Salvation and eternal life

Been thinking about my faith whats it all about, what does it really mean to me. Sometimes in life we take things for granted, I know Im saved and can be lazy, (well I am). No need to pray too much, no need to read my bible, know enough about it, Im ok kind of attitude. Well thats me sometimes, and then I started to think, through writing my testimony and reading Gods word, WOW I have salvation and eternal life!!!!

I read Romans chapter 6, as I've said earlier I aint no preacher cant write no sermons, my understanding of God's word is simple. Basically it says that we are dead to sin, because Jesus died we have new life in him, no longer slaves to sin. We have been set FREE!! Death no longer has control over us, we must refrain from sin and offer ourselves to God. As he is the boss man!! We are now slaves to righteousness, we have the benefits of holiness and eternal life. WOOP WOOP! The wages of sin is death, the gift of God our heavenly father is eternal life.

God wants us to have eternal life, it is a gift offered freely to us, if only we decide to take it. A song we sing in church, he came from heaven to earth to show the way, from the earth to the cross my debt to pay, from the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky. amen.

We KNOW we have eternal life, when we accept Jesus into our hearts, as our Lord and saviour. In 1 john chapter 5, its amazing reading, says if we believe, we are born of God, we are in his family and are joint heirs with Christ. We are to love and obey God, and through our faith have victory over our circumstances and the world around us. We have a testimony in our hearts from God, because of his salvation to us and his gift of eternal life. We have LIFE through his son and in his son. V 13 says I write these things to you who believe in the name of the son of God, so that you may KNOW that you have eternal life.

God is just so amazing and how dare I take for granted what he has done for me, I want to draw near to him, to pray more, to read his word more, to tell others about him more, to give him all the glory with my life. When we look at what we believe and why it's like HELLO, and WOW, what we have is a real gift and a privelige. Im so glad I am his and he is mine and want to spend eternity with him!!