Will You Receive Him Today?

I am thankful today that the Lord Jesus has inundated us with His incredible love. His love for us is unwavering, unchanging, undying, and without conditions. God proved His love for us when He gave His only son, Jesus, to suffer and die for a world that did not receive Him nor appreciate Him. He proved His love then. God does not only love us when we do what is right, but He loves us when we are unlovable; He loves us when we are living far apart from Him and His ways. That is the us that He died for. If we are put together in any way, it is because He took the emptiness & brokenness of every one of our lives & put us back together. Everyone has being lost, empty, and broken, and if they cannot see themselves as ever having been that, they are deceived; living in the bondage of self-righteousness. The Bible in Rev. chapter 3 calls this group of people "...wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked." We are all continually in desperate need of the power of Christ in our lives in order to live a life of victory. Without the finished work of the cross being received into each of our lives, we will live a life of hopelessness;  in bondage to sin and defeat without ever experiencing victory. The victorious life does not come from the church. The church could not bring you victory if it wanted to. There is only one who can break the stronghold's of addictions, lust, anger, etc...off of our lives, and it is Jesus. The church is vital and absolutely necessary to the work of Christ because we are a conduit that brings the message of the Gospel to a lost and hurting world, however, only Jesus has the power to break the yoke of bondage off of the lost & hurting lives. Going to church is necessary, but having a deep and meaningful relationship with the one who died for us is imperative for our eternity. Many churches are full of people who have religion but no relationship. It is so sad that many will not make it into heaven because they trust in a church and not the living God. Relationship is everything to a Christian believer; without it you're really not a believer, but one who has been deceived into thinking that paying your dues of time and money to a church will get you into heaven. A true Christian is being transformed regularly into the image of Christ because God's Holy Spirit lives within him. One of the saddest things in life to me, is to know some of the most incredible people on earth who reject a relationship with Christ, and choose an eternity in hell separated from the very one who died to rescue them from that awful place. The Bible makes it clear that Jesus is the only way to get heaven, yet many wonderful people will not go to heaven because they reject a relationship with Him. That makes me very sad. How much more sad do you think that this makes God? He said in the Word that it is not His will that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9  He died to rescue you from destruction...Will you receive Him as your Lord and Savior today?