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When I lived in complete sin I took no positive notice of religion. I had heard others talk about their experiences and likes/dislikes of religion. I didn't take much of my brain to tell me these people were living a lie. To them Religion might have been important, but there was nothing in what they said to make me desire to get involved with their religious endevors.
Then I met Jesus and fell head over heals into a life of faith. I'm not a good man. I'm not even a fair to middlin Christian. But the Lord I serve is, not only alive, but is capable of helping draw me into eternally good things. I'm not a religious person. I'm a child of God in Christ Jesus through the faith God grants me.
Think of your "religion". Is it a series of do's and don't's? Is there an active God in your world? When you have a problem face you do you litterally have a conversation with the Lord? Or when times come when you think you need God's help, take a hand full of words and throw them at the sky?
I know Jesus! I know who He is. And more importantly, He knows who I am and who you are. We do not save ourselves. If you come at salvation and God through your own good things, you will never reach Him. Only in a realization of our own miserable failure do we find the humility sufficient to gain His favor. The pride of man will be crushed.
I hope this post has helped someone to think through their bag of lies and find that single truth the Lord Himself put there: JESUS.
By His Grace.
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