Nurturing Faith
Ron Ross
May 21, 2011
Believing the Gospel for you every day is your greatest FAITH challenge! "By entering through FAITH into what God has always wanted to do for us---set us right with Him, make us fit for Him---we have it all together with God because of our Master Jesus. And that's not all: We throw open our doors to God and discover at the SAME MOMENT that He has already thrown open His door to us. We find ourselves standing where we always hoped we might stand---out in the wide open spaces of God's Grace and Glory, standing tall and shouting our praise" Romans 5:1-2 The Message, some emphasis mine.
God says, by FAITH you are already saved from an eternity without Me...You are justified before Me by FAITH in My Son, not by living well.
As My child, you will inherit a place in My Kingdom, a seat at my table, a dance card for My party. That's My gift to you. It's guaranteed.
When you were justified before Me by FAITH and guaranteed heaven (now and later) as My gift, My Spirit made you alive to Me and the life of My Son. He regenerated you. He gave you a new heart, a new and potentially consuming desire to love Me and others at any cost to yourself.
Justification makes you My child.
Regeneration provides the power to live like My child.
And because justification is always accompanied by regeneration, every justified person's way of relating will evidence the presence of divine life; though that may be visible only to Me.
When your FAITH leads to a consuming desire to love Me and others at any cost, when your FAITH is accompanied by a consistent pattern of good works, your life in this world will not be wasted, and your life in the next world (though it can be accessed at any moment in time by Faith) will be uniquely BLESSED!"
In the grip of Papa's Grace, Ron Ross
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