Gratitude

"Knowing the fear of the Lord we persuade men." 2 Chro 5:11

I am grateful for what God has done for me. God wrote the 10 commandments in Stone showing us that the law is unchanging and that these rules where very important. They were important enough that he wrote them down himself. These rules are for our own good and it is good that we should obey them. Proverbs tells us that it will go well with those that obey the law. God is just and merciful. Since God is just he must punish law breaking where it it found. If you have ever broken one of the 10 commandments, lying, stealing, hating, lusting, taking Gods name in vain, making a god of your own liking then you will be guilty on the day of Judgement. God will not clear the guilty. God is merciful. There is only 1 way a God can be merciful and Just. God sent his son who lived a perfect life and gave up his life as a sacrifice. Jesus dieing on the cross is a perfect sacrifice and it is a payment for the law breaking of those that turn away from their sin and turn toward God.

It is like you are standing in a court of law and are guilty and God send his son to run into the court room and pay your fine. You would go free not because you were innocent or good but because your fine was paid. Your fine must be paid before you die. To get your fine paid you must see sin as wretched. You have to hate law breaking. You must turn away from your sin and turn toward God. This is called repentance and faith. If you turn from 1 sin to another sin then you are not free from that sin you just exchanged sin. If a person pays your fine they are going to tell you I just paid that fine do not do that again. This is exactly what God is saying to us. Stop breaking my law since I was kind enough to pay the fine in my own sons blood.

I am so gratiful for God paying my fine that I repented of my sin and now I am warning others of the Judgement to come and being people to recieve the mercy of God by repentance and faith as well.