Ray Comfort recently released another eye opening video, explaining to people that not one of us is a good person. We have all broken the commands of Christ. There was only one good person, and that was Jesus Christ.
You see, each of us entered this world as sinners. We were born that way, because the first man created , Adam, sinned. - He broke the one command God had given. The punishment for breaking God's commands is death. He had given Adam everything he needed and told him that there was only one tree that Adam could not eat from. However, he gave Adam the ability to choose right or wrong - free choice. He didn't want to force Adam to love and obey Him, but rather to choose to love and obey Him. Adam chose to disobey and therefore we live with the consequences of sin. - Death.
Jesus came and lived a blameless, sinless life. He is the only one that could pay our debt penalty for sin, because he is the only one that has not sinned. When He died on the cross he took our penalty and gave us a choice, to either believe in Him and repent of our sins, accepting His gift of Salvation or choose to ignore it and continue our lives. His gift of Salvation is an offer to spend eternity in heaven with Him.
As I watched "Genius" I was saddened by the amount of people who have no idea where they are headed for eternity. There are only two places we will spend eternity, whether you believe in them or not is irrelevant. They are places and someday we will stand before God and will have to take the consequences of what we have done - the choices we have made.
The morals of today are so low compared to what they used to be, because most people have no moral code to follow. God gave us a moral law to follow and it is written on all our hearts. For example we all believe murdering others is wrong. However the people who do not believe in God have no reason to follow that moral law, because according to the evolutionary worldview, it is "survival of the fittest."They are looking out for No. 1 - themselves. God did not make us to live this way, however He gave us the free choice to choose how we will live.
How will you live your life? Who will you live it for? Where will you spend eternity?
Great thoughts, Devin! I have heard some buzz about "Genius" but haven't watched it myself. John Lennon's life seems like such a sad waste--he was an amazing singer and did some great things for others, but in the end none of it was for God.
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me of a passage from C.S. Lewis's "Mere Christianity": "The principle runs through all life from top to bottom, Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in."
-Abby
www.differenthomeschoolgirl.blogspot.com
Hi Abby,
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoyed "Genius".
Thanks for sharing that quote :) How true!