09-09-09

Today is 09/09/09. It only comes around once a century. It is a special day. Do you have any special days in your memory banks? Maybe your birthday? Maybe your anniversary? I remember a couple at my last church that wanted to be married on 07/07/07. Dates like that are unique and make it hard to forget an anniversary – lol. Can you remember the day you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? It is THE most important day in your life. You were born of the issue of your mother’s womb, and that was a physical birth, but it will be followed by a physical death. Your salvation moment, being born of the Spirit, is a birth that leads unto everlasting life.

John 3:1-6 – 1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him." 3 In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." 4 "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" 5 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.

When were you born again? I know some believe you are saved through baptism. I don’t. I know some believe you can grow into salvation. I don’t. You may grow into your relationship with Christ, but at some point in time, you MUST make the decision to yield your life’s lordship to Christ. Do you know when that happened for you? Or have you sort of thought you grew up Christian and that you always were a Christian?

Romans 10:13 – for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

What does it mean to call on the Lord? Is Jesus the Lord of your life? Have you accepted His Lordship? Have you yielded your life to Him? The believer’s prayer goes something like this – variations are many – Lord, I need You. I confess that I am a sinner, lost on my own, in need of Your forgiveness. Forgive me and come into my heart and sit on the throne of my life, be my Lord and Savior. If you have never come to that place, to a prayer similar to this one, you may be fooling yourself, thinking you are saved. We must humble ourselves before Jesus and allow Him Lordship in our lives. Perfection will not immediately follow in the physical world, but in the Spiritual, we are justified, made just as if we hadn’t sinned, perfection in God’s eyes!

Just something to think about today as you go on your way.