This Is My Story, This Is My Song!

Since my childhood, I had always believed (hoped) that God in heaven must have a big scale and that once we died, He would weigh out the good and the bad, and that 'God Being Love', would arrange it so that He would find more good than bad in most people and thereby be saved. You won't find that anywhere in the Bible, this is a pure trick of the devil so you won't worry about your eternal future. So I was in that false peace for the first 25 years of my life.

But everything changed once I came to know THE TRUTH. You know, there is absolute TRUTH to be known my friends (1 Timothy 2:3-6; John 8:32)! The Scriptures bear witness to themselves that they are divine. "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God" (2 Timothy 3:16). Not only do the Scriptures bear witness that the Bible is God's Word, but also the exact fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies bear record too, without a shadow of a doubt. Also, no other book in the history of mankind has had such a tremendous effect in the lives of millions as the Holy Bible.

By spring 1987, I had read a book about Bible prophecies which really shook me up! It showed me on many occasions how the Bible prophesied events and everything had turned out just as God had said it would. What scared me the most was that some prophecies were still unfulfilled, and I was not ready to meet God the way I was. You see I found out to my dismay that I was a SINNER DESERVING HELL! God is Holy and will not accept one little sin in His perfect Heaven. I was in big trouble and I knew it! (read Romans 3:23; John 8:21)

By then, I really wanted to be right with God, because I knew the Bible said that the Lord Jesus Christ was coming again AT ANY MOMENT to take to heaven those that belong to Him (1 Thessalonians 4:15-18), and that those left behind would go through what the Bible calls THE TRIBULATION (read the book of Revelation). Or, what if I died in a car accident tomorrow, or even died in my sleep tonight? I needed to be saved right now (Acts 4:12). I was ready to do anything at that point. So I decided to finish reading the book I had and follow everything in MY BIBLE ... THIS WAS VERY URGENT!

You know, I never knew why the Lord Jesus had died such an awful death as the crucifixion! But I found out that this event was God's Way for men to BE SAVED/made right with God! "Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures (prophecies); and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according the the Scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). Through faith in Christ and His great work on the cross, salvation became mine. It can be yours today as well(see John 3:16; Ephesians 2:8-9)! If you are willing to take the place of a sinner, then Christ is willing to take the place of a Saviour - in fact, He already did! Come to Him now, He will not turn you away! (John 6:37) "Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow" (Isaiah 1:18). "The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin" (1 John 1:7).
Humanity's only hope is found in the unmerited unearned, and undeserved grace of God (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 6:23), justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. (Romans 3:24)

Jesus said: "I am The Door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved..." John 10:9. As soon as I found heaven's door, by faith, I quickly entered in with thankfulness to God in my heart, "and He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Him." Psalm 40:3

I could grace withstand no more,

For I saw my sins He bore,

So I entered by The Door, and believed it.

Now I'm happy all the day;

I can sing as well as pray,

For my sins are washed away - I believe it!

Claudine