Dare You To Move

Have any of you ever had the same things come up over and over again in the course of a week? 

Because that's what happened to me.

Last Friday, at my youth group, we were talking about how you know you're going to heaven. It was all about how many people in the world think that they go to heaven based on their works, but in the Christian faith, it's the opposite--you get to heaven based on salvation and faith, and your works determine the rewards you will receive once you get to heaven.

And, come Monday, I was thinking about my boyfriend (reixedyri for all of you that don't know him) and a conversation we had a few weeks ago. It was all about my post on... evangelism, I believe. He brought up a good point, about how he wished that we could get to heaven based on our works instead of believing in a certain god. I decided to write this down in a notebook, and the resulting explanation ended up being twelve pages. My friend, M, read it, and thought that it explained my point of view fairly well.

And guess what Pastor Charles Stanley was talking about In Touch, his TV show?

That's right--faith.

It wasn't exactly about why good people can't go to heaven and why only those who believe in the Christian god can go to heaven, but it was all about bearing the greatest burden--which was, of course, sin. It was about Jesus's role as a sin-bearer, and how to truly be free of the bondage of sin we must trust in the Lord to get  us through it. Why people can only get to heaven through faith was only a small part in his sermon, but it really struck a cord with me, just because I had just been talking and writing about it.

I find it interesting that on three different occasions, the same exact thing came up and really impacted me in a way it wouldn't have had it only come up once.

It just goes to show that God brings things into our lives for a reason, doesn't it?