It Ain’t Easy
We may have been misled. Most of us were told that we just needed to repeat the sinner’s prayer. We would then be saved. After saying the sinner’s prayer, most of us believed that living for Jesus would be easy. But it ain’t.
As a nine-year-old boy, I repeated the sinner’s prayer and was saved. Yet it was not the words I prayed that saved me; it was my faith in Jesus. At the time, I did not understand much about Jesus, but I trusted Him. The amazing thing is that He understood everything about me, yet He still trusted me with the gift of salvation.
Yes, it is easy to receive salvation. You don’t have to do anything or say anything. All you have to do is trust Jesus and surrender your life to Him. However, it is not easy to live for Jesus after you’re saved. Regardless of what you may have been led to believe, challenges exist. I know. I am sixty-eight years old. I have been saved since I was nine. Yet I still struggle with the same sins I struggled with as a teenager. I thought it would get easier, but it didn’t.
Jesus never promised that walking with Him would be easy. He told us that in this world we would have trials and tribulations. But He did promise that His grace would be sufficient. The perfection of His power is revealed when we are weak. So, when I struggle with sin, I know the Lord God helps me and I will never be disgraced.
For this reason, I am determined to be hardheaded as I face the world. I know I will never be put to shame. It is Jesus Christ who has vindicated me and He will never be far from me. Together with Him, I will stand. Because life in this world ain’t easy.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love.
Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.”
I Peter 1:3-9 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/1pe.1.3-9.NKJV
Douglas & Deborah Huff
From Down Where the Pavement Ends
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