To: Nicole
Date: July 17, 2008
Why I Believe in Jesus and Being Saved
Was the world and us accidents or created?
I believe the world and you were created by a God in love with you (us), because the mountains and beaches, and you are more beautiful than anything I have ever seen man make. When I saw you for the first time (actually besides the medical staff I was the first person you looked at) you were the most beautiful, fragile thing I had ever seen. And once I was rested, I thanked Jesus for your health and promised him to take the best care of you and most importantly love you while in my care. Although I am your father on earth, your ultimate father is God.
Psalm 139:13-16 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Do we need God in our life?
I believe we have a relationship with God rather it is good and strong, or just there but not
involving, distant and weak. God has given us the freedom to choose. Just as you have a relationship with me your earthly father, and it can be loving and tight, or it could be like the relationship I have had with my father all my life: distant, cold and unloving. Each of us must decide what is really important with the time on earth the Lord has given us.
God (our Father) is there and wants to love us. But he does not want us to love him because we have to, or because he said so. He wants our love to be real, sincere and genuine. Just like I do not love you because it is my job. I love you because it is just part of my heart, genetic make-up (the way God made me); it is real, not fake. I love you unconditionally, and that is how God loves you too.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world (you) that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Why Jesus? Why not Buddha, Mohammad, a cow, or someone famous in Hollywood etc?
I believe the Bible is the word from God to help us here while we are here on earth. The Bible is specific, clear and on point as to why you should believe in Jesus.
John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Many people believe just trying to be a good person is enough to go to heaven, but Jesus clearly said otherwise.
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit.
We cannot have a relationship with God without accepting Jesus as his son, and that he was sinless and died then rose to life because we had sin that needed to be removed to see God. Remember “The Passion of the Christ” movie? If you do not believe it is true. Then you would be telling God your Father that he is a liar. Totally disrespecting your Father (Creator). How hurtful is that?
Jesus died to take the penalty our sins deserved. He took punishment that was ours. And unlike Buddha, Mohammad or any other religious figure Jesus did not stay dead like them. He rose from death to life. He promises this for each of his children too when we die.
How can you be sure you our in a relationship with Jesus?
The bible gives us instructions on how to know for sure.
Romans 10:9, 10 That if you confess with your month, “Jesus is Lord, “and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
From this I believe if you sincerely acknowledge that the movie “The Passion of the Christ” is true and verbally admit it. Then you are welcomed back into God’s family.
Also, when you do this you get the Holy Spirit in you to help you daily in deciding what is right in how to live your life and make decisions.
Be careful because once you have the Holy Spirit in you I believe you will know in your heart right from wrong forever. If you do wrong you will know it and have lots of guilty feelings.
What will you do with your relationships?
I am old, but recently learned from YOU that relationships are more important than goals, tasks, or objectives. Most of my life I have had big dreams of want I wanted to accomplish in my life. I have not accomplished most of them. But sometimes I did accomplish my goal and often it turned out to be a disaster for my life. For example, I wanted to be the first in my family to own my own business. But I did not pray that it be God’s plan for me and it failed. I did not consult my Holy Spirit. (Actually I ignored it.) Even worst I sacrificed two years with you that I cannot get back. For this I am truly sorry to you. I always said to myself that I would be the opposite father that mine was to me.
The good news is God used this experience to tell me that relationships are more important than goals. Once you’re saved Jesus puts in you the Holy Spirit. You should use your Holy Spirit daily the rest of your life in making decisions. Do not ignore it like I did.
John 14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
Just as you will always be my daughter and I will always love you unconditionally. Jesus (the ultimate Father) will always love you unconditionally as a daughter of his family.
In conclusion, experiencing Love is the most important thing in life to me. Both receiving it and giving it. And I believe Love is the whole reason for Jesus.
Mark 12: 28-31 One of the teachers of law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
“The most important one,“ answered Jesus, “is this: ’Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ’Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
If you do these two things, then everything else will fall into place in your life.
