Steps to Receive Spiritual
Life
1. Understand that God's
Desire for you is Life, that is Abundant &
Eternal!
The Bible declares: "I am come that they
might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John
10:10).
Giving you abundant life required the supreme sacrifice: "For God so
loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John
3:16).
God desires fellowship and companionship with you. What a wonderful gift
the Father has given, yet if God gave His own Son to provide an abundant
and everlasting life, why don’t more people have what He has designed
for us to receive? It is a question answered by this sobering
realization.
2. Realize That You Are
Separated From God!
There is a gap between God and mankind. He
has provided a way for us to receive an abundant and eternal life, but
people throughout the ages have made selfish choices to disobey God
Almighty. These choices continue to cause separation from the Father.
God’s Word shows us that the result of sin is death. He says in His
Word: "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end
thereof are the ways of death" (Proverbs 14:12).
And God also said, "But your iniquities have separated between you and
your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not
hear" ( Isaiah 59:2). Paul the apostle states in Romans 3:23, "For all
have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." And in Romans 6:23 we
read: "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Every human was created with the
ability and need to know God and fellowship with Him. Augustine, a
minister who lived during the fourth and fifth centuries, called this
longing in each of us "that God-shaped vacuum."
Every day we hear of people who are rich, famous, achievers, star
athletes—people who seem to have the best life can offer—yet they try to
fill that empty void in their lives with "things." They even try good
works, morality, and religion. Yet they remain empty, for only God,
through His Son, can fill that emptiness.
3. Accept The Fact That
God Has Provided Only One Solution To Sin &
Separation From Himself!
Jesus
Christ, His Son, is the only way to God. Only He can reconcile us to God
the Father. Mankind may seek other solutions and worship other gods, but
Jesus Christ, alone, died on the Cross for our sins and rose in triumph
over the grave and eternal death. He paid the penalty for our sin and
bridged the gap between God and mankind. The Bible explains: "But God
commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). We are also told, "For Christ also
hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might
bring us to God" (1 Peter 3:18).
There is only one way provided: "For there is one God, and one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" ( 1 Timothy 2:5). For in John
14:6 we read, "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the
life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." God Almighty has
provided the only way. Jesus Christ paid the penalty for our sin and
rebellion against God by dying on the cross, shedding His blood, and
rising from the dead to justify and reconcile you back to God the
Father.
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