Heritage Singers

NOT disqualified

( Icon "The Holy Trinity". Painter: Robin Johansson
His Blog: http://kristenkyrka.wordpress.com/ )

Dear Reader,
Time passes quickly and posts have become more rare. In May I reached one year of blogging and I think one or two people have returned here and I hope they have found comfort and thoughts that have encouraged them. I have asked myself several times if this has any value to anyone out there or if it has just been self serving; but then again if it has helped just one it has served its purpose.

The title of the post comes from a meeting with a stranger some weeks ago. He came uninvited on a mission to make me a new member in the organization he belongs to. He has to do his work to qualify for the Kingdom of God.

He wanted me to study his literature and most of all join his organization in order to be qualified for the Kingdom of God. I told him I was already qualified for the Kingdom of God because Jesus had died in my place, forgiven my sins; given me peace with God and now lives in my heart.

In the beginning he agreed with everything I said but finally I was too stubborn about my faith in Jesus and that he is the only way to salvation, the only redeemer of sin and that Jesus is fully man and fully God at the same time; and so he revealed his true identity and that he didn't agree with me at all. If I joined his organization and studied the literature I would know Jesus better.
According to this man's belief, Jesus was a created human being; the Holy Spirit an impersonal ghost and the faith in the Father, Son and Holy spirit was an abomination. I believed in three gods was his conclusion. When I told him that was not the case; he still insisted that I was doing just that and we started a somewhat heated debate where he had no clue what I was talking about when I talked about grace.

How do you make somebody understand; that has been fooled for 26 years into believing that he has to please God with works before he can be saved? I pleaded with him to honestly ask God to reveal Jesus to him; to ask God to explain Jesus to him and trust that God was bigger than all his doctrines and traditions. Simply that God was not stupid!
He looked puzzled as if it was totally unthinkable to approach God like a child and ask for help. It wasn't something he could do. He said knowledge would free me and then I could see clearly that I was wrong. He had no understanding for emotions and he only knew God from the scripture but obviously the scripture had not reached his heart. We parted in peace but I felt sad for him. He had all the knowledge; he could recite more Bible verses than I ever will be able to but he didn't know what they meant. They were just words that he had to know by heart.

He has been misguided by liars; put in prison by a doctrine that has invented a salvation that is not built upon the salvation through Jesus. But God let him stop by my house and now I have another person on my prayer list. I didn't get his name but God knows who he is.

As for you reader; the Book of Romans, chapter 5, says it all. Read it!

Sincerely yours, Ida