Before I came to Lord Jesus, I used to think like this: 

I steal a little pin – it is not a big sin like robbing a bank. I hate somebody and I am happy when something bad happens to him. I have not done anything to harm him. I am not in jail like all the criminals, so I am a good person.  I am not a sinner. I do not need to ask God for forgiveness. How wrong I was! 

God has given His basic laws in the Bible in Exodus 20: 3 – 17. They are called ‘The Ten Commandments’.  When I break even one of them, I sin. The Lord Jesus explained all the laws of God very simply: “Love God with your whole heart. Love others as yourself.”

Most of my sins are against God and against other people.  God knows everything that is in my heart.  He not only sees what I do, but He also knows all my reasons. I cannot hide anything from Him. I cannot pretend to be a good person outside and be a different person on the inside. I realize what a big sinner I am in God’s sight.  I love my Lord.  I do not want to do what He hates.  I humbly ask for His forgiveness for all my sins. I now want to live a life that will honor Him.  I do not ever want to go back to my old sinful ways and bring dishonor to my Savior who gave his life for me.

The Bible tells us :

“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new person; the old sinful person has gone, the new has come.”   

Prayer: “Lord God, I give You my heart’s full devotion. Please help me not to sin, but live a new pure life for You. Amen”

Another day, He sees that the people who follow Him are hungry. There are more than 5000 people!  He does not want to send them away hungry. One little boy gives Jesus his lunch. Jesus blesses it and there is enough food for all the people and lots leftover! Now He is on a boat on the Sea of Galilee. A big storm comes up and His disciples are terrified. He gives a command and the wind and the storm stops immediately! 

Another time He walks on water on the sea when his disciples were in the boat and comes to them. He often forgives people’s sins as He heals them.  He tells them having their sins forgiven is even more important than healing for their body. He changes the lives of everyone who comes seeking Him. A tax collector who cheated people, a woman caught in adultery, a religious leader, and many others receive forgiveness and new life from Him. The Lord Jesus proves that He is God by many, many outer and inner miracles. I believe He is God who came down to earth. Do you believe also, my friend?

Prayer: “Dear Lord Jesus, You are a miracle-working God. I want to follow You all my life.”

God tells us in the Bible in John 1:12: “To all who received Lord Jesus, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God. ”That includes you and me when we accept Lord Jesus as our Savior and get God’s forgiveness!  God wipes out our sins.  He makes us clean and accepts us as His children!

Now He welcomes us with open arms as we run to Him calling “Abba! My Father!”  He is delighted when we go to Him and talk to him and tell Him that we love Him. What joy to become part of God’s family and to have God Himself as our Heavenly Father!  We have been ‘born again’ into God’s family! God tells us in the Bible in John 3:16: “ For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but will have eternal life.”

”Prayer: “Dear Heavenly Father, I’m so grateful that I am Your child. Thank You for Your amazing love for me in sending Your Son to save me.” 

Now, all of us humans, are born with a desire to sin because our first parents sinned. We do wrong things and sin against God all the time. Sin and its results are terrible, as we see in our world today. These dark sins separate us from our most Holy and pure God. We cannot go near Him. God tells us in the Bible: “All have sinned and fall short of God’s glorious standard.”

Prayer: “Lord God, I’m so sorry I have sinned against you.  Please forgive me.  I do not want my sins to separate me from You. Please help me not to sin.”