Some Noble Attributes

* Remember and Retain God in your knowledge daily

* Humility, Deference, Integrity, Godly Sincerity, Honesty, Personal Private Purity, Truthfulness

* Thankfulness, Gratitude, Considerate of others, Merciful, Helpful

* Gentleness, Graciousness, Submissive, Sensible, Faithfulness

* Servant, Sympathetic, Kindly Mannered, Forgiving, Affable, Humble Thankfulness

* Diligence, Activity, Industrious, Thrifty, Generosity, Earnest care for others

* Prayerfulness, Watchfulness, Tenacity, Gracious Gratitude

* Acknowledgement of God the Father, Adoration of Jesus Christ, and Ascribing the glory to the Holy Ghost.

* Prayerful Dependence on the Holy Spirit; ask the Holy Spirit to make all things you say and do alive.

* Live to the glory of God so that Christ Jesus Himself may have the preeminence in all things.

* Hearty affection and gratitude towards the Savior for His Substitutionary Sacrifice for your personal sins satisfying the divine justice of God and securing your soul's eternal safety.

* Walking humbly with God, Acknowledging God's favor, Being thankful for all of God's blessings, Depending on God's grace, Behaving with purity, humility, and modesty among men.

Deference - A Forgotten Word

"Deference" is a forgotten word today in America.  Deference is a Christian grace that is rarely taught or preached on in this day and age. Deference is one of the truest marks of real Christianity, and it is found throughout the whole New Testament. The Holy Spirit always wants us to consider other's needs and feelings first. The maturing Christian should always forbear, forgive, and bear the cross to help the weaker brother and the lost person.  Christian always grow downward in humility. *John 3:30* Deference is definitely part of being conformed to image of God's dear Son. We must let the Holy Spirit work to transform our mind, will, and attitude everyday.

Deference – Submission or courteous yielding to the opinion, wishes, or judgment of another; courteous respect. Respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another. Polite and respectful behavior. Showing kindly awareness, courteous concern or regard for another’s feelings, needs, claims, circumstances, etc. Being full of polite concern for the well being of others. To humbly acquiesce and quietly yield to another’s will. Having respectful love or courteous regard to others. Having a desire to promote the prosperity and happiness of another. Being careful not to offend others. Passive assent or agreement without protest or objection. A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; being thoughtful of the needs and feelings of others; respect; willingness to carry out the wishes of others. To avoid being a burden to others; a desire to promote harmony, cooperation, and unity; being thoughtful towards other people. Inclination to yield one’s opinion, and to acquiesce in the sentiments of another in preference to one’s own. Be helpful to the helpless, that's Christlike conduct.

Synonyms:  Respectfulness, condescension, esteem, yielding, submission, courtesy, esteem, politeness, regard, thoughtfulness, honor, benevolent, compassionate, concerned, caring, thoughtful, forbearing, warmhearted, unselfish, friendly, neighborly, sympathetic, tenderhearted, gentle, gracious, understanding, big-hearted

Think honorably of one another, always entertain an honorable esteem of each other; not contending for superiority; always be careful to give to others the preeminence; consider all your brethren as more worthy than yourself; do not let envy affect your mind at seeing another honored and yourself neglected; pass through life with as little noise and vain show as possible; be careful to esteem others better than yourself, be more pleased to hear another praised, than yourself; do not indulge in evil surmises, or groundless jealousies of one another, charity thinketh no evil, speak honorably of each other, discourage the evil practice of whisperings, backbitings, and innuendos; treat each other with honor and respect in common conversation, do not judge other in haste, closely and prayerfully consider other’s situation, should not have affection to one party, and disrespect to another. If at all possible, always defer to the other person’s needs.

In honor preferring one another – Matthew 5:39-42; 20:26-28; Mark 9:35; 10:44; Luke 6:31-35; 14:10; Romans 12:3,10,15,16; 13:7-8; 14:1-3,10,13, 19-22; 15:1-3; I Corinthians 6:7; 7:3; 8:7-13; 9:19,22,23; 10:23-33; 12:22-26; 13:4-5; II Corinthians 6:3; 8:9; 11:29; Galatians 5:13; 6:1-2; Philippians 2:3-4,21; Psalm 101:2; I Samuel 18:14; Ephesians 5:21; I Thessalonians 5:22; Proverbs 14:15; 16:20; I Timothy 5:21; II Timothy 2:24; Hebrews 10:24; I Peter 2:17; 3:7; James 2:8,15-16; I John 3:17-18; Revelation 12:11

That's Your God

Whatever you glory in (get excited about, make sacrifices for, brag and boast about, consumes your thoughts, spend time with, honor and glorify, go to extremes for, look forward to, throw money at, magnify and extol, and enjoy being around), that's your God.  Human nature seeks its own glory.  Give unto the Lord Jesus Christ glory and strength.  Give unto JESUS the glory due unto His name.  Christ Jesus Himself and His Cross is all my glory.

