FILL’ER UP

By Rick Mathes

John 10:10 (NASB77) ¹⁰ “The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly.

You can rest assured that while you are asleep tonight the devil will be doing push-up! His entire focus is to steal, kill and destroy anything and everything the Lord wants to bless you with. He wants your life: every moment of it. But Jesus wants you to have all your heavenly treasure now because you are His and He doesn’t want to hold any good thing back. He wants you to have His blessings to the full. What can you expect to enjoy?

Let’s start with the mercy you certainly don’t deserve. Thank you Jesus my friends, family and faor that matter the police don’t know the sins I’ve committed and laws I have broken. By His grace I am saved!

We’ve been redeemed and that could not ever have been done by any effort on our part. Apart from Jesus, there is neither redemption nor freedom from sin and the punishment we deserve.

It took a full pardon to clean the slate of all our wrong doings. Just a little sin would spoil holiness. No darkness can be in the light of God. We must be purely holy so no sin could go unpunished.

For most of us, our salvation was the result of answered prayer. When we finally said, “I can’t!” you could hear the heaven thunder the Lord’s response, “I CAN!”

It’s all by the unmerited gift of stooping grace God became man to take your punishment and die on the death stake in your place. What more can He do? All you have to do is accept His sacrifice worthwhile.

How can we ever thank Him for assigning us to the care of His Holy Spirit? Through Him we receive understanding as the words in the Bible come alive and leap off of the pages to us. Oh how great it is to have His blessing to the full: to the brim and over the top.

Lastly, the gift of eternal living with Him in glory is a benefit that only believers will ever enjoy. We will see and enjoy Him as He is and never return to the emptiness we hated without His fellowship.