Ephesians 2:1-10
Saved by Grace
1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
John 14:6
The Way, the Truth, and the Life
6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
1 John 4:8
God is LOVE
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
John 3:16-17
God LOVES the World
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Many times I have felt the desires of the flesh and the material wants of this earth...But at the same time I want to be a child of God...And I know that God is in kindness, because of His great LOVE...God is LOVE...
Even though we fall short of the glory of God because of our sins, we can live together with Jesus...And by grace we are saved...God has shown us in the past and now with His Son the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus...For it is by God's Grace we are saved through faith...It is not something we have done in our past that gets us to God and heaven...No the Way to God is Jesus, and we get to heaven by His Grace...So we see that we are saved by God's Grace, this Great Gift of LOVE that He gives us...
Author Philip Yancey writes, “Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God LOVE us more...And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God LOVE us less...Grace means that God already LOVES us as much as an infinite God can possibly LOVE.”...