October 23
Gift of Forever Life
Read Romans 5-6
Romans 6:22-23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
WHAT a contrast in this sentence—Paul summarizes his teaching in Romans 6 with this very distinct, plain sentence that makes all the difference in who we are now and who we will be for eternity.
Do you grasp that eternal life is a gift? This is the powerful hope we find in Jesus Christ. When people talk of other religions having the same God, check it out.
No other belief or understanding offers a God, who gave of himself to a cross so he might give us the gift of life.
What’s more, only our God gives his Spirit to help us know him and to live within us, so we can understand how we are to live our lives.
When you begin to deeply absorb the truth of God’s gift into your heart and mind, you begin to grasp what it is to worship him, to obey him, and to follow him in all things.
God is so incredible! He gives life to us forever if we but accept the offer. His gift is a way to turn us completely around, going from a life of death and destruction to an eternal life of hope and peace.
If you have yet to experience that hope and peace, take some time and pray to God. Admit you have done wrong, and you need to change. Trust Jesus to be your Savior. He will give you life forever.
Pause and Consider: what it means to be saved from death.
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