WHERE WILL YE LEAVE YOUR GLORY?  *ISAIAH 10:3*  BUT GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD GLORY, SAVE IN *THE CROSS* OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. *GALATIANS 6:14*

Probing Questions 1

Here are a few probing questions to use when dealing with self-righteous religionists who have deceived themselves into thinking that they can somehow help save themselves from their sins and God's divine justice.  

*Is your faith genuinely rooted in Jesus' Precious Blood?  Romans 3:25

*Are you just in religion, or truly in Christ right now?

*When it comes to your soul being saved, are you trying to help Christ out? On the Cross, Jesus cried, "It is Finished!"

*Whom seek ye?
*What is your security and what significance are you seeking?
*What is it that you cannot live without?
*Are you living in Christ, or just existing in your sins?

*Have you earned the right to go to Heaven?

*How good does a man have to be to satisfy Divine Justice?
*What occupies my thoughts, time and energy?
*Is your soul enjoying the Lord's smile?

*Are you allergic to sin?

*Does God owe you His Mercy?

*Does your good behavior play any part in your Salvation?

*Do you hate your sins? Are you tired of your self and sins yet?  

*Do your sins ever sicken you?

*Can your works help cancel your guilt?

*Does God owe you His Salvation?

*What can I do today to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ with my body, mind and life?

*What is Imputation?

*Do you deserve anything but Hell?

*What/Who is your righteousness?

*How can ye believe which receive honor one of another?

*Do you have instantaneous, irreversible, free Eternal Life?

*Do you have anything to boast of?

*What do you glory in the most?

*Have you ever been saved from the love of sin?

*What sin can I avoid today for Jesus' sake?

*Do you have any trust in your own righteousness?

* Can you say anything good about yourself?

* Is there one good thing about you?

* Are you not imperfect in your very best doings?

* Do you deserve to be saved?

* Have you ever been burdened under a sense of your sins?

* Are you in Christ Jesus, or in your sins?

* Is your best good enough to satisfy God's divine justice?

* Who sets your moral guidelines and standards?

* How can I glorify God in all this?

* Dost thou not fear God?

* What are you going to believe, human imagination or Divine Revelation?

* Have you been born twice?

* What do you rely on for significance?

* Is there a way out of my sins?  *John 14:6*

* Has the Gospel changed your behavior and character?

* Who shall add anything to what Christ has FINISHED?

* Can you in any way ever merit eternal life?  If you think you can, your soul is surely lost.

* How is that you have nothing to help you die?

* Are you trying to be your own savior?

* Do you actually have the Spirit of God within you now?

* Were you ever made to feel that there was no merit in anything that you ever did?

* What is your confidence for eternal life?

* Dost thou believe on the Son of God? *John 9:35*

* Do you have an inner conflict with your sins?
* Now on whom dost thou trust?

* Do you glory only in the Cross?

* Have you confided your soul's everlasting destiny into Christ's dear hands?

* Have you abandoned your self-righteousness, and rested in Jesus only? *Matthew 11:28*

* Have you taken Jesus Christ, God Incarnate, to be your soul's only confidence?

* Is there anything in you that can help save you?

* Who is your faith resting in now?

* What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

* Does your Salvation involve any of your doings?

* Are you a lost sinner in need of the Savior?

* Is a Savior necessary in your case? 

* Will you go with Jesus barefoot over the gravel of persecution, or do you like a silver slipper religion? 

* Have you any sins that you cannot get rid of on you own?

* Are you willing to be saved by Jesus Christ on His terms?

* Are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?

* Will any of your doings help to atone for your sins, or help you to be accepted before God?

* Does a man have to do anything to help save himself?

* Is your righteousness one which you have attained yourself, or has the Righteousness of Christ been imputed to you freely by the Holy Ghost?

