We need the life of Jesus in us

We

need the life of Jesus in us

Most of us need to

wear hats that have, "This space for rent" or

"Too far gone," stenciled on them. And then

there is the infamous paraphrased saying: "They

still have me to kick around!"

The only

reason any of us have any hope of making it through the

day or through the night is not because we are looking

for loopholes in the Bible, but because we realize that

our own goodness is, as the songwriter once sang about,

"There's a dead skunk in the middle of the road,

smelling up the highway."

Explanation?

The best we can offer to a holy God is our sins. Our

salvation is like someone going through a caution light

just before it turns red or someone escaping walls of

fire in a burning building, a branch pulled out of the

fire. The Apostle Peter under inspiration put it this

way, "If those who have spiritual life are barely

saved then what will become of those who don't?"

There are those who have discovered God's mercy at the

last moment of their lives, but why wait?

The ideas

that there are just as many hypocrites on the golf course

as there are in the church may be valid, but the latter

aren't doing it "in the name of the Lord!" And

the Apostle Paul didn't make a poverty vow, but stated

that he didn't make a dime when he ministered to the

Corinthian church. How different now!

While some

of our Jewish brethren are still looking for their

Messiah, the Messianic Jews and believing Gentiles have

already "been there and done that!"

True belief

and true repentance through the totally unearned grace of

God is the only way.

For

example, the best thing for anyone who is one of

"America's most wanted" and for anyone, is to

turn ourselves in to our God and Saviour and find

forgiveness through His Son! May God bless the reader.

Norm J.

Barlow

Fayetteville