Winner! - Winner! - Winner!

How would you live if you knew that you would not fail?

What would your attitude be when you woke up in the morning if you knew that you would be a success at the end of the day?

Talk about a sense of confidence!

Those of us who have placed our faith in JESUS and have been regenerated can truely live this way! GOD'S Word promises it!

We are told that we are GOD'S workmanship - GOD made us.

HE created us to do good things - that is our purpose.

GOD prepared those good things for us to do - we just do them.

You may be asking yourself, 'So let me get this straight - the GOD that created all things by just a word, all-powerful, immense, perfect, righteous has prepared things for us to do?' Sort of a divine project manager. Let's think about that for a moment. The first thing that comes to mind is why would HE choose me to do anything? I know me. There are sometimes that I would not choose me. I am weak - flawed - selfish - mean. Why would GOD choose me ( or you ) for anything? Now we begin to see the true nature of the LOVE of GOD. Remember, GOD loved the world enough to send JESUS to die for it so that we would have a healed relationship with HIM. If GOD loved us while we were strangers from HIM - not just strangers that did not know HIM but people that ran from HIM and sometimes hated HIM. WOW! Thats a lot of LOVE!

OK so GOD loves us. But HE still knows us. After all GOD is all-knowing - there are no secrets from GOD - GOD sees everything we do and knows every thought we think. WOW. So even if our relationship is healed with HIM. HE still knows how we really are...right? Here comes the really great part...wait for it...wait for it. When we are saved GOD has chosen to not see the bad in us any more. WHAT???? HOW CAN THAT BE???? It is true GOD only sees us through the perfection of JESUS. JESUS' sacrifice - ON THE CROSS, IN OUR PLACE, FOR OUR SINS paid the total price for all of our sins. HE took our sins and gave us HIS perfection. Now GOD only sees us as perfect. Now back to my original thought - How would you live if you knew that you could not fail?

GOD has prepared good works for us to do. How do we know what these works are? Get your head in the WORD and find them. We are told to take care of widows and orphans, we are told to tell our neighbors about JESUS, we are told to live a life that makes people wonder and when they ask us why we live like we do we tell them that we can't lose! Remember, if you have been saved - you are a winner! Lets start living like it and make a difference in our families and our community!

WHO'S WITH ME?