Check It Out

A recent trip to the Emergency Room gave me serious time to think. After checking my head wound and seeing to the cut above my eye, the Doctor made the decision to admit me to the hospital for observation. My dissent brought this profound statement. “Only a fool would not take the time to find the REASON for your fall, we need to get to the root of the problem and check you out.”

On a spiritual level this statement makes even more sense to me.
What is the real reason for all the problems in this life?
Why am I so depressed? So unhappy? So addicted to the things that only bring me more grief and despair?
Have you ‘checked out’ your relationship with your Creator?
Mankind was created for fellowship with God .Genesis 1: 26-28. When sin came into the picture, that sweet fellowship was lost. Genesis 3. Christ came into the world to redeem us from that ‘lost’ position and restore each of us to fellowship when we are ‘born again’ by the Spirit through faith. Romans 10:9, 10, 13. John 3:16.
John 3:3, 5 tells us we must be ‘born again’ of the Spirit of God. So you see our relationship with God MUST be restored before we can find true peace, true joy, and true happiness, true redemption from sin’s bondage.
Maybe you say, “But I do not believe the Bible nor do I believe in a creator God”. Well there again is a great reason for ‘checking’ things out. Scripture holds many references to those who do not believe. God calls them ‘fools, which means a ‘simpleton’ or a silly, unwise one.’
Psalms 14:1; the fool has said in his heart, there is no God.
Proverbs 1:7 the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
CHECK OUT Matthew 23:17; Luke 24; 25; Romans 1:22; Ephesians 5:14-21.
In John 1:12 and 13 we learn that as many as receive him, to them he gives power to become the sons of God, to those who believe on His name. We are born not of the flesh, but of the will of God.
Don’t you think something as important as eternal life is worth your time to open your heart and
CHECK IT OUT!


August 11, 2009