"PSALM 110"

 "So if the priesthood of Levi, which the law was based, could have achieved the perfection God intended, why did God need to establish a different priesthood, with a priest in the order of Melchizedek instead of the order of Levi and Aaron? And if the priesthood is changed, the law must also be changed to permit it. For the priest we are talking about belongs to a different tribe, whose members have never served at the altar as priests. What I mean is, our Lord came from the tribe of Judah, and Moses never mentioned priests coming from that tribe." (Hebrews 7:11-14 NLT)

  "The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head." (PSALM 110 KJV)

 As I was contemplating the passion of Paul's reasoning to count all those things as dung, I couldn't help but think about my life before I met Christ, thinking of the severe contrast between the way I lived and his life. Yes, I was not that great of a citizen, to say the least; but I also don't remember hunting down any Christians; as a matter of fact, I tried hard to avoid them. 

 You must understand something, very important: Before we accepted Christ Jesus into our hearts, we were dead! Yes, dead means that we had no connection with our Heavenly Father, which is what we were, even in the mother's womb. In other words, we were born that way, until that day when God breath life back into us, we were a lost soul, on the way to hell!  

 That said, there is an incredible difference between what were and where we really were, because I truly believe that we who have been saved were always going to be saved, and our Heavenly Father already knew it! That doesn't mean we don't try to share the Good News, as if those who are saved don't need to hear it, because that is what they need to happen in order to be able to come alive...

"For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (Romans 10:12-17 KJV)