What if...
What if there is a God? ONE God, not many. Not the cosmos, not the "spirit of oneness", not the awareness ofn amorphic, noncommittal "higher power, but the ONE GOD: The Alpha and the Omega - Almighty God. The creator of the heaven and the earth. The LORD.
What if Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life?
What if Jesus is the only way, like He said He is? Our ONLY way to eternity - to heaven - what if He is telling the truth?
What if we CANNOT be fully whole without accepting His gift? What if our life ends here without Him?
What if we cannot ever know, embody, express, understand, or share the fullness of love or life without Him?
What if we are living our life under a veil that can only be lifted by the grace and love of Jesus? What if we can't see through it until we turn on the light that can only be found through Jesus?
What if it is as easy as a prayer. A hope. Our arms reaching toward heaven in faith that Jesus will take our hands and lead us to Him?
What do we have to lose by embracing the mere possibility of these "WHAT-IF's"? What do we have to lose if we don't embrace Christ and these "what-if's" are real? Only our soul, our eternity, the purpose of our life here on earth.
What if today is the last day we have to contemplate the what-if's in our life?
WHAT IF?
posted by lachen at 10:40 PM
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What if living right had no eternal rewards...would you live badly otherwise?
That one has always gotten me.
Thank God all it really takes is that leap of faith to believe and the little prayer of faith.
as the song says: It all comes down to a man dying on a cross, saving the world, rising from the dead, doing what he said he would do.
There is only one G-d.
Ezekiel 37:23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their G-d. [24] And David My servant [shall be] king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. (KJV)
Christians and Jews agree that chapter 37 of Ezekiel is messianic. The object of verse 24 of Ezekiel 37 is the Messiah, and it is clear that the Messiah is G-d’s servant, and not G-d Himself.
Exodus 20:2 I [am] the LORD thy G-d, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. [3] Thou shalt have no other gods before me. (KJV)
Contemplate the importance of this commandment for a moment. "No other gods before Him." Christians will contend that Jesus IS G-d, claiming they don't have any other gods before Him.
However as noted in the N.T., it is plain to see that not only was Jesus separate from G-d, but he was NOT G-d. What do we have if we pray to Jesus? We have polytheism
G-d is infinite, and incorporeal. To take on physical form would limit the limitless, and He would not take on physical form because that might have led the Israelites to idolatry.
Sigh. Praying to Jesus is not polytheism, Torah. It is freedom. It is light. Jesus is Lord. The holy Trinity describes the character of the Lord as the "three-in-one": the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Embracing the reality of the Lord Jesus Christ as our savior as a corporeal being is a natural extension of the triumverate character of our creator as the Bible teaches it to us.
Jesus is Lord. You're right. There is only one God. - Lachen
great post! I look forward to reading more. You have a beautiful blog design. Love the colors and layout of your blog.
have a great day!
Melanie
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I completely agree, we must trust that God is sovereign. Vyrso has many books related to this topic.
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