New Life in Christ Jesus...Are you ready?

You were like lost sheep. Now you have come back to the shepherd and bishop of your lives. .......1 Peter 2:25 ( GW.)

Genesis 1:14  Then God said, "Let there be lights in the sky to separate the day from the night. They will be signs and will mark religious festivals, days, and years. Is the end-time is coming? When?

We went  to see Victor Koh at SGH at block 4 room 12 , bed no. 2 yesterday. I saw and admired all thing that world can afford to prolong live in this world as much as we know how. We are not willing to leave this world and our love one. We want o to stay healthy and strong as long as possible. We know that one day sooner or later we will have to leave this world and our love ones and we know this is a certain thing but we live in this world like we will never die and want to be here forever. We are against the truth that all people have sinned, they have fallen short of God's glory and the wage of sin is dead. We all refuse to understand this truth and want to live here and enjoy the "trap" that the world offered and get stuck in this world we grasp and do not want to let it goes until we do not realize that we are trapped and stuck to this world. .....really?.....I come to the question that " Are we ready? Since dead is certain." We thought ourselves out of reality and God's truth because we don't really understand the way of the Almighty. One time in the past 2000 over year ago some of our forefathers had seen God in the flesh and His Name is Jesus Christ walked this world and taught many of His disciples and recorded in the book we called "the New Testament". From the story told we have sight of His glory through His life on earth but we don't understand deep enough what the Lord want to tell us.

22. Christ never committed any sin. He never spoke deceitfully.
23  Christ never verbally abused those who verbally abused him. When he suffered, he didn't make any threats but left everything to the one who judges fairly.
24  Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross so that freed from our sins, we could live a life that has God's approval. His wounds have healed you.
25  You were like lost sheep. Now you have come back to the shepherd and bishop of your lives. ......1 Peter 2:22-25

We read "22. Christ never committed any sin. He never spoke deceitfully. " Some can say that they understand what these word mean but when I meditated on this verse I asked myself that  "Am I,as a sinner, really understand what this verse is really mean?" If I understand this verse then I will understand even more of our Lord Jesus Christ and His Salvation.....

John 14:5  Thomas (one of His closed disciple) said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you're going. So how can we know the way?"

John 14:9-12
9. Jesus replied, "I have been with all of you for a long time. Don't you know me yet, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 
10  Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? What I'm telling you doesn't come from me. The Father, who lives in me, does what he wants. 
11  Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe me because of the things I do. 
12  "I can guarantee this truth: Those who believe in me will do the things that I am doing. They will do even greater things because I am going to the Father. 

 Thanks be to God again for the Lord's omniscience, foreknow that we will not understand His Word as it means to be as He gave us and we may interpret wrongly in our ways according to our sinful nature ..... so after we accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior that is the first step of our commitment to God. Even we are not faithful because of our sinful nature but God is faithful He starts to sanctify us while we walk with Him during we are in this world.

John 14:16-18
16.  I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper who will be with you forever. 
17  That helper is the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot accept him, because it doesn't see or know him. You know him, because he lives with you and will be in you. 
18  "I will not leave you all alone. I will come back to you. 

John 14:12-13  "I can guarantee this truth: Those who believe in me will do the things that I am doing. They will do even greater things because I am going to the Father. 

13. I will do anything you ask the Father in my name so that the Father will be given glory because of the Son. 

Facts we face when we are in this world...

1. All will die. Only in the Bible told us that few did not face death.

2. All fear dead...the real meaning is to separate from God and the mystery of life after dead.

3. Death is not far from living.....there is no specific time for anyone......no matter young, old, rich, poor etc. If the time to go no one can stop. We don't know our timing.

4. No one knows when they are going to die and what will happen after that.

Christian believes we have spirit and the physical body just as a tent the spirit live in. 

6. We've all become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us shrivel like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind. 7  No one calls on your name or tries to hold on to you. You have hidden your face from us. You have let us be ruined by our sins. 8  But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our potter. We are the work of your hands. .........Isaiah 64:6,-8

We have only to main choices to choose during we are in this world.

1.Walk the way that God will us to do...or we die but if I don't understand God will for me to do. Seek His will, listen to His Spirit, read His letter (the Bible) and ask (prayer).

2. God creates us but He as well gives us a freedom of choices whether follow Him or want to walk your own way and separate from Him forever.

1 Corinthians 4:5-6 

5. Therefore, don't judge anything before the appointed time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will also bring to light what is hidden in the dark and reveal people's motives. Then each person will receive praise from God. 

6. Brothers and sisters, I have applied this to Apollos and myself for your sake. You should learn from us not to go beyond what is written in Scripture. Then you won't arrogantly place one of us in opposition to the other. 

Isaiah 64:8  But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our potter. We are the work of your hands. 

Romans 9:21  A potter has the right to do whatever he wants with his clay. He can make something for a special occasion or something for everyday use from the same lump of clay. 

Praise the LORD, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Amen.