"Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins."
Proverbs 10:12
The 1970 dramatic film Love Story introduced one of the most oft-quoted lines about love in the modern era: “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” One of the stars of that film, Ryan O’Neal—who had the words spoken to him by his dying girlfriend—was in a romantic-comedy movie two years later with Barbra Streisand (What’s Up, Doc?). In that movie, when Streisand says those same words to O’Neal, he responds, “That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard.”
Most people would agree with the 1972 assessment from What’s Up Doc? of “love means never having to say you’re sorry.” But there’s a kernel of truth there. After all, “love covers all sins” (Proverbs 10:12 "Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs."; see also 1 Peter 4:8 "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."). Theoretically, that means one doesn’t have to say “sorry” to be forgiven. But biblically, there is a problem; there is a price to pay for sin: death (Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."). And Jesus paid that price for us—unconditionally. Jesus introduced true unconditional love to the human experience, paying a horrific price for our sins. But that doesn’t mean we are exempt from saying “sorry” when we sin (1 John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.").
Let unconditional love be the basis for all your relationships. But if you sin, always say “sorry” to God and others.
Repentance is being sorry enough to quit your sin.
Albert Martin
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Salvation
Have you ever thought about your salvation? I have, but can you imagine how it must look to God, we ask God into our lives, we confess our sins to Him and He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins, but then a week goes by and we continue to sin, we continue to dishonor God and we say it is just how we are, we are human. But to God Salvation is a life long pursuit of Him, not just a moment that we gave our lives to Him, because He wants us to put Him first moment by moment, not just one time and forget about Him. Can you imagine if we change our view point from a choice we make once, but a choice that we make moment by moment. Yes our salvation is guaranteed, but what are we doing in our daily walk to honor Jesus, He died on the cross for our sins, our we just taking it for-granted or are we showing Him we are following after Him.
I have heard it said that once we are saved, we don't have to do anything else, because God will do it all. But I say to those people, does a mountain climb itself? No, we have to work at a relationship with Jesus Christ, we have to do, it just doesn't happen. We need to put work into things, if we want to get anything out of them. Yes, we are guaranteed a place in heaven, but do you want to hear Jesus say to you "Well done my good and faithful servant" or do you just want to hear "you may enter"?
We are running a race, not just walking, not just sitting, we are here to do our best job we can do, not for ourselves, but for Jesus Christ. We are suppose to do the work it takes, not just wait for things to be done for us, we are suppose to work at our relationships, raise our children in the way that God has called us to, because that is what it means to be different from the world. We aren't just suppose to allow things just to pass us by and us to say oh well. We are suppose to do the work it takes to do it like God has demonstrated in the Bible, that is why He wrote it. It isn't just a suggestion, it is a guide to how we are suppose to live. If you want an answer, search for it in the Bible, the more we are in the word, the more the word is in us and Jesus is the word. It just doesn't happen, we have to do the work it takes.
Are we doing the work it takes? Are we just Sunday Christians, only doing it for 2 hours every Sunday or are we living the life that Jesus has laid out for us to live? It is a high call on our lives, that is what sets us apart from the world, it is a moment by moment choice to honor God, not a one time choice.
I have heard it said that once we are saved, we don't have to do anything else, because God will do it all. But I say to those people, does a mountain climb itself? No, we have to work at a relationship with Jesus Christ, we have to do, it just doesn't happen. We need to put work into things, if we want to get anything out of them. Yes, we are guaranteed a place in heaven, but do you want to hear Jesus say to you "Well done my good and faithful servant" or do you just want to hear "you may enter"?
We are running a race, not just walking, not just sitting, we are here to do our best job we can do, not for ourselves, but for Jesus Christ. We are suppose to do the work it takes, not just wait for things to be done for us, we are suppose to work at our relationships, raise our children in the way that God has called us to, because that is what it means to be different from the world. We aren't just suppose to allow things just to pass us by and us to say oh well. We are suppose to do the work it takes to do it like God has demonstrated in the Bible, that is why He wrote it. It isn't just a suggestion, it is a guide to how we are suppose to live. If you want an answer, search for it in the Bible, the more we are in the word, the more the word is in us and Jesus is the word. It just doesn't happen, we have to do the work it takes.
Are we doing the work it takes? Are we just Sunday Christians, only doing it for 2 hours every Sunday or are we living the life that Jesus has laid out for us to live? It is a high call on our lives, that is what sets us apart from the world, it is a moment by moment choice to honor God, not a one time choice.
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