Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.= Rudyard Kipling, 1865 - 1936

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. - Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha), 563 - 483 BC

We can never attach too much importance to the atoning death of Christ. It is the leading fact in the word of God, on which the eyes of our soul ought to be ever fixed. Without the shedding of his blood, there is no remission of sin. It is the cardinal truth on which the whole system of Christianity hinges. Without it the Gospel is an arch without a key-stone, a fair building without a foundation, a solar system without a sun... This, after all, is the master-truth of Scripture, that “Christ died for our sins.” To this let us daily return. On this let us daily feed our souls. Some, like the Greeks of old, may sneer at the doctrine, and call it “foolishness.” But let us never be ashamed to say with Paul, “Be it far from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Gal. 6:14.)- J.C. Ryle

Commentary, Matthew 26.

Let no man ever persuade you that any religion deserves to be called the Gospel, in which repentance toward God has not a most prominent place. That is no Gospel in which repentance is not a principal thing. It is the Gospel of man - not of God. It comes from earth - not from heaven. It is not the Gospel at all - it is rank antinomianism and nothing else. So long as you hug your sins, and cleave to your sins, and will have your sins - your sins are not forgiven.

So long as you do not repent of sin, the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is no Gospel to your soul. Christ is a Savior from sin - not a Savior for man in sin. If a man will have his sins, the day will come when that merciful Savior will say to him, "Depart from Me, you worker of iniquity! Depart into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." (Matt. 25:41. ~ J.C. Ryle, Old Paths, “Repentance”, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1999], 415, 416.

I don't ask God to bless what I do. I pray He will help me

to do what He blesses.. Robert Pierce (1914-1978), founder and president, World Vision