Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 94

 

Repeat after Jesus:

“Our Father who art in Heaven”

 

Why shouldn’t one go to heaven the moment one surrenders to Jesus and receives Him as His Savior? 

 

Wouldn’t it be great to be totally secure leaving this world of sin and not to take any risk to sin again and offend God?

 

Salvation is not only for the good of the one being saved but also for the common good of the body of believers who are yet to be saved, and, above all, it is for the glory of God.

 

Saints are separated from the world to make visible the invisible God. They are separated in order to give testimony of the Holy nature of the name of God and to be light in a world in darkness and ignorance.

 

Jesus chose the way of the cross in complete renunciation in order to witness God’s love to the world. Followers of Christ are not spared from the self-renunciation of the cross in order that they too might testify that God is holy and will not tolerate sin.

 

The cross is the wisdom and will of God to make his own totally fit for citizenship in heaven. How the saint reacts to suffering shows the grace of God to the world in every generation. That is testimony as witnesses of Jesus. We are in the world to testify the grace of Jesus.

 

This is the teaching elder on duty in matters of Prayer.

Gerry Gutierrez.