New Life

There are people who are addicted to worldly pleasures and sins. There near ones try to counsel them or take them to de-addiction centre. Now days the youth has fallen into the trap of drugs, which is hideous. Once you are addicted to any worldly pleasures, it is difficult to come out and have a new life.

When you check through the Bible, in Acts 9, we see a man called Saul, who was so religious that he disliked Christian believers and wanted to kill them. But then Jesus changed his life and he ended up being a powerful believer and wrote majority of Epistles in the Bible. It all happened the moment Jesus talked to him. His life got changed and he got a new life.

In India a man called Sundar Singh lived in the state of Punjab. He was so fount of his religion and he persuaded to kill Christians. He gathered the Bibles and burned them. Then one day he got a vision of Jesus and his life changed. He got a new life and he became a great missionary called Sadhu Sundar Singh.

When you have a new life, the old will be forgotten. “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come, the old has gone, and the new is here!” – 2 Corinthians 5: 17. This happened in the life of Saul in Acts 2. After he saw Jesus, his life changed and he left his friends and horse who accompanied him in the journey. Same way when you are changed in Christ Jesus, you will leave your worldly friends and relatives.

Everywhere persecutions against the Christian believers are going on. Never have I heard that any believer opposing against the mob or terrorists with weapons. These has being happening from the beginning and guess what, people are leaving their old worldly religion and accepting Christ Jesus. Before Jesus ascended to Heaven, He called His disciples and told them to go everywhere and make disciples for Christ, not through weapons, but through love. Why? Because only way to reach heaven is to get saved and accept Christ as their saviour.

May the Spirit of God help you to repent sins and accept salvation in Christ Jesus to have an eternal life. “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins” – Acts 2: 38