I’m tired. I don’t have time. I’ll get around to it later. I still have time. I need to get myself together first. I’m scared. I don’t want to have to give up all my fun stuff. God wouldn’t accept me the way I am. I’m not a religious person. My family and friends won’t accept me. I don’t believe in God. I’m a good person already. I’m too weak to live a Christian lifestyle. The Christian life is too hard to live. It’s too hard to get saved. I believe everybody will be saved. I’ll have another chance after death. There’s nothing wrong with living like the world. Being saved is not for everybody. Nobody really knows if they’re saved. It doesn’t matter what I believe as long as I try to live right. I try to live by the 10 commandments. All men are children of God, so I don’t need to do anything extra. God is too good to damn everybody. There are too many things I don’t understand. I don’t believe the Bible is the Word of God. I don’t believe in hell. Maybe when I get older. God will understand.
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I used to make a lot of the above excuses. If I’m not careful, two of them – ‘I’m tired. I’ll get around to it later.’ – will try to creep back in. But I don’t know when ‘later’ is – and neither do you.
So, I have to be prepared now and all the time. I have to make sure my soul is right with God because I don’t know if I even have ‘later’ – and neither do you.
But it is not of my own strength that I serve Jesus Christ because if it was I would fail every time. The Bible tells us that through Christ we can do all things. I believe that, and so I no longer make any of those excuses. And although it’s true – living a Christian lifestyle is sometimes hard; there are two things I must always remember:
1) I am not trying to live it on my own; Jesus is helping me.
2) Anything worth having is not going to come easy.
So, let us:
Stop Making Excuses…
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23)I have stopped making those excuses.
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