Faith in the family

https://odb.org/2024/12/15/just-like-grandma

As much as faith is personal, as parents, we want our children to profess the same faith as us. Just because we know the Lord, it doesn’t mean our children and their children will likewise know God. Faith in God is personal to the holder in the sense that we need to personally believe in the death and resurrection of Christ, believe that He died for our sins, and accept Him as our Lord and Saviour. It can not be by extension, and neither can it be by delegation or association. Our relationship with our God is not something that can be shared even with our spouses as we will all one day face Christ at the Bema judgment seat of Christ. Our faith is to be lived out personally by each and every one of us.

I had the privilege of having parents who were fervent in the faith and who served the Lord until their dying breath. Thus, although they have passed on, they live on in Christ (John 11:25), and one day, we will see them again. My wife and I and my children, their children, will see them one day when the dead in Christ will be resurrected and live with Christ and God the Father in the new heaven and new earth. But only if we are all in the faith. That we remain committed and faithful to the Lord until our dying day. In this end times era, there will emerge many who will deceive and turn us away from God. Read the bible, learn the tenets of our faith well, serve God with all our hearts, and fulfil God’s plans and purposes for our lives. The Lord will protect and preserve our hearts. We have free will to make our own decisions. Please always choose the narrow path that leads to eternal life. Let us be transformed more and more into the image of Christ as we do not conform to the pattern of this world, and we work out our salvation with fear and trembling!

Have a good time today worshipping God in His sanctuary, and may we meet Him face to face in the spirit as we worship Him in spirit and in truth. May our praise and worship be a sweet incense unto His heavenly throne!

P/s – Please pray for me, too, as I will be sharing the Word in my local church today. May the LORD our God use this earthly instrument of His to speak the Word in a manner that will make a difference in the lives of all who hear!