20 - Apr - 2011

how would you answer the question?

Date: 20 April, 2011  |  Posted By: Brian  |  Category: encounter, Faith

How is a person made right with God?  What does it take for the heart of a man to be changed and forever made clean and whole with his Creator.   How a person answers that question speaks volumes about how they see God, how they see themselves, how they relate to others, and how they live life, and where they find their joy.

Placing them in the wrong order will drive a person to frustration, emptiness, and despair.  The Bible gives a clear answer for which comes first and what happens next.  That answer that confounds the wisest of men because it is the opposite of everything that seems right and natural.

How would you arrange them?  In what order do they happen for someone to be made right with God?

  • jennifer

    When we have the faith to receive what God says we have the desire for God to follow his will and show obedience toward him and he shows us favor in our faith and obedience towards him. Also when God shows us favor we deisre his ways and we follow in obedience and faith to receive what he has for us. I know that I must repent and obey and sometimes I fail again and God is there to pick me up and help dust me off but I deisre to obey and follow him and he knows my heart and the intention behind my action or failure. I know that the unconditional love and the depth of God’s grace and coming to an understading of both is what changed my heart. I try to be transparent as though it is difficult with the walls that I had built over the years that I have had to tear down. I see myself loved and forgiven although that has not always been the case. I have asked myself many times am I worthy and why am I worthy? I had to show grace to myself in order to show it to others I had to get rid of the lists that I had been taught to make to measure my worthiness and my salvation. Once I got rid of my list I stopped making lists for others to measure up to and it was then I felt free and able to experience joy because I wasn’t always trying to measure up and falling short.