GOSPEL LIGHT #671

Wise For A Lifetime --- A Fool For All Eternity 

There was a man who only had a week to live in his house before he would move into his new home where he would reside for the rest of his life. Absurdity of absurdities, instead of focusing on his new dwelling, he devoted his time, energies, and resources to furnishing his old house that he was about to vacate.  

It's a made-up story. It never really happened. But, you know, in one sense, that is a true story in many people's lives. Many people take great pains to provide for this life. "I don't just think of this year. No, I think ahead. I think and plan for 40 years from now." They would say.

The problem is that that's all for them. They never think and plan for the next 40 million years or the next 40 billion years or the next 40 trillion years and more. They are wise for a lifetime but a fool for all eternity.

My friend, be truly wise. Don't just think of this year. Don't just think of this life. Think of the life after this life in eternity. 

Avail yourself of the eternal life that is in Christ Jesus. He died for your sins and was raised again from the dead. That if you repent and trust in Him, life eternal will be yours.  
 

GOSPEL LIGHT #670

How to trust in Christ for salvation?

The Bible does not explain how to trust Christ because trusting in Christ for salvation spontaneously follows by "spiritual reflex" (as I call it) the moment a sinner sees his helplessness in saving himself and realizes the sufficiency of Christ's work on the cross for one's salvation. The man who sees that he is in a hopeless building, engulfed and swallowed whole by a raging fire, would just instinctively jump into a sure and stable safety net waiting for him below, knowing full well that it alone could save him. He doesn't ask "how do I jump in there?" No, he just does it. Pushed by his own necessity. He is more concerned about getting himself deposited into the net than anything else in the world.

GOSPEL LIGHT #669

 A Melting Candle Is Just Like The Lord Jesus Christ

A melting candle is a picture of unselfish and self-giving love. There it is giving itself away for the good of all around it; whereas, before, there was darkness, now there is light.

There, on the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ "melted" and gave Himself for us all that the way of salvation might be paved and lighted --- that sinners might find their way to God.

The way to God is not dark, dim, and impossible to find...if you go by the light of what Christ did on the cross for you.