You may fast,
observe Lent, go on a pilgrimage, but none of these things will make you better
in God’s eyes. We are told that Jesus is
the only one to make us fit to come to the Father. It is only when we believe that Jesus is the
only one who can forgive us, that only He has the power to put us right with
God that we can know we are accepted by the Father. We can do absolutely
nothing toward our salvation. Oh yes we
have to believe but that also is a gift given to us by the Father. Why are we so stupid as to keep struggling to
put ourselves right. It can’t be
done. As the Father accepts us He will
give us the desire to do good things, but only because we love Him and not to
bring about our salvation. Look at Ephesians 1 and 2 and also John 14 verse 6.
We have this terrific urge to put ourselves right with God but it can’t be
done. It is human rebellion that wants
us to do this. It is the same rebellion
that made Adam and Eve think they knew best when they ate the forbidden fruit
in the garden. Nothing has changed in all
those years. We are still rebelling. Tell a little child not to so something and
what will happen? They will surely do
it. All that talk about man having progressed down the centuries is nonsense,
we haven’t improved one bit. Ask God for forgiveness in Jesus and throw away
your rebellion.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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