The Cross That Saved My Life

Our death is not sufficient to atone for sin because atonement requires a perfect, spotless sacrifice, offered in just the right way. Jesus, the one perfect God-man, came to offer the pure, complete and everlasting sacrifice to remove, atone, and make eternal payment for our sin.

            Have you ever thought why God gave His only Son to save us?  Ever since I was a little girl, I always thought that a cross is a symbol of pain and suffering. It is a wonder to me why churches have cross when you see in the movie that cross is being used to hurt someone. I never thought that, that cross will change everything from the moment I heard the word of God.

It is said in 1 Peter 1:18-19, Jesus paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors (Adam and Eve). And the ransom was not mere gold or silver. He paid for you with the precious lifeblood of Christ, the sinless spotless Lamb of God. Jesus, paid our sins as a whole. Sins committed by the human race is all been washed away by the Son of God. Sins has been taken out and paid by Jesus.. God gave His only Son to save the world because he loves us so much.

If you’re a father or a mother, will you be willing to give the life of your only son to wash away the sins of someone don’t even care for you at all?  Come to think of it, hard yet God gave it all out. It is a privileged to have God’s love, when you don’t give it back to Him, and when we take it all for granted every time we commit a sin. A pastor once quoted, Christian life is not easy.. it is impossible. But this should be the hindrance to continue living through His word after everything God has done for us. We may not be perfect enough not to commit a sin because of our selfishness. But remember this every time you wake up, God gave His only Son to save you.. How many times did you let Jesus be crucified because of you, because of your sins? Why will He not give you everything? Is it too much to ask to give the love back to our Savior?

The Lord Is My Savior

I am Ronnalyn Tubig-Aheren, a person who thinks that God is just God who looks after us, loving people, the creator or heaven and earth. For me ever since I was a little girl I never thought that our God can save my life and my family’s life. For a person who’s not really into deep diving of the word of God won’t realize His worth on one’s life. 

I was never a proud christian, because I know people might think I am corny, I am boring, and that I am the good girl for which delivers the message that I am not a cool person. Until I accompanied a friend in the mall and she said she has to go because she needs to go to church, it was never my intention to come with her to worship. I just asked her if I could go with her so I have someone with me because I don’t want to go home yet because it’s just noon. Months had passed and I still continue to go to christian church, not mainly because of the freewill but an obligation to God.

John 8:1-11 (New International Version)

John 8

 ¹But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ²At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. ³The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group ⁴and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. ⁵In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” ⁶They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.

   But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. ⁷When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” ⁸Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

 ⁹At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. ¹⁰Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

 ¹¹“No one, sir,” she said.
      ”Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin