Good News - We All Qualify!

"Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners!"  1 Timothy 1:15

"For ALL have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" Romans 3:23

Before I started reading the Bible, I thought I was a pretty good person. But my thoughts were not God's thoughts, nor His ways my ways (see Isaiah 55:8-9). Ignorance in that case was not bliss!  I was headed for eternal judgement and I didn't know it (John 3:36; Hebrews 9:21;Revelation 21:8).

I soon found out how a sinner I was!  As William MacDonald rightly puts it: 'We are often shocked by the behaviour of others yet we do not know that we are capable of worse.  We do not realise how bad we are inside.' "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9.  "God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." Genesis 6:5 

It was good for me to know the truth about myself, for once I accepted what God said about me, I could then accept what God said about His Son!

"For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son,

that whosoever believes in Him should not perish,

but have everlasting life."

John 3:16

By accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour, He cleansed me (1 John 1:7) and gave me a new hatred for sin, and a new love of holiness (read 2 Corinthians 5:17), and I received eternal life with Him in heaven! He alone can turn a sinner into a saint (1 Corinthians 1:2; Ephesians 2:19).

Precious Pearls:

-"Who can forgive sins but God?" Mark 2:7

-"But that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins" Matthew 9:6

"Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." Isaiah 45:22 
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 3:23

Saved by His wonderful grace,

Claudine