living a lie

So I'm here sitting in my room having just had an after midnight walk to the 24hr combini.
I start to think about how life is summed up by people in their sub-conscious and conscious mind.
I think that in reality when you are missing one piece of information that has to do with life itself, in actuality you don't actually have a true understanding or view on life.

As such living would be a lie.
If you have all truth but one lie, that lie makes the whole thing...you, and your understanding, and even how you are actually living out your life, a lie...or at the very least...unstable.

As humans we somehow (generally speaking here) think that we are really quite smart.
But in reality, when you compare what we as both individuals and as a whole actually know with the reality of how life is life...ie understanding how life runs in EVERY angle...you know what?
We just don't even come close to having it covered...no, not even close.

Why do I say this?
Well for one thing, when you look at how we cannot even overcome death itself...that says ALOT.

Not one person in human history has overcome death as part of a will-ful act...

Well, there is one.

It's no accident that time itself is based upon someone who overcame death.

The very life...the birth of Jesus is what our time, or calendar is based upon.

But the very fact that Jesus died and rose again to life isn't necessarily the whole picture in regards to the BIG miracle...as BIG as it is...

The truth is this...the BIG miracle is the very person of God who is OUTSIDE time, putting the very nature of himself through the birth of his son into this world.

The story of the love of God, the miracle of God, is revealed in many ways but is displayed through something all of us have had happen to us...

being born.

If there is one who has no lie, and lives completely in truth, it would be God himself, through His son Jesus.

Jesus referred to himself as the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

In Jesus there is no other spirit
In Jesus there is no lie
In Jesus there is no death

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.

So what I am saying is this:

If we are living our lives outside of Jesus...our life is a lie...it's not based on truth.

Jesus welcomes you and I into himself...into the Way, the Truth, and the LIFE.

Obedience

Obedience is not following Jesus for what you will get in return.
Obedience is following Jesus for what he will get in return...you.
You need to give your life over to Jesus period.
"If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it." -Jesus
Don't be fooled into a marketable Jesus that presents a Jesus as trying to buy you, or win you over. Jesus paid the price for you, you are bought...you either believe this and receive this or you don't.
Preaching the gospel isn't preaching a sales pitch of how Jesus is really good for you. My friends Jesus is good...period.
You either turn from sin, and turn to him...or you don't. No sales pitch necessary...just the truth, Jesus.
It's the Holy Spirit's role to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and the coming judgement. Not ours. We just present the truth in love, and leave the rest up to the work of the Holy Spirit in you and your response to Jesus.
The gospel is the power to save for those who will believe, for those who don't, you already stand condemned.
Because the gospel is the power to save, we don't have to try and come up with fancy ways of presenting the gospel. It's the gospel that IS the power to save and the Holy Spirit IS the one who convicts people of their need to repent and put their faith and trust in Jesus.
If we rely more on our own wonderful ways of describing the gospel and less on the work of the Holy Spirit to convict people of sin and their need to repent and receive Jesus, we are not trusting in the power of the gospel to save.
Forgive me Father in heaven for trying to sell my friends Jesus your son, when you already gave him up for us, paying the full price for our sins on the cross. Jesus isn't for sale, and never was. Jesus was and is your Son, and you chose to give him up "freely" for me. Thank you Father for giving up your Son to take on my sin and shame, and for making me your son in Jesus name. Thank you that I am completely forgiven and cleansed of all my sin, and that you fill me with your Holy Spirit to live for you and tell others about you.

You the reader now have a choice to make, how will you respond to Jesus? The call is simple:

"Repent from your sin, and receive Jesus as your Lord and Saviour today".