This week marks another anticipated time of fun. The Preble County Fair! I have always wanted to enter some produce just to see how I might do, but it never happens. I just don't get around to it. One cause for my delay to enter may simply be, "What if I don't win?"
That is the mentality that I believe some folks have when it comes to surrendering their lives to Christ. "What if I do this thing and then mess up?" Good question, and I have liberating news! The truth of God's Word is that we are not saved because we don't mess up. We are all sinners, separated from a Holy God. Romans 3:23 It is the Lord's death, burial, and resurrection that has purchased our forgiveness. We will mess up, and as the Holy Spirit convicts us, we don't lose what we had received, we confess and repent and are forgiven based on the the finished work of our Lord and Savior.
I am glad that my reward is not based on what someone else thinks, but based on what God knows.
We are winners in Christ. Don't ever let the Devil make you think otherwise.
Philippians 3:13-14 (NKJV)
13
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing
I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to
those things which are ahead,
14 I
press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Blessed to be a Christian, Renee's husband, dad to Drew and daughter in law Ashley. Aiden and Eli's papaw. Dad to daughter Stacy and husband Kyle Herrmann, Koby and Jordy's Papaw. Blessed to pastor the First Southern Baptist Church of Camden, Ohio since 1993. Not a great pastor or preacher, but am honored to preach a great gospel about a great Savior. Jesus Saves! Do you know Him? Romans 3:23;6:23;5:8;10:9-10;10:13. Check it out, He can change your life! www.camdencornerofhope.com
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