Book of Life!

For Wednesday, August 23, 2023:

Romans 6:8 NLT: “Since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him.”

As a young student, when someone in our class misbehaved, the teacher would threaten, “This is going on your permanent record!” We were scared to death! We weren’t told who got to see our permanent record or where it was kept. But the mere thought of our misdeed being recorded for perpetuity was enough to restore order for quite some time!

For believers, the Book of Life is our permanent record. When someone dies, heaven searches the Book of Life for our name and the record of everything we did while we were visiting earth. But when they look under the column marked “sin,” it will be blank white space as if we had never sinned. No corrections, no scratch-outs, no erasure marks – just white space! Any record of our sin was paid for and removed as if it never happened. That’s grace, Jesus’ free gift to us!

Believers are saved by faith in God’s Son Jesus. When we enter heaven’s pearly gates, explain that you’re with that one guy just off God’s right hand. Stick with Jesus and everything will work out!

That’s what Jesus promised; that’s what the Bible says!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship