For One and All, the Same
Ten thousand people doing something wrong does not,as the number of wrong-doers increases,eventually make the wrong right!'They do it too' is a dangerous excuse if 'they' are doing wrong!
2 Cor.5:9-10 (read the whole sacred chapter )Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad...
We are well known to GodOur hearts, an open pageThen bow before Him, wholly awedFor He holds judgment’s wage
A wage we justifyWith simple clarityThe track-record of our replyWill prove if we loved He
…who suffered CalvaryTo pardon our sinSo that all who believe will beHeirs and co-heirs with Him
(To believe is to knowFor all that we do notThat by the grace of God we goRegardless of our lot)
The hour we believeRepenting of our sinIs the same hour we receiveEternal life with Him
Through God’s Son, sacrificedSalvation’s gift was wroughtRepentance, through the blood of ChristRedeems each soul, blood-bought
How Mercy must have groanedKnowing love’s albatrossTo gain the joy of sin atonedHe must endure the cross
But there, belief beginsA lifelong wondermentIn He who forgives our sinsAnd makes the heart content
He arms us for faith’s strifeThrough the might of His nameHe is the Way, the Truth, the LifeFor one and all, the same
© Janet Martin
John 3:14-1814 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.