May we believe

They say- follow the rules and you'll succeed.

You find it impossible to follow all the rules.

A system is set up that offers you a way to atone for breaking the rules.

The system points to a time when no system will be needed to make the atonement, but rather a person will take over and all, even those who are not born into the rule followers, will be able to ask this person to make that atonement for them.

When that person takes over, do you need to stop following the rules?

Did the person take over the atoning process so you could break the rules?

Were the rules completely done away with because that person took the place of the atoning sacrifice?

Why do so many believe this is exactly what happened?

Yes, it is impossible for us to keep the rules as we should because we are imperfect. Yet that doesn't do away with the rules. If the rules disappeared then love disappears because those rules exist because of love. The rules are ALL made from love and concern love. There isn't a single rule that can be separated from love.

If you choose to not love, you choose to break the rules willfully. 

Many will keep a lot of the rules naturally because they do want love to rule over the hate and sin in their lives. But many will break the rules as they seek to stop loving and start self serving.

The heart of the rule breaking is selfishness the opposing force of love.

Jesus came and lived of life of serving others in many ways. Jesus did not serve Himself first in anything.  

No wonder the self servers who wanted Jesus to become their leader in self serving were so quick to turn against Him when He wouldn’t give in to their self serving ways.  How easy it is for us to turn on Jesus when our own self serving ways are not met, even when we believe our ways aren't self serving- say we are praying for another's healing and it doesn't come to pass. Our idea of what's best for someone is often what's best for ourselves- we serve self.  The passing of an infant, the tragic death of a young child  who are we to say these are not blessings for the children that we can't comprehend because all we feel is the anguish, the loss we are left with. We can't know the whys and wherefores, we can't see the end from the beginning, but in all things shouldn't we pray God's will be done and accept that because we have faith that HE who DOES know the end from the beginning is working His will from love in a way we can't begin to fathom. ALL the pain and suffering is temporary to eternity. We must believe that in the eternity to come all those who suffer innocently will be rewarded beyond our ability to comprehend.  To be able to ask one who suffered horrifically now if it was worth it once they are secure in the eternity of love, you KNOW they will say it was, even if it is the most horrendous abuse we can imagine.  We don't understand and it pains us to witness the horrors, but we must have faith that through it all there is purpose, there is meaning, there is a reward, there is eternity.   We must not serve ourselves in believing in our own idea of what would be a better plan, a better way. We must believe in God's plan in His way, He created us in His image, not to be tortured but to be able to receive and give love.

Jesus died so we could live.

Jesus did NOT die so we could live without the rules, without love's guidelines.

Jesus died so we could comprehend the rules He lived perfectly He lived for us to reveal to us that it is possible to live with the rules and the rules are NOT grievous.

1Jn 5:1  Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

1Jn 5:2  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

1Jn 5:3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

1Jn 5:4  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

1Jn 5:5  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

1Jn 5:6  This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.

1Jn 5:7  For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

1Jn 5:8  And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

1Jn 5:9  If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

1Jn 5:10  He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

1Jn 5:11  And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

1Jn 5:12  He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

1Jn 5:13  These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Rom 3:24  Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Rom 3:25  Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Rom 3:26  To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Rom 3:27  Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

Rom 3:28  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Rom 3:29  Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

Rom 3:30  Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

Rom 3:31  Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

May we believe.

May we follow and love the commandments of love, trusting in our Savior to save us because we know that it is possible through HIM for those commandments of love to be kept fully, wholly.  Only in Him is there hope.

Please, Father, bless us with the HOPE of eternal life in Jesus Christ, in our being able THROUGH HIS POWER, through the HOLY SPIRIT, we are able to live the life of love You designed us to live.

All in the name of our Savior, Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord!

Amen.