Luke is the man!

Have you ever felt as though you can do nothing right? Have you ever felt that, no matter how hard you try, you just are not able to do the things that you know you should. If so, rest assured, you are not alone. Being a human really sucks sometimes. Who can we blame though? We are always looking for someone to blame for everything that goes wrong. After all, if we can't place the blame on someone else, the blame has to lie on us! Well, we are to blame for everything. We have screwed up this world so bad that we will never be able to fix it. Sin. Sin is our own doing. Every sin we commit is due to a poor choice we have made. Luckily for us, God knows us better than we know ourselves. Since he knows us so well, he created this thing called grace. Through God's grace, we are saved. We can't do it on our own. For someone like me, that is hard to swallow sometimes. After all, I am a pretty self sufficient guy. HA! Without the grace of God, I would be better off if I had been a microorganism that evolved into an ape and then a human. No hope for eternity. I would just be existing here until I turn back into dust.

Evens God's grace for this world has its limits. Luke 13: 24 talks about the fact that we only have a finite amount of time to make it through the "narrow door." There will come a time that the door is closed and those that don't make it in will be begging to get in, but they will not be allowed inside.

In other words, if you are basing your hopes for eternity on just sliding by and being a good person, you are running quite a risk. In fact, I believe that you are setting yourself up for failure. Luke 13 goes on to say that the "owner of the house" (God) will, at some point, shut the door. He will tell anyone else trying to get in "I do not know you or where you come from."

If you are not giving God all you have, you better get ready to knock at a door that will never again open. We don't know when that day will come, but we know it is coming.