Why The "Panicking Christian"?

Like most Christians, I occasionally find myself in a borderline, all out panic about something which I already knew, but seem to have forgotten or that I only knew in my head, as opposed to my heart. And mercifully, God decides to show me what is really going on or what it is that I needed to know, before I completely lose my mind.

So the writing within is just that. It is that which God has shown and taught me while I was typically in one of those times in my life. Since the way in which He has chosen to reveal things to me tend to be fairly easy to follow and understand, I am sharing them via this format. That said, I take no glory for any of this. It is God whom has given me the ability to write, and it is He who has given me the content to write as well and He who saved me by His glorious grace in the first place.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Easter 2014

FaceBook (social media) updates from the Easter 2014 weekend.
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Tomorrow is Good Friday. For you, it may merely be an extra day off work or school, or perhaps just another day. However, for those within the Christian Church, it is (or should be) far more. For us, it is a day we celebrate even though many would wonder why one would celebrate. It is the day in which - historically speaking - that Jesus was crucified - executed for crimes He did not commit. So why celebrate something like that? Simple: He did not have not too give His life, He choose to give it. And in doing so, He paid a debt that no mortal man ever could have hoped to pay - a debt that belonged to humanity in the first place.

So, if you are saved and heading out to a church service for Good Friday tomorrow, remember why you are there - what it cost to allow you to be there in the first place and what it is you truly have because of it. If you are heading out and are not saved, perhaps take moment to really ponder what was done for you - yes, you - and what is available to you because of it.
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This past weekend, many of us celebrated the Easter season and many of us celebrated it with the  knowledge that the events that took place in years gone by allowed us to have eternal life. But what is eternal life? Is it 'merely' that we live forever - living a life even after our physical bodies have gone back to the dust?

For those that believe - those who call themselves Christian - we know that there is more to life than just what we see here and now. There shall come a day in which all people shall stand before the Lord, regardless of whether they followed Jesus or not and give an account of their lives on earth. For the believer, while this time may be a bit unnerving (putting it mildly) it is not a time of fear for the penalty for what we have done is waived. Not so for those who spent their lives in rebellion against God. Those people will have no defense and will face the full penalty for their actions. Since both are present, eternal life cannot be that we live after death for all who are created shall continue to live a life after after this portion is done. The "where" and quality of that life on the other hand is a different story.

Jesus actually told us what eternal life is in John 17:3: "Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God..". We are all born into this world missing a piece for we are born "spiritually dead" and separated from God right from the get go. But after we are "born again" - born of Spirit - that missing is piece is added and we are re-united with One who created us in the first place. You see, there is far more to "eternal life" than merely "life after death" and it is not something we have to wait until we are dead to receive.
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