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How to Have LIFE's Most Important Relationship! 

Two Feelings That Won’t Go Away

We’ve all felt them…

? Someone’s Missing

In the lonely moments, you know there’s a relationship that you don’t have that you’re suppose to have. But every relationship ultimately leaves you with the hole in your heart. Then there’s the other feeling…

? Something’s Wrong

With my world….with people in my family…..with me. There’s too much hurt….too many masks…..too much “me first”

Your Creator is the Someone who’s missing, because….

There’s a Relationship You’re Created to Have.

God’s book, the Bible, tell us that: “…All things [YOU!] were created by him [Jesus Christ] and for Him.”

But why am I missing this relationship?

It’s a Relationship You Don’t Have Because You’ve Run Your Own Life.

We were created “for Him.” We live “for ourselves”

“Your Iniquities [wrongdoings] have separated you from your God”

We don’t have a relationship with the One we were made for because sin has created a gap between us and our Creator.

Sin is the “something wrong” at the root of our selfishness and our dark feelings –and it is really explained by its middle letter, “I.” Day after day, we make more ”my way” choices. Because God is 100% sinless,  all our “my way” choices have created this “grand canyon” between us and the Person we were made by and for. If we die with that chasm between God and us, it will be there forever, because “the wages of sin is death….” That “death penalty” for running our own lives is the awful price for sin -separation from God now….and forever.

So how can we cross that canyon between us and our Creator?

This “Death Penalty” for Running Our Own Lives Must be Paid

Religion can’t pay it.

Neither can good living.

“It is by grace you have been saved [from sin], through faith–and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God–not by works, so that no one can boast” 

You Can Have a Relationship with God Because of What Jesus Did!

“Christ died for sins… to bring you to God.”

You did the sinning, but Jesus did the dying on His cross. Because He loves you, He paid the death penalty for every wrong thing you’ve ever done. Then He rose from the dead three days after He died. Jesus is alive!

What you do with Him is the most important decision you will ever make. The missing relationship becomes yours when your sin is erased from God’s book.

You Have to Choose This Relationship with God.

God did His part when His Son died for you.

Now it’s your move.

Your move begins with you…

“Repent…. and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out…”

Turing to God means you are also turning from something. As you turn to Jesus, you “repent.” That means you are willing to put your self-run and sinful life behind you, realizing that Jesus and sin don’t belong together. You are putting all your trust in Jesus to forgive your sins and to give you eternal life. You’re ready for God when you can put your name in the most famous verse in the Bible:

“God so loved __________ (your name) that He gave His one and only Son, that [if] __________ (your name) believe in Him, [then] ___________ (your name) shall not perish, but have eternal life.”

We Must Turn to God in Total Trust.

Believing in Christ is hanging on to Jesus like a drowning person grabbing a lifeguard and saying, “Lord, I’m pinning all my hopes of forgiveness and rescue on you.”

When you give yourself to your Savior, the sin-gap is gone forever, and at last you have a personal relationship with the Person you were made by and made for! The “missing person” is missing no more!

This relationship can be yours for life….

and forever!

You can belong to God from today on if you will tell Him with all your heart something like this….

“Lord, I’ve been running my own life, but I resign as of today. I’ve been living for me. I’m sorry for my sin. I believe Your Son Jesus Christ paid my death penalty when He died on the cross. Right now I’m turning from a life of “my way” and I’m putting all my trust in Jesus Christ to erase my sin from Your book, to give me a relationship with You, and to get me to heaven. Lord, from today on, I’m Yours.”

If you really meant what you just prayed, you have begun life’s most important relationship! If you still have questions about beginning your personal relationship with Jesus Christ, please Contact Us so that we can help you get your relationship with Christ off to a great start.