My Greatest Feeling In Life!

God has spared the physical life He gave me from my mother’s womb until this present time in the 21st century. 

By God’s grace, I have been a “born-again” Christian for decades, and with absolutely no regrets. Having been raised in a Christian home provided the “springboard” for me to “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen” (2 Peter 3:18).   

Therefore, I can truly identify with the Apostle Paul when he told Timothy “and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 3:15). Sacred writings refers to the Bible.

My late father led our family in prayers and spiritual devotions seven mornings each week. This was absolutely the right thing to do and continue. The intent groomed me to recognize my need to have a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ by receiving Him as my Savior.

At the age of thirteen years, I confessed Jesus as Lord and believed in my heart that God raised Him from the dead; and the Scripture says: I will be saved. “For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved” (Romans 10:9,10).    

From that time until the present, I have absolutely no regrets. I’m not perfect—neither is any human on the face of this earth. The only perfect person who ever lived was Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Jesus was very man of very man, and yet very God of very God. By becoming man in human form, Christ was able to die on the Cross in order to reconcile sinful man to the holy God. By being very God of very God, Christ was completely sinless.

The Bible says, Jesus “committed no sin, neither was deceit found in His mouth. When He was reviled, He did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten” (1 Peter 2:22,23). 

And yet, the Bible says: “For our sake [God} made [Jesus] to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

I will always be abundantly grateful to God for His Holy Word—the Bible, or the Scriptures, which is a “God Book,” since God is its divine author. And “knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:20,21).    

I cannot live without God’s Word, which is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my pathway (Psalm 119:105). Here’s what the Bible says about itself: “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:1,17).

My ongoing desire is to be the man of God complete, and equipped for every good work. For me, the Christian life is the “outliving of the in-living Jesus Christ” by faith. Paul puts it this way: “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:20). 

When Christ was crucified on the Cross for my sins, it means that I also was crucified in Him. William MacDonald makes a noteworthy comment: “This means the end of me as a sinner in God’s sight. It means the end of me as a person seeking to merit or earn salvation by my own efforts.  . . . The old, evil “I” has been crucified; it has no more claims on my daily life” (Believer’s Bible Commentary p. 1880 Thomas Nelson Publishers). 

Not only I have been crucified with Christ; I have also been raised with Him. The Scripture says, “For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his” (Romans 6:5).

No wonder all this gives me my greatest feeling in this present life as I endeavor to “seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God” (Colossians 3:1).