Man shall live by faith. There is no other way to access life without faith. Hebrews Eleventh Chapter tells so aptly how significant faith is in the sight of God, the Giver of life, saying “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.” (Hebrews 11:6)
It is impossible to please God without faith. Why shall we please God? It’s because He first loved us despite of our weaknesses that we could not but disobey Him. God is forever love. He loved to make an oath with Abraham who obeyed and went to the land of promise even though he didn’t know where he was going.
Man shall be forgiven. All is born in Adam. Fatal sicknesses in man are guilt, despair, and shame. No one has been taught to be guilt-ridden, depressed, and dishonorable. Man is born that way. Forgiveness is the most essential and indispensable part of life.
Human skills and achievements in various forms even the great fortunes and fame cannot get it over with. Things of the world seems offering much but delivers nothing. The world is in complete darkness and blindness.
God has been shining a great light out of dark world through the Son Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the light of the world. He came from the Father according to the scriptures and went back to the Father through the cross in Calvary according to the scriptures.
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” (John 17:20-21)
The cross of Jesus is the offense of the world for it is the symbol of shame, guilt, and despair. He bore and died for all our weaknesses, transgressions, and sins. After three days of death and burial in the cold and lonely tomb, our Lord Jesus Christ rose again with the power of God.
Everything has completed for the redemption of man in Christ Jesus. Faith, yes only faith is the agent for this whole process: from the understanding of the love of God amply demonstrated on the cross to the acceptance of that love and the possession of eternal life.
“I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. ‘Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.’” (John 17:22-24)
God calls the children of light “friends.” Anyone who is in Christ is no longer enemy for they have been imparted eternal life and have crossed from death to life.
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