WE DON’T NEED RELIGION – WE NEED A PHYSICIAN
We don’t need religion right now. We need a Physician.
(Excerpted from All the King’s Horses)
“God knows your life is hard. He is not seeking to add “religion” to the already heavy burden you are carrying. The good news of the Gospel is that God loves sinners. He loves you already, right now, far more than you can possibly understand. He has loved you since before the day you were born, and He has loved you every day since. He is ready to forgive you for every sinful thing you have ever done, and accept you completely, just the way you are …
Pompous religion be damned! Religion is more foolish to God than it is to you, and frankly, arrogance and phony religion made Jesus furious as He walked the earth. He longs to give you something far better than religion. Any attempt to clean yourself up to be worthy and presentable before coming to Him will only mess things up more. The truth is that you will never be good enough, and you don’t have to be.
God is opposed to the proud but gives grace to the humble. He hates the pretentiousness of those who think they are good enough, and He exalts those who know they aren’t. The Physician can only heal those who are sick, not those who think they are well.
The forgiveness and salvation He holds out to you is not based on any efforts that you can ever achieve. He holds forgiveness and eternal life out to you as a gift, through the provision of the spotless Lamb who died for you, His Son, Jesus Christ.
The gift of the forgiveness for your sins, and of eternal life, is completely free to you. God asks only that you receive His awesome gift, and respond. You respond by telling Him that you know you don’t have what it takes to clean up your act, but that you are grateful for Christ’s loving sacrifice on the cross which has made this gift free to you.
You determine in your heart to turn from your sin and to allow Jesus Christ to take over your life from this point forward. His Spirit will come to live inside of you, and for the first time in your life you will become fully alive, and fully free to be the man or woman He created you to be.
And with regard to all of your insurmountable problems, remember that God runs a Universe. Your problems are no challenge whatsoever to the power of Jesus Christ. Hand your problems, and yourself, over into His good hands.
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