Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 24 April 2012
LIVE FOREVER
Having reached midlife, and with five decades of life experiences, it is appropriate to tell of the most important life experience that should not be discounted. Live forever... I am just so aware of my mortality nowadays. Life is rough. We need grace to get through it, and to improve its quality. Beauty will arouse your senses and hopefully satisfy them, but truth will deliver your mind and heal it. Rarely do these two attributes coincide, yet people spend their entire life journey seeking after spiritual experiences that will satisfy their senses as well as their minds. Live forever...! People talk of an epiphany. This is something that we experience in our spirits, something that just feels so right, and that we long for more of. There is the pain of the Cross, and there is the joy of Pentecost. I have experienced both, grieving and elation, and completeness. LIVE FOREVER...! This is what it means to be born again.
PRAY THIS PRAYER
Father in heaven, I now understand that it is impossible to earn salvation and eternal life by what I know or do. I confess that I am a sinner: I have sinned against you and against people. I am sorry. Please forgive me. Lord Jesus Christ, I believe you are the Son of God, the Saviour, that you lived a perfect, holy life, and that you died on the cross to take the punishment and to pay the penalty for the sins of all humanity, especially those who believe. I also believe that the Father resurrected you from the dead through the power of the Holy Spirit. Take control of my life right now. From this moment forward, I believe that the blood of Jesus cleanses me from all my sins, and that it is the unmerited favour of God that saves me. I choose to place my faith in God alone. I choose to trust in God. Lord Holy Spirit, thank you for your grace and love that has reached me at last. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus' name, Amen.
