Do you know how to receive Jesus in your heart? (archived edition pt. II )

Today's reading: "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," Romans 3:23 NKJV

Without Jesus in our heart, we fall short because of sin. God is holy, and His requirement for us is to be holy also. The only way that this can be achieved is by recognizing you have a sinful nature, ( you can read more about this in Genesis accounting for Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden).  We were created to have fellowship with God, but our fellowship with God was broken when Adam chose to sin way back in the garden. God saw Adam's choice as rebelliousness, and without Jesus in our hearts, changing our lives, we are heirs to that rebelliousness. Sin can be characterized as missing God's righteous expectation of living obediently in Him, and going against that obedience out of  rebelliousness. Because of sin, it separates us from God, spiritually.

The Bible explains in Romans 6:23 "The wages of sin is death". When you try to reach God by your own efforts that is considered being 'religious', and this always falls short in God's eyes. But, when you receive Jesus, He is our mediator with God. He is the reconciling factor and relationship builder.

Jesus is the one who restores our fellowship with God.  Are you with me? There is nothing you can do on your own that will ever bring you close to God, unless you have Jesus.  In John 14:6, "Jesus said to him,'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me." 

Jesus- my prayer today is simply that people who do not yet know You or have yet to receive You, that they would consider the truth. We are sinful to You. We are not holy. We can only be made holy through the work of Jesus in our lives, by receiving You as our Lord and Savior, and to have an eternal relationship with You. The ones who do not believe, the ones who scoff, they do not get it. I pray that You would begin to make sense to them, and begin changing their hearts. In Your name. Amen.