Choose to be One of God's Children

It's 4:00 p.m. and I'm still at my computer getting thoughts down as they stream through my head. This one is so important that I can't wait for tomorrow to post it: CHOICE: The Second Most Basic Christian Principle.

The first, most basic, most important principle of the Bible is that God sent Jesus to die on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins.  The second most basic principle is choice.  We must/get to choose whether we accept this as full payment for our sins and place our trust for salvation here.  If we accept Jesus’ work on the cross as a gift, full payment for our sins, (that means no help from us, He’s fully capable) we become children of God.  (This is the only way, it’s not automatic, everyone is not one of God’s children by default.)  Remember, salvation is so simple and so basic that everyone/anyone, even you, can choose it.

At this point our names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life and we can know that we will spend eternity with God.

[1 John 5:13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.]

Believe from Vines: to believe," also "to be persuaded of," and hence, "to place confidence in, to trust," signifies, in this sense of the word, reliance upon, not mere credence.

Good, and very important, to know.   

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