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Life is a veritable struggle,1 is it not? Time is relentless. It marches on.
The seconds click click click so fast.Today flips into tomorrow.One thing after the other.I’m not in control.It’s a fight to keep up.Yikes!
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How you live your life is your choice. But, Jesus rewards the good one.
Note: Sinners are not saved by living right. We are saved by His sheer mercy, by His grace through faith. See: Why on earth will God accept you, a sinner?
It’s a fight – to live right. But the reward is eternally worth it. See: Luke 18:28-30; John 3:16; John 5:24; John 6:40
Follow Jesus
Following Jesus is the only good life. Following Jesus is a fight that rewards winners (1 Thessalonians 1:10). And “winners” are those who endure to the end. You enduring? Be a winner.
See: | Run with endurance |
| Be the one who endures and overcomes |
| The spirits of the righteous made perfect |
| I am almost perfect (Yippee!) |
I fight to win it. It’s a good fight. 2
“…fight the good fight, 19 keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to [b the]their faith. – 1 Timothy 1:18-19
*Rewards from God: search of BibleGateway
Losers are those who keep their life, those who reject the new life God desires us all to have. Lose your life to Jesus. Give it up. His Way is better, and His reward is sonship forever in His forever Kingdom, Heaven.
It’s worth it — keeping a good conscience. It’s a struggle that we can do alone, or, with Jesus. Jesus works with us sinners. You working with Him?
See: | God takes care of sinners |
| The non-stop work of God inside you and me |
| The reality of incompleteness on earth |
| Un-becoming |
Keep the faith
If I don’t fight the fight, I won’t keep the faith. I’ll lose my confidence. I’ll lose my good conscience. Like a ship on a journey I’m more open, then, to running aground, pounded in the waves. Destroyed.
Giving up – I’m a shipwreck going somewhere to happen.
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. – Jude 1:21
Be like Jesus
Accepting Jesus as your Savior – will make you a winner. Jesus and His followers win in the end.
See: | This is salvation in Christ |
| Sin is not the issue in Salvation |
| Through grace and sheer mercy |
Keep on keepin’ on. Never give up. Never deny Jesus. Keep the faith.
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful and trustworthy over a little, I will put you in charge of many things; share in the joy of your master.’ – Matthew 25:21
FOR MORE:
How you live your life is your choice. But, Jesus rewards the good one. It’s a fight – to live right. But the reward is eternally worth it.
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Run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us
Growing into our natural new life in Christ
Practicing Sin – Not Following Christ
The Great Water Down of Jesus’ Message to us all
Accepting Jesus – Plus Some Other
Claiming a sin as God’s will for you
As if your mindset is protected by God
Why on earth will God accept you, a sinner?
Sin is not the issue in Salvation
Footnotes
- Thesaurus. “veritable”: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/veritable.
- Am I truly a follower? …of God? Or am I merely a “do whatever I want” type of fake follower? You trying to serve two masters – Jesus and some other? Source: Being like Jesus
21 The person who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him [I will make Myself real to him].” – John 14:21.
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