For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

Rom 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

Dear friend I hope today has found you well and able to glorify God. I have been burdened with the words of many as I talk with them concerning their faith. Notice I didn't say religion, no because I don't care about some religion, what I care about is if you know Jesus as your personal Savior? The bible says that we are all sinners, it is by grace through faith that we are saved, not of ourselves lest any man should boast. Why dear friend would you then try to think that anything that you or me can do can merit the sacrifice for salvation? You see a lot of people I have been talking to lately put their faith in themselves, whether they want to admit to it or not. They think that they can live an incorruptible life, one in which they must not sin, and if they do then they have lost thier salvation. Well friend the more I read the bible the more I see how much of a dirty rotten sinner I am. Even when I think that I am living righteously for God there is some sin somewhere in my life, therefore I am a sinner saved by grace, nothing more. What a life I would lead as every second that God allows me to breath there is some sin in my life and I would never make it to heaven. For me to "do good things" is a deceitful lie even unto myself as the bible says there are none righteous no not one. I thank God in heaven for Jesus Christ however, the One that can cleanse me, and keep me. For my faith is in His power to uphold me and lead me, for if it wasn't for Jesus I would still be lost in the desires of my sinful heart. I have read more and more versus in the dear old blessed book about how God is able, and Jesus is able to save me, cleanse me, seal me, lead me, teach me, send me, show me, and take me through life. Not at one time in that last sentence did I say I can do anything, it is by Gods power that I am able. It is by His power and His alone that I can even call upon His name. I cannot physically see God at this moment, but by faith I know He is there, and His righteousness is revealed unto me. I also know that the just shall live by faith, that is trusting Jesus. Trusting Jesus to forgive me when I have done wrong, trusting Jesus to make a way of escape when temptation from this flesh is before me, trusting Jesus to be my all in all, for it is not by myself that I can do anything. In reference to salvation, I am trusting Jesus and the word of God as to the finished work on the cross of Calvary, that I may believe on Him that died on the cross and as Jesus said "It is finished". No more do I have to worry about death, and the grave, as I will be caught up in Glory with Him and receive an incorruptible body, one without spot or blemish. This of course is not until that day when the trump of God shall sound and all the dead in Christ shall rise. Until then friend we should continue in the things that the bible teaches, being a witness to all that God has written for our lives that others may know of our Blessed Redeemer Jesus Christ. It is by the blood that was shed for me by Jesus that I can be reconciled unto God and come into fellowship with Him, nothing I could have done, nor nothing that I still do can change the fact that my salvation is in the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone. I am a child of the King and entered into the family of God the father. I am His son, thruough Jesus Christ, by faith alone.