INSIGHT
HOW GOD EVALUATES OUR LIVES:
There are
several commonly held misconceptions about how God evaluates the deeds of men.
One idea is that as long as we don't do anything "terrible," God will overlook
our "little" sins. Another is that God weighs all our good works on one side of
a scale and all our bad works on the other. If the good outweighs the bad, we're
okay. A third incorrect notion is that God lines up all the people who have ever
lived from the best to the worst and then divides them in half. If you make the
cut, you're okay. The truth the Bible teaches is that God demands sinlessness.
And since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, all people are
condemned. There is only one way out: Receive Jesus as your personal Savior.
Through Him, all your sins can be forgiven.
INSIGHT
THE DAILY STRUGGLE OF SURRENDERING OUR WILLS TO GOD
Our lives
are a constant struggle between our own wills and the will of God. The
circumstances of God's will are often strange and enigmatic; they do not always
make sense. However, His will is being worked out even in ways we cannot see or
understand. When we relinquish control of our lives and yield to God's will,
then peace, love, and joy will characterize our lives. Paul must have wondered
from time to time how shipwreck and imprisonment were working into God's will;
yet with historical perspective, we can see that good came of these events. In
the words of the old hymn, we must: "Trust and obey, for there´s no other way to
be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey."
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