Psalm 50:7-15
“Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O
Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God. Not
for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually
before me. I will not accept a bull from your
house or goats from your folds. For every beast of
the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I
know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is
mine. “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for
the world and its fullness are mine. Do I eat the flesh
of bulls or drink the blood of goats? Offer to God a
sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, and
call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall
glorify me.”
Many years have passed since I read the difference
between religion and Christianity. Religion is all about “do,” what can
I do for God? Christianity is all about “done,” what God has done for
us, by sending His only Son Jesus Christ the Messiah to pay for our sins.
Jesus said as He was dying, it is finished, and what He meant was death was
conquered, He had overcome the grave, for He rose and was seen by more than
5000, before departing earth to be at the right hand of His Father. He
defeated sin and paid our full price the Father required to have a relationship
with Him. Now the ball is in your court, will you accept the gift of
Salvation and Redemption?
Are
will you take the route of religion, do you understand that was what the nation
of Israel was doing, and they were trying to earn God’s favor? As a
people, they were willing to do as commanded by Moses and give God an offering,
but they were not ready to give Him themselves. Many a person who goes by
the title Christian has no plans to present himself or herself to God’s purpose
for life on planet earth. But if you want to have fellowship with the
Father, you must desire a life of obedience to the Father, then you will fulfill the
purposes that God had in mind when he made you.
My
personal walk with the Lord had been a failure until I learned to tell God from
my heart, I can’t live the Christ life, and I’ve come to understand only Jesus
did it correctly. Dear Jesus, you can do it all in and through me, so I
give up and am submitting my desires and will to You. I still have a long
way to go, but I can do all things through Christ.
From the
Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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