* Have you set up your own righteousness in opposition to Christ's Righteousness?

 * Are you depending upon anything beside Jesus Christ and Him crucified?

 * Why won't you simply trust Someone who loved you to death?

 * What are you counting on to keep you out of Hell?

 * Is there not sufficient merit in the Savior's bloody death to make Atonement for all your sins?

 * Do you feel that you deserve God's divine mercy?

 * How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Jesus Christ?

 * Are you only living for yourself, or some temporary end and purpose?

 * Will the object of your life die with your dying, and be buried in your grave?

 * Have you taken the God who is your Maker and Savior to be the great object of your life?

 * Are you a believer and truster in Jesus Christ, the living God?

 * Do you have any reliance other than Jesus' Precious Blood?

 * Have you a God to go to?

 * How shall we escape, if we neglect SO Great Salvation?

 * Can a child of God ever become a child of the devil again?

 * Is there anything within you upon which you can depend?

 * Are you allergic to Sin?

 * Are you worthy of eternal life?

 * Will you have Christ or not?

 * Have you done sufficient works to merit salvation?

 * What shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospel of God?

 * Why would you ever want to add anything of your own to what Christ has already completed?

 * Are you trying to put a few of your own merits together, a few odds and ends, a few fig leaves and filthy rags of your own righteousness to help Christ out?

 * Are you bringing some of your own works to help eke out Christ's work?

 * Do you hope to come to Christ one of these days when you make yourself better?

 * Are going to make yourself better, and then let Christ do the rest of the work?

 * Are you trying to do something to make a righteousness of your own?

 * Are you happy with yourself? Are you perfect?

 * Do you rejoice over repenting sinners? Do you feel intense sympathy for lost sinners? Do you dread lest they should be lost? Do you pray that they may be saved? Do you seek by your own personal testimony and entreaty to bring them to the Savior, Jesus Christ?

 * Have you taken JEHOVAH JESUS to be your God?

 * Are you dead set on dying in your sins?

 * Do you claim to have been absolutely perfect before your Maker from your childhood till now?

 * Is your righteousness one which you have worked out for yourself, or has the Righteousness of Christ been freely imputed to your soul?

 * Do you look for Salvation by self, or by Christ, or by both?

 * Are you too good to be saved?

 * Is there anything in you that you can trust to?

 * What do you enjoy most when no one is watching?

 * Have you ever been a child of wrath, a child of disobedience, a child of Satan?

 * Does your soul's eternal safety depend upon yourself at all?

 * Do you have any merits of your own which can recommend you to God?

* Have you ever been really upset over your sins?

* How good does a man have to be to satisfy divine justice? *I Peter 2:22; II Cor 5:21; I John 3:5*

* What have you done with Jesus which is called Christ?

* Does God owe you His mercy?

* What do you think of most throughout the day?

* What produces your strongest emotions?

* What makes you tick within?

* Have you ever come to the end of yourself?

* Do you hate your sins? Do you swim against the stream of your evil tendencies?

*Is your love for some sin keeping you from receiving Christ Jesus as your personal Savior?

* Is all your hope fixed on what Jesus did for sinners on Calvary's tree?

* Do you think any of your religious works can help cancel your guilt?

* Christ Jesus has done so much for you; what have you ever done for Him?

* Do you think that anything you have is your own?

* What do you throw money at?

* What does your mind feed on?

* How is your soul prospering?

* Do you know any sinner who Jesus Christ died for?

* What are the ruling habits of your life?

* Have you a longing in your heart to be the means of bringing others to Christ?

* Have you talked about Jesus Christ today? Have you spoken to anybody about their soul today?

* Who are you trying to please?

* Does your sin sicken you?

* Have you ever thought how greatly you have sinned against Jesus?

* What is your life's master passion?

* What bad habits do you struggle with most?

* What consumes your thoughts?

* Does God owe you His salvation?

* Will your future efforts help blot out your sins?

* What is your righteousness?

* Have you been to Jesus to have your sins freely, instantly, eternally forgiven?

* Do you have anything of your own to boast of?

* Do you have any trust in your own righteousness?

* Can I tell you how much Jesus loves me?

* Will you be able to claim any credit for your salvation?

* Are you resting at all on what you are?

* Can you earn God's divine mercy?

* Does God know you're saved?

* Who am I, what does living really mean, what is my destiny?

