Throughout life we have to meet many qualifications to be successful. We come into this world and initially no one has any expectations of us. We eat and sleep at our own discretion and everyone around us tends to our needs. This stage of life doesn’t really last so very long. Within a short amount of time we have to learn to share, obey, do chores, and fit it with our family setting.
In order to qualify for kindergarten one must be a certain age and be able to meet certain expectations. This is only the beginning of meeting qualifications in life.
As life progresses to a different level we finish high school, go to college, get married, get established in a career, and have a family. There are certain qualifications required to do all of these things successfully.
As one moves on through life there is retirement and again qualifications are to be met. Do we have enough money saved to retire? Do we qualify for Social Security, a pension, do we meet the age requirement for Medicare? Life is full of things that to be successful we must qualify.
One of the biggest things we should consider is this question: what must be done to qualify us for eternity. Once we have lived out our years on earth and we die what will happen then? My friend, this qualification is the very most important one to meet, as it is the matter of eternal life or eternal death.
Before the creation of the world or one living soul, God the creator knew that man would not be able to meet the qualifications of a holy God. God is holy and cannot abide where there is sin and we are a people who are born in sin thereby unqualified and spiritually dead. But, because of his great love for us God provided the means through which He would qualify us for eternal life, that means was through his Son, Jesus Christ. We must however place our trust and faith in him to meet the standard.
Christ has done the work needed to give us eternal life. He died upon a Roman cross and shed his blood as the perfect and permanent sacrifice. We read in the Bible that without the shedding of blood there is no remission for sin. Christ was the only acceptable sacrifice as he was holy and without sin. One that was sinful could not pay the price.
You may ask then, how can one have their sins forgiven and meet the qualifications for having eternal life. This is what you must do: Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ that He is the substitute taking your sin upon himself when he died on the cross. This is how you become qualified to share in the kingdom of light. God gives you his righteousness in exchange for your sin.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 14:6 Jesus answered “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Colossians 1:12-13 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
My question is this: Are you qualified to enter the kingdom of light? Have you applied Christ’s payment of sin to the debt you have acquired? Please consider today taking this step, asking Christ to forgive your sins because of Jesus' payment on the cross and enter into a personal relationship with God as your Father, who qualifies you for the kingdom of His dear son.
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