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We accepted Jesus as our savior and that His power is available to us to reconcile us to God. The obvious question to this statement is Why?
Well having just completed step 1, and admitting our powerlessness over the crisis of our lives, and realizing that we needed help, we reached out to the only source available beyond ourselves and other people around us. We reached out to Jesus and He met us.
It may well be that some reached out more in hope than in positive assurance of His being there, but then found that He fulfilled us in so many areas, we could not deny His presence.
You see God loves the world so much, that He gave His only son that
anyone who will receive Him can have everlasting life.
This is the true heart of God ......love, and out of that heart of
love, He continually reaches out to man to bring
him to the knowledge that he does not have to live any longer in the ways of
this world. God never created this world with sin in it, rather sin entered as
a result of
God's first created man disobeying
God's word and has continued its downhill slide ever since.
We know the results of this sin in our own circumstances.
We have experienced the traumas of this world's ways and have found them lacking. Everywhere we look we see people in conflict with their surroundings, man in disharmony with his neighbor and all of this the direct result of his being disobedient to God.
Some have seen
God as a tyrannical father figure with a big stick and a loud voice
threateningly saying thou shalt not! ---while
in reality the reverse is true. God
loves us so much that in His infinite mercy He gave His son to be a ransom of
all who would reach out to Him.
As you continue in this program keep the thought ever before you that "God loves me". You may say at this point in time how is that possible? I have done this and that and am so bad that I don't deserve His love.
That is just the
point - All of us
have things in our lives which would keep us from accepting Christ as our
Savior, but love reached out to us just as we
were, and as lacking in understanding as we were, Love reached out and cradled
us to Himself and we experienced the reality of God's love.
There were times when we thought that God must have turned His face from us, but then the reality of His love burst through our troubled feelings. We hoped in His words, "I will never leave you nor forsake you" and we knew that as He had accepted me just as I was - so even now God accepts me just as I am. God loves me just as I am. How, ?
Because love cannot do
anything else except love. No matter how many times He is rejected no matter
how many times He is hurt, still love reaches out from the heart of God to all
who would receive Him.
Now that we have received Him and chosen to allow Him to be master of our lives, how much more will He show love to us, if we are His children.
Jesus: Verily verily, I say
unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. John 3:3
Jesus: Except a man be born again of water, and of the Spirit, he cannot
enter into the kingdom of God. John 3:5
Jesus: Marvel not that I said unto thee: ye must be born again.
John 3:7
Jesus: God is a spirit, and they that worship Him, must worship Him in
spirit and in truth. John 4:24
And
so to be born again, we simply and sincerely ask the Lord to come and live in
us by His spirit, to be Lord of our lives and our Savior.