* Is there any good work of your own that you are relying upon?

* Do you have any claim upon God's mercy?

* Where is your confidence?

* Do you deserve God's love and mercy?

* How good do you have to be to get to Heaven? Answer: No good.

* Do you know your Best Friend?

* Are sins forgiven freely?

* How good does a man have to be to satisfy God's divine justice? Answer: Perfect

* Where are your sins right now, on Christ, or on your soul?

* Are you a self-saved man?

* Do you have two Saviors?

* Are you half-saved?

* Do you deserve God's forgiveness?

* What are the good works that can merit Heaven and ensure eternal life?

* Are you willing to be saved on God's free terms?

* Have you been clean delivered from all confidence in yourself?

* Are you trusting solely and entirely in the Blood and Righteousness of God's crucified and risen Son?

* Is there some private sin you don't want to give up?

* Have you passed from death to life?

* Was the Savior necessary in your case?

* Have you any sins from which you cannot escape of yourself?

* Have you ever felt the evil and guilt of your sins?

* Are you willing to be saved by Jesus Christ alone?

* Have you accepted the Christ, the whole Christ, the Man Christ, the God Christ, Immanuel, God with us?

* Is Jesus' atoning blood all your trust?

* Have you felt the burden of your sin? Have you ever taken that burden to the Cross by faith and given it over to Jesus Christ Himself?

* Are you confiding your soul's eternal interest with Christ Jesus alone?

* Does your religion have anything to do with your salvation?

* At your very best, do you have anything to boast of?

* Do you believe in the Crucified Creator God?

* Where do people go when they die? What about you? Why? Living life without Christ is only a foretaste of hell. Living life with Christ is only a foretaste of heaven.

* If you could ask God one thing, what would it be?

* Should God punish murderers? If so, how should he punish them?

* What do you think a person has to do to go to Heaven or Hell?

* Do you consider yourself to be a ‘good, moral’ person?

* How many of the Ten Commandments can you name? Have you always kept them in thought, word and deed?

* Where would you go if you died tonight? Why?

* Do you believe there is such a place as Hell? Who goes there? Why?

* If there was a way to avoid damnation, would you be interested?

* Do you think the Bible’s claim, that someone can know that they have everlasting life, is true?

* Who do you think Jesus was? The Bible says that Jesus was God manifest in the flesh who lived, bled and died to atone for human sin.

* What is stopping you from asking the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins and being converted right now?

* Does God ever get angry at anyone?

* Do you think you’ll make it to heaven? Are you a good enough person to miss the Judgment?

* Have you told a lie? Have you ever stolen something? Have you ever taken God’s name in vain? Have you ever looked at a woman with lust?

* You have to admit you have a disease, before you seek a cure. Are you absolutely morally Perfect? Christ Jesus was and is, and you're not.

* You will be responsible for all your thoughts and actions on the Day of Judgment. Every idle word, all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire, shall not inherit kingdom of God Are you hoping your parachute is packed correctly? You do that before you take off. It is not God’s will for you to go to Hell.

* When is the last time you read your Bible?

* What is the sin that will take more people to hell than any other sin? Idolatry (making a god to suit yourself, that you're happy with, that you're comfortable with in your sins, Hitler did that. Your god will fit your morals. 

* Do you see your need of God’s forgiveness?

* What do you think good is? Good is this: absolute moral perfection in thought, word, and deed.

* Are you perfect or a sinner? Have you ever deliberately done wrong? Has there ever been a moment when you stood face to face with right and wrong, and chose wrong? Listen to your conscience.

* Have you earned the right to go to heaven?

* What do you believe about God? Do you believe there is an after life? Do you ever think about it?

* Have you ever known the truth about something, and intentionally told a lie or misled someone (deceit)?

* Have you ever known purity and chose the impure? The Lord Jesus Christ lived a perfect life from the cradle till His death on the Cross, have you? If not, then you need His Righteousness. (Christ Jesus was without blemish and without spot, there was no fault found in Him, He knew no sin, He did no sin, in Him was no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth, He was holy and undefiled, and He had innocent blood).

* Have you ever understood straightness and gave in to crookedness?

* Do you feel your need of pardon and sense your guilt and need of the forgiveness of sins?

* Have you ever broken the Ten Commandments? If you have offended the Law in one point, you are guilty of all.

