Skip to main content

Too Good To Be True


               The gospel is definitely too good to be true, but the reality is that it is! I have been caught up in a scam as I attempted to sell a piano on-line.  The purchaser did not want to bring cash but insisted on sending a check.  He was okay if I would wait until the check cleared my bank to complete the transaction.  I thought it was strange; but when I finally received the check and discovered that it was written for more than double the cost I had asked, I knew something was sketchy.  It was too good to be true that someone was willing to pay so much more than the asking price.  A friend told me to google that scam, and I found out it was a common occurrence. Skepticism is vital in the world we live in.
               So what about the too-good-to-be-true Gospel?  This scam depended on my greed to find a way to bank some extra cash, but how does that small scam compare to my entire debt of sin being paid for completely by my lack of skepticism?  Purely by faith every unholy thought, word, or deed I have ever uttered can be totally cancelled when I recognize that I am without hope except for Jesus Christ.  This is beyond the imagination of man.  It is far beyond any scheme we could ever come up with.  Jesus Christ understands that I am utterly doomed beyond hope if He doesn’t come in and save me completely.  He had to do all the work for my salvation because I could do nothing for myself.
               Reconciliation with God through Christ is by far the most stunning reality that I have experienced in my life on earth.  I’ve been to beautiful places in this world.  I have walked through the forests of Sweden and felt that I was in a fairy tale.  I have ridden horseback through Aspen forests in Colorado.  I have flown into a fantasy village in Scotland. The most beautiful place I have ever experienced is the Grand Tetons in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  Each time I have experienced a once in a lifetime journey, I am amazed and stunned.  Yet, all of that pales in comparison to reconciliation with the Son of God!  My future will include walking streets of gold in paradise with Jesus. 
               Paul drove home these truths to the Corinthians in 2 Corinthians 5:18-19.  All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.  Not only have I been personally reconciled to God through faith in Jesus Christ, I have become God’s ambassador to share the gift of reconciliation with others.  I am blown away by the immense consequences of reconciliation.  I am convinced that there is nothing more important to living in this world than to recognize that the goodness it contains is a remnant of the good God who created it.  His love and goodness compel me to desire reconciliation with Him and to please him by sharing the journey I have personally traveled in being reconciled to Him with others.
               Reconciliation with God is the one too-good-to-be-true reality that is absolutely true!

Copyright © 2016.  Deborah R Newman teatimeforyoursoul.com  All Rights Reserved.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Pilgrimage that Started with Tears

                Who would think I would shed tears deciding to set out on a wonderful journey that I have longed to take for many years?   Before I was ready to fully accept God’s invitation for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, I had to journey to a place of agreement between what my soul wanted and what the Lord wanted for me.   For years I have been declining opportunities to travel to Israel—not because I didn’t want to go but because I wanted to go with my husband by my side.   I know that God could have arranged that for me, but instead He asked me to accept that He wanted me to be willing to go and leave everything behind.   When I was asked to make a decision about going on a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, God gave me this verse in answer to my prayer -- Debi, observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are cr...
2 comments
Read more

The Effects of the Holy Spirit

The Effects of the Holy Spirit               Can you imagine that the very Spirit of God is given to humans who believe in God’s gift of salvation through Jesus Christ’s death, burial and resurrection?  Just thinking about the Holy Spirit makes me realize that I can do better.  I am not left to my own resources when it comes to praying, having faith, obeying God, doing what He asks me to do.                 No one understands the depth of sin’s effect on a soul better than God.  Every action He takes has been to reduce the effect of evil that was unleashed into our world when sin was merged into His perfect universe.  We never saw it coming. Even Adam and Eve did not see what hit them.  God has counteracted with the effect of faith after sin by enabling sinners to be affected by His ho...
Post a Comment
Read more

One Year

            One week, one month, and now one year has passed since my world was turned up-side-down.   At first time felt like an eternity, each day the reality that my beloved husband was no longer with me here on earth drug on and felt like it would never resolve.   Now that a significant amount of time has passed, it doesn’t seem possible that we have lived through one whole year without him.   How did we get here?   Where have we been?   How did the earth revolve completely around the sun?   We are surviving.   We are grateful.   We have had a lot of help from heaven and from earth.             I have discovered more intimately how death is a major spiritual formation in our lives.   Whether we are deeply spiritual or not, facing death forces us to consider spiritual realities.   Our souIs are opened to a deeper u...
1 comment
Read more