"God our Savior, ... wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. "
Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 2:3-6
God speaks to us daily in a million ways to get in touch with Him because He created us and He knows us. But man has learned a million ways to avoid meeting Him because the world he knows is submerged in the Evil One.
While the world trembles at the prospect of World War III, the war that has been going on since the beginning of mankind is raging on around us. This is a war for true power, for man was created to reign with God on this earth, to know no sin, sickness, alienation, fear, shame, woe, and death, but he has yielded his power to the devil.
Humanity is like a bug that has turned on its back, there is no way it can get back on its feet without help. It perceives that it has unimagined dimensions within itself because it is created in the image of God, but at the same time, it craves power, kills, butchers, and steals. It is about two eternities fighting for supremacy in the human soul.
But there is a power greater than this conflict, and that is man's free will. We have the power to choose sides. However, once we face the idea of absolute good and God, we will encounter our own utter helplessness. It is just impossible to take His side. Various religions' attempts to approach God are lost somewhere in the mist. It is impossible to know this God for sure, He remains hidden and undefined.
And here comes the really good news. Since humanity could not know him, God decided to reveal Himself, first to the people He called Israel and then to all the earth through his Son Jesus Christ. He wrote down his revelation in a book. The Bible.
"Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life” (Jn 14,6).
If we add divine attributes to these words, it will be clear to us that there can be many truths from a human perspective, but only one Truth, if it is imperishable, and many can only be lies. Everyone has their own path, but there can only be one Path to God, the others lead elsewhere. And Life, if it is absolute, cannot mean passing away and death at the same time.
Therefore, the gospel of God's salvation is very simple:
God saved us through Jesus Christ. Each one of us and all of us together. Of everything. And brought us to Himself. Because He loved us. THROUGH JESUS WE CAN ENTER INTO A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.
He is knocking at the door of your heart.
Whether we accept the invitation or not is entirely up to us. Nobody can force us, and nobody can stop us. The power of eternal life and death, our spiritual destiny, is in our mouths, not in our minds.
“And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord” (2 Cor 4,3-5).
" And now I want to remind you, my friends, of the Good News which I preached to you, which you received, and on which your faith stands firm. That is the gospel, the message that I preached to you. You are saved by the gospel if you hold firmly to it—unless it was for nothing that you believed. I passed on to you what I received, which is of the greatest importance: that Christ died for our sins, as written in the Scriptures; that he was buried and that he was raised to life three days later, as written in the Scriptures; that he appeared to ... many ..." (1 Cor 15,1-6).
Probably anyone who knows Jesus would tell the gospel better than me, most Christians I've met say I'm overcomplicating things, but I'll try, because it's the most important thing I've ever done or will ever do in life:
I invite you to come into contact with God personally.
He is not far from any of us.
The Bible says:
“The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved“ (Rim 10,8-11).
We come in contact with God through our confession of faith.
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him” (Heb 10,6).
This will be the most important prayer that you ever prayed, and maybe it's your first:
"God, I believe that you are good, you love me so much that you sent your Son to die on the cross for me, I believe that on the third day he rose from the grave and defeated death. I believe that in his Name I can draw near to you without fear, God. Therefore, come into my heart, Jesus. I surrender my life to you, God, to become your child as you became my Father. Thank you for the eternal life that you have given me today.Amen."
When you make a conscious decision to give God a place in your heart, expect that He will reveal Himself to you. The veil from our hearts and understanding is lifted when we accept the testimony that God Himself. He can't lie.
To pass from spiritual death, which is what separation from God actually means, to live with Him is as much up to us as it was our own conception.
So let's trust.
With his word, God created the visible and invisible worlds and everything that lives in them (cf. Genesis 1). The word we believe and confess has eternal dimensions, it can save us or destroys us because we are made in His image. According to the words spoken, everyone can become a new creation in Jesus.
“For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you” (1 Pet 1,23-25).
The certainty you will feel in your heart is incomparable to nothing, no riches, and no knowledge that can measure up to knowing that in the same way as our fathers gave us our fleeting lives, our heavenly Father gives eternal life. By the seed that remains forever and is the Word of God. We will not necessarily be aware of the new reality from the moment we accept Jesus, but it will certainly be visible over time and it will begin to change the core of all that we are.
If you would like to deepen your relationship with God and understand your salvation, first start by reading the Bible, and by having a daily conversation with God. Do not come to Him as a stranger or a convicted criminal, but communicate with Him as a son or daughter. Know that God loves you infinitely and that He wants to reveal more of Himself to you every day. Try to find a community that professes the biblical faith and has the presence of God in its meetings.
But above all, don't allow yourself to be enslaved again by various teachings and people who promised you health, freedom, and spiritual experiences for payment, or consider themselves to be mediators between God and people.
The only mediator between God and people is Jesus.
If you want to go on with your relationship with God, but you need some additional direction, or you want to share with me your personal experience, don't hesitate, I will be happy if I hear feedback.