I don't know what you might be experiencing now but I know Jesus can bring a new dimension to your life. He can fill your life with a peace that defies description. He can fill your life with purpose, with the satisfaction that comes from helping others. He can fill your life with the assurance that comes from knowing that you belong to Him for all eternity. The Bible says in Acts 8:12, “But when they believed Philip as he preached the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.”
 
Vines Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words says to believe means, “…to be persuaded of, hence, to place confidence in, to trust, signifies, reliance upon, not mere credence.” Believing is not just something that happens between your ears, it is something that happens in your heart. To believe is to be moved in your heart to obey the Lord Jesus and be united with Him in the waters of baptism (Romans 6:3-7, Galatians 3:26-27). Baptism into Christ is the way you enter the Body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:13, Acts 2:47). Do you need to make peace with the past? Do you need purpose for today? Do you want hope for tomorrow? No matter what is or isn’t happening in your life right now believing in Jesus is the answer for your greatest problem – sin.

Clark Tatum

The grace of God is best expressed as getting God’s absolute best when we deserve the absolute worst. Before a person becomes a Christian he or she lives in a spiritual graveyard (Romans 3:23). The coroner’s report from God declares that all have fallen short of grace and in essence exists in a spiritual mortuary. There are varying degrees of decay, some are sick and dead, others are poor and dead, some are white and dead, some are black and dead, but all are equally dead - meaning without the life of God in them.

​The Apostle Paul wrote some words by inspiration in Ephesians 2:4-7 that jump out at me. These words seem to leap off the page and grab my attention. God’s grace rescued us from the eternal and hideous consequences of sin, while we were yet ignorant of our impending tragedy.

I like the story of an Indian who had become a Christian. Some of his brothers began to observe how different his lifestyle had become, they asked, “What has caused such a change?” He looked on the ground and found a worm and put it on some leaves and set them aflame. Just before the fire got to the worm, he reached down and rescued the worm and held it before his friends and said, “Me, worm.” That is what God’s grace does for all who look to Him by faith in Christ (Galatians 3:26-27).

Clark Tatum

Hebrews 2:1 says, “We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.” I hung up some fly paper in the corner of my garage and the first night it caught flies, mosquitoes and other insects. I don’t know why it keeps catching flies. I would think that a fly would figure out from his fellow flies that this isn’t safe. You’ll get stuck here—don’t stop here, but inevitably the fly paper keeps catching flies.

Satan’s traps are similar in that they are often subtle, but they have quite a stick to them. You would think we’d figure Satan’s traps out as well and do everything we can to help one another avoid the sin mistakes we have made. Satan is a liar and implies things like, “You can do this and be OK. You will not be there long enough to get hurt. You can do this and still be Ok with God.” That’s when the spiritual drift begins.

​Drifting away from what we have seen and heard is one of Satan’s most powerful weapons. The people that will go to heaven are those who entertain no part of compromising God’s Word. They are those who make no bargain with the Devil. Do not allow yourself to slip away from the salvation you have graciously received through Jesus. Do not ignore such a great salvation (Hebrews 2:3).

Clark Tatum