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We Are Not All His Hey everyone, haven't been here in a while and I was just re-reading a post I had made back in March on a Bible study site and wanted to share it with everyone here. Hope all of you are doing well. March 30, 2008 Have you ever gotten to a point in your thought process where you wonder how you got there and, tracing your way, step by step, you go back through to find where you started? That is what happened to me as I lay, trying to go to sleep last night. And having gone back over that thought process, I decided that I wanted to get it down and find some way to share what I had deduced in my wonderings. It all began with something someone had said to me recently, don’t ask me why that particular statement came to mind as I did not get past it in my trace backwards. The comment was something like "We are all God’s ". Being a music lover from a young age that one comment brought to mind an old song, I believe it was by Ray Stevens, that contained this particular phrase. It went something like this: "You know we’re all God’s , His next of Kin." Suddenly the thought struck me that, NO, WE ARE NOT ALL HIS . We are all His creation, but not all of us are His . For John 1:12 tells us, "But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become of God, even to them that believe on his name:". And that Him that was received and in whose name they believed upon was none other than Jesus Christ, the only begotten of God. But what was it about this man that must be received by one in order to be given the right to become the of God? And why must one believe upon His name? This then became the direction that my thoughts took me. I realized that many had argued that God is not a respecter of persons, quoting the Bible itself in order to muddy the waters and make what is plain, unclear. But as usual, these folks have taken only what they wish and left the rest for the very next verse changes the entire perspective of the first. Acts 10:34-35 "And Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to him." It is true that God is not a respecter of persons, in that He does not "see" race, gender, social standing and what have you. Galatians 3:28 "There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus." But, as this verse points out, there is one thing that He does see, Christ. As Easter has just passed us by my thoughts then turned to this man called Christ. I began to think of what His death on the cross meant to me and millions of other Christians throughout the world, throughout the ages. I thought about the price that He paid, the ransom, for my soul. My mind wandered around thinking about all the different gimmicks that man has come up with to make folks believe that they can "do it themselves". Get into Heaven that is. But no one could say enough prayers or chant enough chants even if they did so 10, 20 even 30 times a day every day of their lives to every so-called saint there is. They could not do enough good deeds were they to be reincarnated and lived100, 200, 300 lives. They could not give enough though they had 1000, 2000, 3000 times the wealth of King Solomon himself, the wealthiest man to ever live, its said. For we are told in Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." The price for the removal of the stain of sin from our souls is death, not just the physical death of our bodies but the eternal death of separation from God, our creator. BUT WAIT A MINUTE! WHAT WAS THAT I JUST THOUGHT? I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT I NEVER REALIZED THIS BEFORE! LET ME THINK THIS THROUGH! How many times in my life have I thought about how much of a man Jesus was? How many times have I told men that I have known that it was all right to cry because Jesus cried and if He wasn’t a man then no one was? How many times have I pointed out to some man that Jesus wept over the condition of mankind yet not one word is mentioned of His having made a sound throughout the entire time that He was being tortured and killed? Not a peep from Him despite the horribly cruel physical torment He endured. So much emphasis is place on this physical death that Christ died for the sins of mankind. For the blood He shed that covers the stain of sin in our lives and washes us clean. And I am not in any way attempting to minimize the importance of that death and that shed blood. But there was that one time that Jesus did cry out, in anguish, wasn’t there? How dreadful the pain must have been to make Him do so. I cannot begin to imagine a pain more intense than that which He had already suffered and yet, here it is, for it was enough finally to make this man of men cry out. Consider that God is so holy that He cannot look upon sin. And that on the cross of Calvary, Jesus Christ bore the sins of all mankind. For the first time ever, the link between God the Father and God the was broken. And the pain of that separation was greater even than the physical pain that Christ had already endured. So painful in fact that He cried out at the immensity of it. This was the spiritual death, the separation from God. Jesus Christ paid that price as well, for those who would accept Him and His gift of love. It does not bear thinking of how horrible this pain will be, when suffered for eternity by those who refuse Him. How grateful I am to be one of God’s . Are you? Cecilia Ephesians 6:13 . . .and having done all, to stand  |
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8/15/2008 10:16 am |
hey girl! so nice to see you!!  I am soo thankful to be His! And so thankful for all that He did for me on that Cross...and what is available to me because of His subsequent ressurection! here's another ForEwe 
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 welcome back
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Good thoughts... Now "think" with the Spirit... and move forward... _________ 
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