To be honest

This needs to be off my chest.
If you're reading this, then God wants to speak to you. This is the Gospel (at least part of it) if you haven't heard it before.

He stands at the door and knocks, if you open it, He will come in and dine with you.

God created this world. He shaped it. This world was and is for Him.

And mankind rebelled and we still do. We turn our backs on our Creator and do horrible things, we destroy ourselves, each other and this world we live in.

And for these bad things we do, we deserve to be punished severely.

God is completely good and just. This means he cannot be unjust, even if He loves us so much. So He has to punish us for all our wrong actions.

So, He sent His Son to earth.
Jesus ( His Son) came to set an example for us and to save us from our destruction.

He bore the punishment that we deserved.
The punishment we deserved for turning away from God and doing wrong things.
Jesus was crucified( a horrible way of killing someone ). And when He died He took upon Himself all our wrongdoing and everything evil and bad about us.

Jesus rose again after three days( meaning He came back from the dead).

He overcame death and evil.

We all deserve hell.
You, me and every human that has ever walked this planet except God's Son.
That's why God provided a way for us to escape our rightful punishment by punishing His Son instead. And by His Son, He technically means Himself because He and His Son are one.
God punished Himself for all our sins.

But God wants us to be with him.
To go to hell means to be separated from God for all eternity.

I hate the idea of hell.
I hate that it is permanent.
But it is.


God loves us and wants us with Him.
All we need to do is trust that Jesus has been punished for our sins and give ourselves back to God. We need to turn away from sin (and He gives us strength to do it).


Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.
Ephesians 2:7-10 MSG
http://bible.com/97/eph.2.7-10.MSG


If you read this, I pray with all my heart that you believe it.

I will be writing more soon.

And if you're confused, then just ask God to reveal Himself to you.

And if you have any questions or you just want to talk to somebody, feel free to send me a message on facebook.