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May be……. but! May be you don't know God but God knows you. May be God is not important to you but you are important to God. May be you don't love God but God loves you. Perhaps to you God has no purpose but God has a purpose for you. You are not master of your life and destiny - God is. You see, God is there whether you believe in Him or not. He is not a figment of someone's imagination or a product of wishful thinking. He did not suddenly start existing just because someone started believing in Him. Sure, there have been lots of 'gods' in human history that have found a place in various religions because they popped up out of man's fertile imagination. But the real, true and absolute God who is there is so different and opposite to man's ideas that He could not possibly have come from the mind of man. The entire history of our universe is just a fleeting second in the mind of God. The true God of the Bible is so different in character from man that to claim that He came from man's imagination is to be very ignorant about the nature of God and the nature of Man. Just as to claim that a computer was designed by a monkey shows ignorance of both computers and monkeys. We did not create God — God created us. It is humbling to discover that there is One far greater than us, who made us. But it is not degrading like believing that our ancestors were animals that crawled out of the slime to evolve into man. The fact that God created man not only makes man subservient to his Divine Master but also gives man dignity. May be you don’t like the idea of man being a servant but it is true. No person is free. Everyone is servant of something. Try not to be angry, selfish, and proud or whatever happens to be your moral weakness for a few days and you will see what is meant by being a servant or having to do things you cant seem to help.
God sent His Son Jesus Christ to die on the cross of Calvary to take the punishment for our sins and thus open the way for us to return to our rightful Master-a loving God, who does not want to exploit us but share His life and joy with all those who accept and believe in Him through His Son Jesus Christ. Will you not change your mind and trust Him for salvation from your sins and to receive eternal life today and now? Look at some of the promises of God in the Bible, His word, for you: - *Come unto Me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28.*That if you confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord", and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Rom.10:9-10.*If we confess our sins. He is faithful and righteous and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." 1John1: 9. *For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."Rom.6: 23. *Behold, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation." 2Corinthians 6: 2. *Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2Corinthians 5:17. ******************************************************************************************************** A.Othniel. Calvary Centre. Tel. & fax: 022-536 7319/537 7106. E-mail: aocc@vsnl.com. *For |