take them from me. The Father and I are one."

John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me."

You can not get eternal life by yourself nor matter what good things you have done or believe in yourself. Your eternal life is based solely on faith. Faith in God the Father’s Son, Jesus Christ. That faith, in Jesus Christ, will sustain, anchor and keep you on that path to eternal life.

If the Spirit of God is calling to you, ask Jesus Christ into your life. Ask Him to forgive you for all the times you have done things your way. Ask Him to forgive you for all the wrongs you have committed in your life for he paid them in full on the cross for you and me. Ask Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of your life. Ask Him to fill you with the Holy Spirit so you may grow and be given wisdom to understand and live and love by God’s truths and ways. Tell Jesus that you don’t want to go to hell and you know the only way to eternal life is through Him. Speak from the heart and he will hear you.

God bless you