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In the Light of Common Ground.

I often wondered what it would be like to be a robot. No feelings, no emotions, no friends no family. Just a steel body, a blank mind and nobody to love..even if we know what that word means? Have you ever felt like you are the only one in the world who wants to make a difference, let me clarify. We have one life to live and if this life is easy for you this is your only life. I do not doubt for one second that you believe in yourself, but that is the problem. We are only free from ourselves when we give our lives, not for ourselves but for others. No one can really love the way that Christ loved you you say. What about the early Christians and all those who have been killed and are suffering for their belief in God. Suffering doesn't prove you are saved, but it is a clear indication that you are not a child of the devil. All this talk about life being easy makes me sick. Life was never easy for Jesus, why should it be easy for everyone else? You are not saved by your goodness and the lack of difficulty in your life, right now might just prove that you are not really saved.
 Blessing in the Bible is sometimes given to people as a test, to see if they are sincere. Blessing is a curse for some people because they live like there is no God and they fail to see that there will be a day of Judgement, where Christ will return to judge the living and the dead. Have you forgotten the verse in the bible where it says, when you have done it unto the least of these, you have done it unto Me, Jesus says. What does that verse mean you ask? The poor, the mentally ill, the homeless, the outcasts of society..these are the people that Jesus will welcome into His Kingdom at the end of time. When you have done it unto the least of these, you have done it unto me. I'm all for theology but theology cannot save you, only Jesus Christ saves you and he doesn't save you so you can live your life on an island, he saves you so you can make a difference in this world. What are you doing for Christ right now? Not what have you done to him in the past. Is your life really your own, because if it is Jesus said you would loose it.
 Do you remember the parable where the Lord command His servants to invite people to His banquet? and at the very end everyone was so busy with their own lives that they refused the call to go to Heaven? So Jesus told his servant to go out into the streets and call whoever was willing to spend eternity with God. That is the meaning of the parable, at the end of time if you are not living for Jesus now you will refuse Him when he invites you, not because you hate Him, but because you will have consumed the life he gave to you to find Him on living for yourself. Plain and simple. You say that Jesus is your Lord and you say that you are living for Him, but what have you done for him today, yesterday doesn't matter and it won't matter in eternity. Jesus saves the lost, have you become too proud to admit that you still need Him?

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