January 7th - Love the truth, reject everything else

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 22:36-40)

To be honest, no one loves like this. All of us have broken the law which makes us sinners as the Bible tells us...we are unrighteous when compared to God.

“…there is none righteous, no not one…all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:10, 23)

But in the future humanity is to be changed...

“…I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.” (Ezekiel 36:26)

The change happens after being resurrected from death and both the just and the unjust will be changed into the image of Jesus.

“...there shall be a resurrection which is impending of both the just and unjust." (Acts 24:15)

"...Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.…just as in Adam ALL die, so also in Christ shall ALL be made alive….Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.” (1 Corinthians 15:20-22, 49)

To save ourselves we would need to be perfec.

"Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect." (Matthew 5:48)

So, our only hope is the grace of God saving us as a gift, not as a reward for good works.

"For by grace are ye saved... it is the gift of God. Not of works..." (Ephesians 2-8-10)

I don't know about you but I am counting on His GRACE!  I have learned to reject any religion that requires you to join their group or do anything to be saved...

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces...You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are...Woe to you, blind guides!...You blind fools!" (Matthew 23:13-23)

Jesus was asked by His disciple Thomas to show him the way to heaven...

"Jesus says to him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father, if not by Me." (John 14:6)