Each morning I pray for my family and friends. I also pray for every person I know online. Whether I have met them or not. Whether they share my beliefs or not. God loves them all, and so do I. Agreeing/not agreeing is not an issue.
I pray for all my friends/contacts who are Christians, that they continue proclaiming His Gospel in whatever circumstance they find themselves, and that we all, as Christians support and encourage one another.
I also pray for all my friends/contacts who are not Christians (some are dyed in the wool atheists/antitheists) and those who are not sure what they think (some are agnostic, others are as my father would have described callithumpian) and there are those who think they are Christian but are actually trapped in legalistic religion and cults. I pray that they will listen to the Holy Spirit, as He calls them to Christ, and that they are released from their various bondages and find freedom in Him.
It distresses me that Jesus is not enough for people, that they feel His sacrificial death is not enough, that they have to “make up” that deficit with their own efforts or with doctrines that has Him doing things later.
Our works, our righteousness is as filthy rags. How could what we do make any difference to our righteousness? Only He is righteous. Only he can impute His righteousness to us. Therefore instead of seeing the wretches we are, God sees the righteousness of His Son, and we are acceptable to Him.
God talks about the supremacy of His Son in Hebrews 1. 1Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. 3He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
The Son is above all. God says so.
Likewise, it distresses me that people do not “trust” the Bible, the word of God. The translations have been corrupted. The Bible is incomplete. There is now new light that the Bible doesn’t cover.
Trouble is that some of these people are putting their trust in “extra Biblical sources”, works that have been written by modern day prophets. And the trouble there is that these prophets are false. You only have to go through their works and find ONE mistake, where they have spoken falsely. One mistake is all you need to show that they are not inspired as they have claimed. They are deceivers.
The Bible, the word of God, is not a science book. It is not a text book. It is about Jesus. It gives testimony to Him. And as He is all we need, the Bible is all we need.
It does not teach us to drive a car, or mend your broken piece of furniture. But it does contain what we need to learn about our Saviour, about the Gospel, which is life to us. It contains His commandments of love, which is what we should be showing to God, and humanity.
God loved us, wretched as we are, so much that His Son sacrificed Himself for us, to reconcile us to His Father. He died for our sins, He was buried, He rose again, the Victor over death. All this is in the Bible. This is what we need.
Jesus is enough for us. The Bible is enough for us.
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