* What do you think about what Jesus said in the Bible?

* Where will you be 100 years from now out in Eternity?

* Do you think man and woman came from apes or did God create them in His image in the Garden of Eden?

Have you ever repented towards God and trusted to Jesus Christ?

* Do you ever think about death? Do you ever fear death?

* Are you a God-fearing person, do you try to keep the Ten Commandments?

* How much money would I have to take out of your wallet to be a thief? How many times would I have to lie to you to become a liar?

* How long do you want to live? Do you think you could die today?

* How can a sinner obtain eternal life?

* Will you believe anything as long as it not in the Bible?

* Have you loved God above all else – with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30)? Yes? The Bible says, ‘there is none that seeketh after God.” Romans 3:11 Nobody (except Jesus Christ) has kept the first of the Ten Commandments. One of you is lying-either you or God-and the Bible says that it is impossible for God to lie” (Hebrews 6:18; Titus 1:2)

Where Christ Is

Where Christ Is loved, sin is hated;
Where Christ is sweet, sin is nauseating;
Where Christ is precious, sin is heinous;
Where Christ is lifted up, sin is detested;
Where Christ is enjoyed, sin is renounced;
Where Christ is dear, sin is hideous;
Where Christ is treasured, self is abased;
Where Christ is remembered, sin is revolting;
Where Christ is King, self is nothing.
Where Christ is Great, sin is disgusting;
Where Christ is esteemed, sin is loathsome;
Where Christ is received, sin is erased;
Where Christ is followed, self is denied;
Where Christ is Captain, sin is conquered;
Where Christ is needed, sin is felt;
Where Christ is regarded, self is disdained;
Where Christ is esteemed, sin is sickening;
Where Christ is cherished, sin is shocking;
Where Christ is wonderful, sin is repulsive;
Where Christ is highly prized, self is highly detested;
Where Christ is adored, sin is abhorred;
Where Christ is Savior, sin is pardoned;
Where Christ is exalted, pride is put down;
Where Christ is feared, sin is avoided;
Where Christ is reigning, sin is put down;
Where Christ is sought, sin is forsaken;
Where Christ is Peace, sin is disturbing;
Where Christ is appreciated, sin is refused;
Where Christ is All in All; sin is bitter;
Where Christ is lovely, sin is ugly;
Where Christ is preeminent, sin is insidious;
Where Christ is worshipped, sin is forsaken; and
Where Christ Is present, sin is gone.

Have you received Christ Jesus Himself into your heart by faith in His shed blood? *John 1:12*  Right after you receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Sin-Bearer, you will begin to love God and to hate your sins.  When you love someone, you won't misrepresent, mistreat or misjudge them.  When you love someone, you want to spend time with them, you like to spend money on them, you like to think about them, and can't wait to talk to them again.  If you love someone, you stay away from their enemies, and you rejoice in their victories.  Do you love God?

Trust now in the substitutionary, atoning sacrifice of Christ Jesus Himself; trust Him to take your sins away, and blot them out forever with His own Blood.  O God, I am heartily sorry my sins and rejection of Christ which have offended You; I detest all my sins most of all because they offend You. O God, who are all Good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Your grace, to confess my sins and forsake them, and to love you sincerely for Christ's sake.  Christ died for the ungodly; the Just for the unjust; the Innocent for the guilty; the Worthy for the unworthy; the Sinless for the sinful; the Best for the worst.

Trust God Incarnate who was crucified for your sins and rose from the dead the third day to save your soul from the love of sin and the wrath of God.  Trust Christ's Precious Blood entirely, and you are freely forgiven this very instant. Part with your sins and self-righteousness; and trust Jesus' Blood Atonement now (Romans 5:8-9); Receive Christ Himself into your heart by faith (John 1:12; James 1:21; Romans 5:11; Ephesians 2:8-9).

Lessons from the Limpet

Saving Faith is simply clinging to Christ Jesus Himself for safety from the wrath to come on sin:  True Faith is helpless dependence on the bleeding Savior for His free, eternal Salvation.

