"Won and Done" - Too

 "Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood for others;" (Hebrews 9:25 KJV)

  "My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins - and not only our sins but the sins of all the world." (1 John 2:1-2 NLT)

 Basically, it all comes down to our willingness to believe that Jesus' blood, shed on that cross, was all it took to cleanse us from our sins! Sad is it might be, but there are so many people that just can't come to grip the death of one man on a cross was all it took to cleanse us from our sins. Well, that might be easy to question the result, if you are believing that Jesus was just a man; but believing that He is God, that shines a whole new light on the power of the cross! 

 To be very honest about my understanding of who Jesus really was, the first few years of salvation, there were times when I doubted that He really was God. That was mostly because of the religion I grew up in, as they make every effort to believe that Jesus is not God; but if He was, the title would be a little god, much in the line of an angel; or even of Satan. 

 Not that it made me change my mind, because whenever I doubted who Jesus was, I would read those Scriptures that specifically say that He was indeed God, the True and Living God! Once we make that the Truth in our hearts, even when our mind may start to think differently, our heart will speak His love and sacrifice, which will trump every doubt, again and again.  

 As I have said before, and I will say it again: When I received Christ into my heart, I was totally undone; without even thinking twice, I was overwhelmed by the fact that the Creator, my Creator, was willingly crucified on a cross to save me from my sins! The image I saw of Jesus in my mind, was like a punch to my heart; it was so vivid, yet it just flashed into my mind. I knew right there and then that it really was the truth. 

 There is really nothing that can I think of that can stop me from believing that He saved me, and that He will get me to the other side! I don't believe that, even if I fall, my salvation will be lost, because He will not let me go! Not that there haven't been times when I felt as though I messed up, so badly, that He was not going to forgive me, because there were; but He always makes a way for us to stand back up again, and again!  

 Seriously, I picture it as if we are "Weebles," as it goes: "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down"...

"For God, who said, "Let there be light in the darkness," has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ. We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves. We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies." (2 Corinthians 4:6-10 NLT)