Forgiveness

Do you ever have that one shirt that you just really liked?  It fit well, looked good, felt good, but then it gets stained somehow.  I have a few of those myself.  We're not perfect, we mess up.  We may spill something on it, or we may drop a piece of food on it.  We may get into some grease or something that will permanently stain that garment.  It's a pain to deal with, but, there will come a day when we won't have to deal with it anymore.  When we get to Heaven, we will wear clean robes, made of [...]

I heard about a pole taken a while back, and I may have mentioned this in a recent devotional, that was taken among church goers and/or church members.  There were between 70 and 80 percent of these church goers that still believed that one can go to heaven by doing good deeds.  This response was from Christian church goers.  We cannot earn salvation.  God is Holy and cannot be with sin, and therefore we cannot get into heaven without our sins being forgiven.  Because God is Holy He has to do what is right and see that sin is punished.  So [...]