Yesterday I talked to you about how to forgive and be happier. And you discovered there’s a right way to do it. It’s God’s way. It’s the way He forgives you and me and anyone who asks Him to. God is the one true, living, loving, and forgiving father of us all. He’s got riches waiting for you, if you love Him and want to be with Him. But His riches aren’t like the money and cars and computers you see here on earth. God’s riches are forever life and forever love. And when you choose to love and trust Jesus, you begin saving treasures in Heaven. Because He gives you the riches of Grace. He gives you forgiveness. He redeems you. Do you know what that means?
It means you can be rich.
And I mean the redeemed kind of rich. To be redeemed means that God takes your bad stuff and changes it into good stuff. How does He do it?
Simple…Jesus.
When you do bad stuff, you probably know you’re gonna be punished. Right? Well, the longer you live, the worse stuff you can do. And if there was never any punishment for it, everybody would do worse and worse stuff until the whole world would be a horrible place to live. Guess what? That happened a long time ago, and God saw that He needed to make a way for us to be better. So He came to earth as Jesus and grew up to be a perfect man. Then, as a man, He took the punishment you and I were supposed to get. Can you imagine if your friend took your spanking for you? Or if your friend took all the punishments you were supposed to get?
That would be a pretty awesome friend, wouldn’t it?!
That’s the kind of friend Jesus is for you. And because He took all the punishments for every one of us, He made a Way for us to live forever. We don’t have to pay for it ourselves. That’s called Grace. And the riches of Grace last forever. Aren’t you glad about that? Does it make you wanna stand up and sing? I hope so. Here’s a rhyme to help you remember…
You can have the riches of Grace
Living in a beautiful place.
Living with God above in His forever love
Shining like gold on your face.
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