I got paid today --- I bet a lot of you did too if you get paid every other Friday like a lot of us do. I got paid what I earned over the past two weeks. I was glad to get what I earned.
But when it comes to the wage scale of God, I am SO glad that I do not get my wages...that I do not get my payment for what I have earned. For that payment would be death...that's what I've earned over the course of my life. Every day I've earned a little bit more of my wages. Every day through the sin in my life, a little more of my wages have been earned, so that on my ulitmate pay day I could get my compensation...eternal death, eternal separation from God.
But thanks be to God, He has had mercy on me! He has a gift for all through Christ Jesus our Lord...the gift of eternal life. It is not what we have earned, it is God's gift. God takes the paycheck of eternal death and voids that check, and instead hands us the beautifully wrapped present of Jesus.
I'll gladly exchange my wages for that gift...who wouldn't?
But when it comes to the wage scale of God, I am SO glad that I do not get my wages...that I do not get my payment for what I have earned. For that payment would be death...that's what I've earned over the course of my life. Every day I've earned a little bit more of my wages. Every day through the sin in my life, a little more of my wages have been earned, so that on my ulitmate pay day I could get my compensation...eternal death, eternal separation from God.
But thanks be to God, He has had mercy on me! He has a gift for all through Christ Jesus our Lord...the gift of eternal life. It is not what we have earned, it is God's gift. God takes the paycheck of eternal death and voids that check, and instead hands us the beautifully wrapped present of Jesus.
I'll gladly exchange my wages for that gift...who wouldn't?
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God's gift of Love and Grace is free. All we must do is read and study God's Word and believe Jesus Christ is our Saviour. My earthly father showed me God's love. He was kind and patient and generous. Our Heavenly Father is so generous that he gives us Eternal Life, a gift my father could not give. Sin tears so many lives apart. The temptations of evil destroys what God try's to build. I can't protect my children. I only pray for God to protect them. A life of sin without God is death, - I do not want to experience earthly life or death without Jesus Christ, my Saviour.
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