Tuesday January 8, 2013

For a new start, ask God for a new heart.

 

 

Read Acts 3:13-21

 

In 2010, auto manufacturers recalled a staggering 20 million cars in US for various defects.  The thought of such a large number of defective cars on the road is startling enough.  But what is more disturbing is the apathy of some owners.  In one instance, the executive director of the Centre for Auto Safety warned owners, “It’s a free repair.  Get it done.  It may save your life.”  Yet, despite the risk to their own lives, 30 percent never responded.

 

Likewise, many ignore God’s “recall notice” to the entire human race.  Unlike a defect found in automobiles, the moral defect of the human race is not the Maker’s fault.  He made everything “very good” (Genesis 1:31), but people’s sin ruined it.  God’s offer to us is “repent … that your sins may be blotted out” (v 19).

 

God offers not just a free repair of the human heart but a replacement of it (Ezekiel 36:26; 2 Corinthians 5:17).  Though the offer costs us nothing (Ephesians 2:8-9), it cost God the life of His only Son Jesus Christ.  “[Jesus] bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness - by whose stripes you were healed” (1Peter 2:24).

 

Don’t ignore the Lord’s call.  The free and permanent remedy offered by God for your spiritual defect will save your life!

 

Prayer:

¥ Pray for that our teens would model godliness and Christ-likeness in an attractive way that draws others to Christ for salvation.

¥ Pray for the children in our Kings Kids ministry. Ask God to fill these children with the love of Christ, with obedience to parents and to have within them a deep desire to minister, serve and reach out to others. Pray that our teachers and parents would be filled with love and wisdom as they parent and teach these precious little ones.