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The Bridge to Life
One of the oldest questions humankind has been asking is, “How can I know God?” The question is a valid one. What is He like? What can we do to please Him? How can we get to Heaven? If we work hard enough to be a good enough person will He accept us then? If we do enough religious activities to get His attention, will that do it?
Fortunately for us, the answer is surprisingly simple. The “Gospel” that the Bible talks about literally means, “the Good News,” and the news is good indeed!
First, we have to start at the beginning. In Genesis 1:26, when God created the first humans, He said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness”, then God blessed them and spent the days walking and talking with the people He had created. In short, life was good.
But why isn’t life like that anymore? What happened to mess everything up? This brings us to the second point: when we (humankind) chose to do the opposite of what God told us, sin poisoned the world. Sin separated us from God, and everything changed. Romans 3:23 says, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” and in Isaiah 59:2 we’re told, “your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you so that he will not hear.”This is especially bad news because there is no way for us to get across that gap on our own. We (humankind) have tried to find our way back to God and a perfect world on our own ever since then, and without any luck. We try to get there by being good people, or through religion, money, morality, philosophy, education, or any number of other ways, but eventually we find out that none of it works. “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death” (Proverbs 14:12).
There is only one way to find peace with God, and the Bible says it is through Jesus Christ. We were stranded without any way of getting back to our Creator, and we needed a way to pay for our sins and be clean again so that we could be welcomed back to be with Him. Romans 5:8 says, “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” So this is the Good News—that even though we were still enemies of God (as one translation says), Jesus came to die on the cross and pay the price for our sins so that we could have a relationship with Him again. John 3:16 says, “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.”
What then should be our reaction to this awesome news? This brings us to the last and most important part. John 5:24 says, “I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.” Jesus Christ himself even says, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10), and Romans 5:1 says, “we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”So how can I have peace with God, life to the full, and be confident of eternal life like these verses say? First, through an honest prayer to God, I have to admit that I’m not perfect—that I can’t escape my sins, and I can’t save myself. I follow this admission by believing that Jesus Christ died for me on the cross and rose from the grave, conquering death and sin. Then I invite Jesus Christ to live in me and be the Lord of my life, accepting His free gift of eternal life with Him.The prayer can go something like this:“Dear Jesus, I know that I am a sinner and that I need You to forgive me. I know that You died a painful death so that my sins could be washed clean. Thank you. I want to make You the Lord of my life, and I will trust and follow You. Everything I have is Yours now. In Your name, Lord. Amen.”
There is nothing magical about these words. It’s not the words themselves that make things right between you and God—it’s whether or not your heart really means it. We know this because in 1 Samuel 16:7, the Bible says, “The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
The best part of this whole process is that it doesn’t matter how badly we’ve messed up, Jesus is powerful enough to save anyone from their sins—even the worst of us. Romans 10:13 says, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” That’s fantastic news—no matter how badly we’ve messed up, we can place our complete trust in Jesus, and He will wipe all of our sins off the face of the earth. Jesus is the bridge to life.
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My Story
As a young teenager I was like most people who have a very negative view of Christians and Christianity in general. I had been brought up going to church but most of the people I knew who attended were the kind of Christians who were “Sunday morning only” types. Once they left the building at noon on Sunday you would have thought they had never been there at all. I’d also become fed up with the way some preachers seemed so ready to manipulate people. Sincere Christians to me seemed to be mostly naïve people whose thoughts were easily redirected, but most of the people I knew were not even sincere about it.
Once I reached the age where I was able to make my own decisions on things, I chose to reject Christ and the church and anything to do with religion. I wanted no part of it. I especially didn’t want to be hypocritical and I knew that I couldn’t live a good Christian life so I decided to chuck the whole thing.
It was during my senior year of high school that I met some Christians who were really different from the ones I grew up with. There was just something very attractive about them. They really cared about others and accepted me without any of the strings that I found usually attached to that. And they were more than “Sunday morning only” types. They really did believe in Christ and it made a difference in their daily lives.
I remember one of them sharing with me that the really important thing was to believe in and receive Jesus Christ as Savior. This meant that I had to willingly turn my life over to Him. I remember a verse from the Bible that was shared with me-“But to all who received Him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God”. This made real sense to me but I still had hesitation about the whole thing. But I had no sense of meaning or purpose in life. I wondered about death and what would happen to me when I died. I was really looking for something worth living for and when I finally reached the end of my rope; I decided to give it a try. I remember praying something like, “If you are there, I want you in my life.”
I wasn’t even sure when I prayed this prayer that God was there or that anything would happen, but it was dramatic what changed right away. All of a sudden I had a brand new interest in knowing about God and following Him, and this was a 180-degree turn around for me. It seemed like my eyes were opened and I had a whole new outlook on everything. All my problems weren’t solved right away, but for the first time in my life I had a real sense of meaning and purpose to my life- to know God and help others to know Him too. I found out that even though there are plenty of hypocrites out there, there are also many people who are sincere about following Christ. They measure their Christian lives not by how many church services they attend but by how much their faith affects their daily living.
But probably the most important thing that has changed for me is that I no longer worry about what will happen to me when I die. The Bible says, “This is the testimony, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.” I know I have eternal life because I have Christ in my life.
Once I reached the age where I was able to make my own decisions on things, I chose to reject Christ and the church and anything to do with religion. I wanted no part of it. I especially didn’t want to be hypocritical and I knew that I couldn’t live a good Christian life so I decided to chuck the whole thing.
It was during my senior year of high school that I met some Christians who were really different from the ones I grew up with. There was just something very attractive about them. They really cared about others and accepted me without any of the strings that I found usually attached to that. And they were more than “Sunday morning only” types. They really did believe in Christ and it made a difference in their daily lives.
I remember one of them sharing with me that the really important thing was to believe in and receive Jesus Christ as Savior. This meant that I had to willingly turn my life over to Him. I remember a verse from the Bible that was shared with me-“But to all who received Him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God”. This made real sense to me but I still had hesitation about the whole thing. But I had no sense of meaning or purpose in life. I wondered about death and what would happen to me when I died. I was really looking for something worth living for and when I finally reached the end of my rope; I decided to give it a try. I remember praying something like, “If you are there, I want you in my life.”
I wasn’t even sure when I prayed this prayer that God was there or that anything would happen, but it was dramatic what changed right away. All of a sudden I had a brand new interest in knowing about God and following Him, and this was a 180-degree turn around for me. It seemed like my eyes were opened and I had a whole new outlook on everything. All my problems weren’t solved right away, but for the first time in my life I had a real sense of meaning and purpose to my life- to know God and help others to know Him too. I found out that even though there are plenty of hypocrites out there, there are also many people who are sincere about following Christ. They measure their Christian lives not by how many church services they attend but by how much their faith affects their daily living.
But probably the most important thing that has changed for me is that I no longer worry about what will happen to me when I die. The Bible says, “This is the testimony, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.” I know I have eternal life because I have Christ in my life.