Games People Play

Playing games with someone in a life or death situation is not a good thing.  I think most people would agree with that.  Telling people half-truths is like throwing them a rope that isn’t tied to anything, while they are falling off a high cliff.  Telling people half-truths is like telling people lies.  How will anyone know they need to be lifted out of the muck and mire if they don’t know they are sinking?  Think of this, everyone is in a life and death situation, because everyone that lives will pass on someday, but after that the white throne Judgement will take place according to God’s word.

Someday Jesus will return, and every eye will see Him, and every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.  This is not a time to play games, but it is a time to get downright serious about where you are going to spend eternity.  I want to tell you that God loves you and He is not willing that any be lost but that all will come to repentance.  As long as you are still living, you have a choice to make, you can repent and turn from your sins and turn to God and find forgiveness or you can keep rebelling against the Lord and go your own way and end up separated from the Lord forever in a place where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  

We cannot possibly know how much God loves us, but we can read about it in John 3:16 and many other places in the word of God.  God loved us enough to send his son, Jesus, into the world to be our sacrificial lamb, to give His life a ransom for all who will receive him.  This is what the word of God says about him in John 3:17-20, “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.”

Now please read John 3:34-36, “For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure. The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand. He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

If anyone expects to go to heaven or have eternal life, they must be born again, or born from above, there is no getting around that fact.  Now please read John 3:1-8, “There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, ‘Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.’ Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ Nicodemus said to Him, ‘How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?’ Jesus answered, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Now read 2 Corinthians 7:10, “For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.”

The choice is yours, I prayed that you would make the right one.  May you and yours have a blessed day, I hope this has been an encouragement and help and blessing to all who read it!!  Don’t forget to thank and praise the Lord, for He is so worthy.