My journey with Grace manifested itself in my life in the
year 2009. I’d known for years that my Calling in life and what I was being
taught in most churches wasn’t exactly lining up with what The Holy Spirit was
telling me was, The Truth, His Truth!
For years I felt and knew that the guilt and condemnation I
was feeling from not going to church every Sunday, desiring to go on a date
with my husband to a club and judging people who weren’t as spiritual as I was,
wasn’t exactly right. I knew in my heart that I wasn’t feeling guilty before
God, but I was before man, and I didn’t know how to escape the turmoil in my
spirit I knew wasn’t God-imposed.
It wasn’t until after I accepted the Call of God on my life
to teach His Word that He showed me the True Way to His Heart, which was to teach
His people about His GRACE, no guilt and no condemnation!
My Calling in life as a Christian and a Christian Minister
is not to add any sorrow to His people, not to condemn or add any more guilt to
their lives. People already feel guilty enough in life. Guilt and condemnation is
the reason why unbelievers don’t accept Him as God and why Christians judge and
condemn others. When you don’t feel accepted, you in turn make others feel unaccepted,
and not only is this a recipe for disaster, it’s also a tactic of the devil,
known as “misery loves company!”
Well I’m here to tell you that God loves you, just as you
are! Romans 5:6 tells us, “For when we were yet without strength, in due time
Christ died for the ungodly. For
scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some
would even dare to die. BUT GOD
COMMENDENTH HIS LOVE TOWAR US IN THAT, WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS, CHRIST DIED
FOR US!" Christ died for the ungodly, and that was you and I; so why do we
make sinners or unbelievers feel as if they have to get their lives right,
before God will accept them as His own, and then we go on to make them feel
they must keep themselves right after they are saved for God to continue to
love and accept them. Did you become
saved by any of your own doing besides confession and belief? Then what makes
you think you can keep yourself saved by what you do? You can only please God
by having faith in Him and in Him alone! “For without Christ I am nothing!”
As Christians we need to stop condemning, and judging
unbelievers, because the tactics we are using is losing them and not gaining
them. The Bible tells us in Romans 2:4, “Or
despises thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not
knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance.” That’s right
it is the GOODNESS OF GOD THAT LEADS PEOPLE
TO REPENTANCE. Not the chastisement or judgment!
So my plea and prayer for you today is that as Christians we
would stop bible beating, condemning, and placing guilt on God’s people. Yes, I
said God’s people, because whether we want to admit it or not He made us all,
good, bad or indifferent. Granted we have freedom of choice to choose Him or
not, but it is only THE LOVE OF GOD THAT
WILL BRING UNBELIEVERS TO A PLACE OF REPENTANCE, a place to where they will even
want to look at your life and say, WOW, “WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?”
Embrace His Love, Grace and Mercy in your life today and
truly begin to live the life He desires for all His Children, “An Abundant
Life!”
Forever In His Grace
Toinette Neube
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