Heaven-bound with Jesus!
“I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” Phi 3:14 ASVArchive for Confessions
A small IT miracle
I have been troubled by some of the software I have on my laptop. Its nothing technical actually. Its just that I didn’t purchase these: Macromedia, Corel, and some others. I got them from my friends, and some others I downloaded using P2p. The trouble is that I felt I was doing something wrong. As a software developer, if I apply the Golden Rule:
“Do to others as you would have them do to you.” Luke 6:31 BBE
I certainly won’t feel happy if someone else started using software that I meant to sell. So after a long struggle, I uninstalled all of these software. It was hard because I have so many files already created in certain formats, such as CorelDRAW and Macromedia Flash. But with God’s help, I did away with them.
OK, but this isn’t a self-righteous-act post. Here’s the absolutely amazing thing that happened. It started when, after uninstalling CorelDRAW, I decided to look for some free alternative to it and found Inkscape, an open source software. Although I couldn’t open my old files, the software looked pretty good to continue my works. But today, something even better happened… I found another software called Uniconverter, that converts Corel files to the W3C standards-complaiant format SVG… that Inkscape opens!!! Viz, I can now work with all my old files from Corel! Praise God! This taught me an important lesson, that if we trust in God, and just obey Him, everything will fall into place.
Who Am I?
I want to make it clear to anyone reading this blog that I am not a perfect and “righteous” person. This is mainly because I feel whenever a non-Christian listens to a Christian talk about his or her faith, they come under certain incorrect impressions:
- The non-Christian often feels being judged
- The non-Christian thinks the Christian is saying he or she is superior
However, the truth is that “ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”, and when you hear the words of Jesus, they are not being said by someone any different than you. They are not being said to condemn you, or boastfully, but out of love for you. If I or any other person talks to you about Jesus, they are trying to put across to you that you need to be saved from your sins and the coming destruction of the universe. Don’t you think that if someone loves you, they’d want you safe from destruction?
“The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.” [Galatians 5:19-21 NIV]
I confess that I have done all of these things. Do you know what the Bible says will happen to me?…
“I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.” [Galatians 5:21 NIV]
So why do I keep this blog, and how am I “heaven-bound”? Because “it is by grace [I] have been saved”. It is through Jesus that my sins are washed clean, blotted out, and I am a sinner no longer because I have been forgiven. I am heaven-bound because I am redeemed by Jesus.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” [John 3:16 NIV]
That is all there is to forgiveness from your wrongs, from the wrongs others did to you; it is to believe in Jesus. And to believe in Him, you have to believe His story, all in the Bible. You have to believe His promise, He shall come back, and raise all to life and a new creation.
Don’t you believe in gravity? Its the thing that pulls you down when you jump. Believe in Jesus to the same extent; he can pull you back from the gates of hell. Don’t you believe in Einstein? He was a scientist who was born at the end of the 1800s, and died around the 1950s. Believe in Jesus to that extent; he lived on the earth some 2000 years ago, died, arose from the dead, and is alive today! And most importantly, know this that He died for your sins, so that you will never have to take punishment for your sins if you just believe in Him.
