Jesus Washed Away My Sins 8-7-24
All of my sins; past, present, and future were taken care of when Jesus Christ hung on the cross, suffered, died, and rose from the dead.
Therefore, I don’t go to heaven because of what I do or don’t do as a child of God, I go to heaven because God called me to be His before the foundation of the world. Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations (Jeremiah 1:5).
For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified (Romans 8:29-30).
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved (Ephesians 1:3-6).
Jesus Christ was the Lamb But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you (1 Peter 1:19-20). And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8).
Beloved, I thank the Lord for how He knew me and ordained my ministry (calling) to serve before the foundation of the world. This is difficult to understand when we look at spiritual things from our perspective (view), that’s why it is necessary for us to trust God and not lean to our understanding (Proverbs 3:5-6). Our view is not clear; it is cloudy. However, God's view (perspective) is always clear because He is Perfect.
For My thoughts are not your thoughts, for are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:8-9).
Bottom line is, the more I study God’s Word, the more my spiritual eyes are enlightened, and I am forever grateful that I have eternal life, regardless if everything is not clear to me.
Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org
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