Life As We Know It

The message that we preached came from Him (God), and it isn't something made up by humans. You accepted it as God's message, and now He is working in you.

 --- The Bible

When we hear the word of God preached for the first time, our souls tingle and our minds wonder - could this really be what it seems like? And then we decide to take the plunge and dive in - becoming believers... Some, for a time. Some, for a lifetime. Some, for eternity.

The Gospel, is not something made up by humans. Paul is very clear about this in the 2nd chapter of Thessalonians. The message of the Bible/Gospel comes directly from God. Only when we truly realise that this message is from God, would we be able to understand and accept this as our life's faith. Once we accept it, He begins working within us, to help the world around us. He does not sit outside us and try to crush and pressure us to conform to a certain mould that He's got in mind; rather, He lovingly enters us and works on us, inside us. Changing us for the better.

As someone once put it, life with Jesus is not highly different from the life we had before. It is the same life - but with a difference... That God is working within us. How awesome is that thought! Simply astounding. And this is life as we know it... as believers, as Christians, as followers and disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is what it's all about - accepting the message of the Bible and thereby, giving God the chance to work in us.

Amen, people. God bless the ones with faith enough to believe.