In order that we may believe and be saved, God has given us His Word. “These are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through His name.”
We need to hear how God truly feels about us for the sake of His Son. We need to hear how He pardoned the sin of the whole world through His Son who suffered and died for us. We need to hear how Christ rose again and promises that we will rise too. We need to hear how His heart yearns for our salvation, and how there is joy in heaven over every single sinner who repents and believes the Gospel. We need to hear how Christ will receive anyone who comes to Him, no matter how dark his past has been. We need to hear how the thief on the cross repented, was forgiven, and entered paradise, all in the same day. Are my sins against God any less than the sins of the thief on the cross? Yet, God has forgiven me too for the sake of His Son who went to the cross for me.
What can be more important than being assured of our salvation by the comforting words of Christ who says all things are now ready? Yet, many cast His words aside thinking they are too busy for them. But “what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” There are countless ways to spend our time, but one thing is needful. “Blessed are they that hear the Word of God, and keep it.”
- Pastor Wyatt Rosebrock