Where do you start if you want to discover God’s purpose for your life? How do you know if you are on the right path or if you are following the wrong road? God’s purpose for humanity is peace, joy in spite of circumstances and abundant life.
Step 1: God’s purpose: peace and Life
Only when man is justified the guilt of sin will be taken away and that makes a way for peace with the Creator. There is more in this God given peace than merely a cessation of enmity. There is friendship and loving kindness from God and the curse of enmity will be broken completely and man begins to enjoy peace with God. “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Rom 5:1.
God gave us Jesus Christ to suffer and die as the great propitiation or expiatory sacrifice, so that we might not die by the sentence of the law. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Jn 3:16. This is the unspeakable happiness of all true believers that they are saved from the eternal miseries of hell because they are totally pardoned and they will be entitled to the joys of heaven. “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more aabundantly.”Jn10:10.
Step 2: The problem: Our separation
It is our choice that resulted in separation from God. God created us in His own image so that we will have fellowship with Him and have an abundant life. He also gave us a will and a freedom of choice either to obey Him or not. Even if we disobey and make a choice with our freedom in our willful way we are making a choice and this separate us form God. It is SIN that breeds a quarrel between man and God and creates that great gulf and enmity. The Holy, righteous, awesome, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent God can not be at peace with a sinner while he continues to be sinning and under the guilt of sin. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” Rom 3:23. “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Rom 6:23.
Out attempts to reach God has resulted in total failure; and people have tried many ways to bridge the gap between themselves and God by their good works, religions, Philosophies and morality. “There is a way that seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Prov 14:12. “But your iniquities have separated between you and God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.” Isa 59:2.
Step 3: God’s Bridge: The Cross
Jesus Christ died on the Cross and rose from the grave; and He paid the penalty for our sin and bridged the gap between man and God. “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” 1 Tim 2:5. “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.”1 Pet 3:18. “But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Rom 5:8. God not only proved or evidenced His love, but magnified it and made it very illustrious for His glory. This is the greatest wonder and administration, and humanity will not be able to fathom God’s Love that He would give His one and only Son for mankind! God in His love has provided the one and only way for mankind to have peace with God. Now it is up to each personal to make a choice. Choice either to live eternally or perish.
Step 4: Our response: Receive Christ
Where are you now? Are you living in sin and rebellion and separated from God? Or do you have peace with God, accepting His free gift of salvation? One must trust Jesus Christ as Lord and Savoir and receive Him into our lives by personal invitation. “Behold I stand at the door; and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come into him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” Rev 3:20. “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name.” Jn 1:12. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” Rom 10: 9.
Will you receive Jesus Christ right now?
As a sinner be willing to turn from your sinful ways; believe that Jesus Christ died for your sins on the cross and rose from the grave. Through prayer, invite Jesus Christ to come in and control your life through the Holy Spirit.
Prayer:
Dear Lord Jesus Christ, I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I ask you forgiveness for my sins. I believe You died for my sins and rose from the grave so that I can have eternal life. I want to turn from my sins, and I invite you to come into my heart and be a part of my life by the power of Your Holy Spirit. I want to trust You and follow You all the days of my life as my Lord and Savior. In Christ’s Name I pray; Amen.
If you have prayed this prayer you have the assurance according to God’s word as children of God; “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Rom 10:13. Now you are born into God’s family through the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit who indwells every believer. This is called “regeneration” or “new birth”.
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