Life and death

This weekend was a beautiful weekend. On saturday, I attended a memorial for an aborted baby, which was beautiful to see the mother of the child working past the guilt and shame she was feeling for having an abortion. She named the baby and prior to the memorial, through listening prayer she was able to hold her baby and then place him in Jesus' arms so she could see that he was safe. It was a beautiful memorial. Then the next day we celebrated her birthday, which was also great! It was a great weekend to celebrate life.

As we were at the baby memorial, we sang Amazing Grace and i looked at my friend, the mother, and started to cry because I just saw the Lords amazing grace in her life, and I saw her being able to accept that grace now and it was truly great!

The Lords love and grace has amazed me recently. Like...the atonement. It happened so we could be at one with Christ...hense..AT-ONEment. If it wasnt for the atonement, where would we be? What kind of situation would we, as the church, be in? Well...I dont even think there would be a Christian church. The Lord has done great things for us and we don't even recognize it!


Paul says 'if we have Salvation through the atonement, should we keep on sinning?' (not a direct quote!) Umm...nope! We shouldn't. In hebrews 10:26, 27 it says

If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

Therefore, if we acknowledge that Christ has atoned for our sins, we cannot just say...well...Im saved, Im come into Salvation, so...I can just go on with my worldy life. It doesnt work that way! If we acknowledge christ and then continue sinning, we will have eternal judgement.

This is what has been going through my head recently.