Being Saved and Calling Upon God

Being saved has many meanings for so many people. There are those that think all they have to do is call upon God and he will automatically change their life and they lay lazily  waiting on that to take place. They wonder why he doesn't grant their every wish. Kind of like he is the magic genie in the bottle for them to command.

Well he does change your way of thinking but you have to do the work. He manipulates your future small amounts at a time and tests you often.  Sometimes it takes faith just to see the changes in your life but one day you look back and say wow he did it. I was so blind to his ways that it passed me by like a wind on my face.

The Lord will guide you always;
He will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.

Isaiah 58:11 NIV

Forgiveness

For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:13-14

The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.

Daniel 9:9

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.

Romans 8:28 (NIV)


Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5:1-2 (NIV)

I was thinking about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. How Eve was tricked into eating the fruit from the forbidden tree. Through the craftiness of a serpent she was led to believe that is was for her own good. She let desire for the world interfere with her decision to obey God.

When you think about Adam he was probably knew  God would exile Eve from The Garden Of Eden. His memories of the loneliness before she came,and his love for her, thoughts of all they had shared in each others life, made him sure that eating the fruit would be his only hope to hang on to Eve. The first sin may have well been for love on Adams part.

Children of God

To all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God- children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
John 1:12-13

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
1 John 3:1

Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.
Philippians 2:14-15

Jesus said it's impossible to enter the Kingdom unless we become as little children.
Mark 10:15

God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8

Joyful Outlook In Life

The one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 4:4

Everyone born of God overcomes the world.
1 John 5:4

Whoever touches you touches the apple of (God's) eye.
Zechariah 2:8

In all their distress he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them.  In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
Isaiah 63:9

Man's Condition

What is man's condition?

1.  His understanding is darkened. 

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Ephesians 4:18

2. He is born into sin.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
 Psalm 51:5

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
    Psalm 58:3 

Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not, yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherouslt, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
 Isaiah 48:8

3.  His heart is full of evil.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperate wicked: who can know it?
  Jeremiah 17:9

4.  He is spiritually dead.

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sin;
 Ephesians 2:1

Can man change his condition?

1.  Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spot? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Jeremiah 13:23

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
 Romans 6:23

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall be no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is knowledge of sin.
Romans 3:19-20