Monday, November 10, 2008

No Regrets, No Forgiveness

Many times in life we stumble, but when we do, how do we get back up? There are a few ways you can. 1)Ask God for forgiveness and start clean. 2) Continue stumbling and forget about what God wants you to do. 3) Start a life where you believe that such things are alright with God.

So many times people create this new imagine for God, like he has changed or altered his commandments based upon new times. This imagage of God is WRONG! God is the same God as he has always been and we should obey his commandments like he wanted everyone in all of time to do. The world has made divorce, adultery, pre-maritial sex, abortion, and homo-sexuality a way of life nowdays. Examples like those are not a part of God's plan, and when we believe such things or act on them with no regrets then we are not forgiven.

When we commit sin God will forgive us, if we ask for forgiveness that is. When we commit sin and keep doing so with a mindset that God will forgive us so we can just keep on sinning, this is not right. Below is a great verse to use as an example of how it is wrong to believe that sinning with knowledge of wrongdoing is not worth forgiving to God.

Hebrews 10:26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,”

In the verse below it describes how when you are a true Christian, you hold your confidence in God and do not forget him. By the word confidence, this describes trusting in him, following his commmandments, and not letting the worldly ways conform to your mind. God will always hold power over the world, and though he has been left out in many ways, it is up to us to show the world how true Christians act and what they believe in.

Hebrews 3:14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.”

If we support groups or acitivites that would not honor God, how is that helping to spread the word of Christ to others? When we deliberately sin or believe that if something makes someone happier it is right, how are we obeying what God commands? The answers are in the bible and can not be erased or changed. Don't let the world try and change your mind on how God truly is. Don't make God and Christians out to be something we are not.

God is a loving God who wants to have a relationship with all of his children, and wants the best for them. He deserves to be worshipped and desires such. Christians are supposed to try to act like Christ was; a calm, loving, forgiving person who spreads the world of God. I encourage everyone to remember this and for the next time you stumble to get up, ask for forgiveness, and start over clean with God and yourself

Prayer: God, please help me to live a life that glorifies you. When I stumble lift me up, and help me to ask for forgiveness and to turn to you. Let me not conform to the ways of the world, but conform to the ways you want for my life.

2 comments:

Chad and Julie said...
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Chad and Julie said...

Lauren, I appreciate your explanation of the Hebrew passages and especially the balance of truth and grace with which you write.