What is Christianity?
| Christianity is about God reaching out his hand in friendship to mankind. Christians believe that the whole world and everything in it was created by God. God is a personal being, a living God who is three, yet one: Father, Son and Spirit, just as we human beings have body, mind and soul! (see the Trinity).
The Bible says God created people in his image, to love him. Yet every person has rebelled against God and sinned. Yet instead of turning his back on us, God became a man, Jesus, who most scholars believe was born about the year 4 BC and lived among us. He taught a message of love throughout Palestine but public opinion turned against him and he was executed as a young man.
He died because of us - the death that we should have died. He was crucified on a cross, but he rose from the dead, and now calls us to trust him, to love him and to repent of our rebellion. If we do this, then we our relationship with God becomes restored and we will live forever with God.
Many non-Christians may think that being a Christian is about belonging to a particular church or following a certain set of rule. Most Christians however would agree that at its root, being a Christian means to be in a living relationship with Jesus.
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July, 7 - Daily Devotions
July Scripture Portion for Bible Commentary : Psalms 103 - Isaiah 27 including the books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs
Psalms 120--134 are often called songs of ascent or pilgrim songs. Very likely they were designed to be set to music and sung by the pilgrims as they traveled up to the feast at Jerusalem.
Psalm 121 is a Psalm of faith-keeping and protection. Its theme is that God never fails His own. Many times, when preachers conduct funeral services, they read this Psalm. It comforts when mortal lips cannot suffice. One needs only to lift up his eyes and heart to Him. The Lord never slumbers; He never sleeps; and He keeps us safe and secure by day and night, through troubles and trials, heartaches and toils. When we are in submission to Him, He keeps us from evil and preserves our souls unto the day of the return of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Note especially verses 5 and 6 of Psalm 126, "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." These two verses are, in particular, speaking about witnessing and soul-winning for the Lord. God has told us that we are saved for a definite purpose--to reproduce spiritually. The only way we can do this is to plant the seeds of God's Word in the minds and hearts of those about us. When we are broken-hearted for a lost loved one, and we share with them what God has done for us, the promise of Psalm 126:6 is that we shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing our sheaves with us. What a great promise this is!
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