Yes "everything with no holding back" !!!Good morning everyone.
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength "...
He deserves everything we have with no holding anything back as He unselfishly gave all of Himself for us.
God bless you and yours whatever the time of day it is where you are.
I've struggled with this many times...especially with forgiveness. Our faith is not built on feeling but on fact, which is God's word.We are told that salvation is the gift of God. Friend, you dont just get saved! God saves you because Salvation is of the Lord, Jonah 2:9b It is His to give and He gives to whom He pleases. When He gives you salvation, He also gives you life everlasting! This is the record! What a blessing!
How does one go about getting this eternal life?
If you have the Lord Jesus, you have everlasting life; if you do not have the Lord Jesus then you do not have everlasting life! So, the question is, do you have Jesus?
How do you know if you have Him?
Well, how many of you are married? Okay, Now, how do you know you are married? Do you always feel married? You cant go by your feelings, but you know you are married because somewhere there is a document that says you are married. In some dusty volume on a shelf in some courthouse, there is a record that you were married on such and such a day. That is the proof! Not how you feel, but what the record says!
That is how you can know that you have the Son of God and His salvation! Listen, feelings change! But, the death of Jesus, the witness of the Spirit of God within and the written record of the Word of God never change! I cannot trust how I feel, but I trust what this book says! If I have done all this book requires, then I am saved, whether I feel like it or not! All that we know about salvation, we know because of what the Bible, the record, has told us. Thank God, we can trust the record, even when we can trust nothing else. It is settled
We are told that salvation is the gift of God. Friend, you dont just get saved! God saves you because Salvation is of the Lord, Jonah 2:9b It is His to give and He gives to whom He pleases. When He gives you salvation, He also gives you life everlasting! This is the record! What a blessing!
How does one go about getting this eternal life?
If you have the Lord Jesus, you have everlasting life; if you do not have the Lord Jesus then you do not have everlasting life! So, the question is, do you have Jesus?
How do you know if you have Him?
Well, how many of you are married? Okay, Now, how do you know you are married? Do you always feel married? You cant go by your feelings, but you know you are married because somewhere there is a document that says you are married. In some dusty volume on a shelf in some courthouse, there is a record that you were married on such and such a day. That is the proof! Not how you feel, but what the record says!
That is how you can know that you have the Son of God and His salvation! Listen, feelings change! But, the death of Jesus, the witness of the Spirit of God within and the written record of the Word of God never change! I cannot trust how I feel, but I trust what this book says! If I have done all this book requires, then I am saved, whether I feel like it or not! All that we know about salvation, we know because of what the Bible, the record, has told us. Thank God, we can trust the record, even when we can trust nothing else. It is settled