Whenever you are down by the seaside, most of the time you will see limpets (mollusks) sticking to a rock or a pier. You can walk up softly to the rock and with a stick strike the limpet quickly, and off he will come. But if you try to hit the next limpet the same way, you have given him warning; he heard the blow with which you struck his neighbor, and he will cling with all his might to the rock. You will never get him off the rock without destroying him. You may strike and strike him again, but you will break the rock before you get him off.  Jesus is my Rock in this weary land, I will stick with Him, no matter what. *Deuteronomy 32:4; I Samuel 2:2; Luke 6:48; I Corinthians 10:4; I Peter 2:8*

The limpet does not know much, but he knows how to cling. He cannot tell you much about what he is clinging to.  He is not acquainted with the geological formation of the rock, but he clings to it with all he has. Human nature clings to worldly filth and self-righteousness; but the divine nature clings to Christ's Purity and Righteousness. Nothing but the Atoning Sacrifice of the Lamb of God will appease divine vengeance - this is called Propitiation. *I John 2:2* The guilty, needy sinner has found out that he needs to cling to Someone besides himself who has a true Righteousness. That is the troubled sinner's little bit of knowledge, and he uses that knowledge by clinging to the Rock of His Salvation, Christ Jesus, God manifest in the flesh.  It is the limpet’s life to cling, and it is our life to cling to the Way, the Truth, and the Life.  *John 14:6*

Have no more faith than this - Just know enough to cling to Jesus with all your heart and soul, and this will suffice. Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Jesus Christ is the sinner's Substitute and Savior, He is strong and mighty, He is a Great Rock in a weary land; cleave to Him for dear life, and He will save your defenseless soul immediately.  Cling to Jesus even now; Hold fast to the Crucified Incarnate God; never let Him go; for that is real Faith. Believe in His Precious Blood, trust to His Atoning Sacrifice, depend on His Forgiving Blood, cling to His Soul-Saving Blood alway. Sinners who trust in the Blood are saved, those who don't are lost. As a drowning man would cling to a plank cast into the water to save him, even so trust in nothing but the Blood of the Incarnate God to hold you up in time and Eternity.

The limpet by the sea-shore can do little, but he can cling, and very firmly too. That is the one simple thing you can do too, poor sinner.  May the Holy Spirit lead you to cling to the Cross (Christ's Blood Atonement) at once.  Only Jesus' Blood can rescue you from God's divine justice. Jesus answered all the demands of divine justice with His obedience, sufferings, and blood.

God help you at this moment to cling to Christ, and if you do, you are saved, yes, saved at once. Cling to Christ, and you shall find free, rich Mercy. Jesus didn't come to save the righteous, moral, or good, for there are none. Jesus died for sinners, and especially you. Come on now to Jesus, and He will give your soul the Rest you need. Are you truly clinging to Christ? Is He your only Hope of Heaven? If so, then He is yours for sure. Just stick to the old truth that Christ died for sinners, and that He is your Substitute here in time and right on out into Eternity, just stick to Him like the limpet to the rock.

Is your very soul actually knit to the person of Jesus Christ by Faith in His Blood? When the tide of carnal security ebbs out in your life, and you begin to sense your sinfulness, danger, hopelessness and start to dread death, if you have any sense, you will cling to Christ Jesus for your soul's safety? Is Jesus' Atoning Sacrifice all your trust and confidence? Do you rest only on His Precious Blood? If you trust to anything else whatsoever, you will perish in your sins. If you are clinging to Christ with all your heart, then Christ is yours. Turn all your confidence away from yourself, and trust only to Jesus. Cease to have any reliance in anything you've ever done, or ever hope to do. Personally cleave to the living Savior. Cling closely to Jesus under temptation and during trials.

He that believeth in Jesus hath everlasting life: there is where I cling, like the helpless limpet to the rock. Jesus said, “Him that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out.” If Jesus is the only hope that you have, and you simply cling to Him as the limpet clings to a rock, then all will be well with your soul forever. *Acts 11:23; Romans 12:9*  Cling to Jesus (God manifest in the flesh); cleave to His Blood and Righteousness alone. It is your life to do it. Trust to the Innocent Substitute who bled for your sins. Clinging to the Cross kills your love for sins.

When the limpet lives and feeds on a rock for a long time, he slowly begins to blend in and look exactly like the rock whereupon he lives. Stick to the Bible closely (Psalm 119:31). This is also what happens to the wise Christian who continually feeds and clings to the blessed Rock of Salvation. *II Samuel 22:2-3,47; Deut 4:4; Psalm 18:2; Psalm 62:2,6*

Savior, more than life to me,
I am clinging, clinging, close to Thee;
Let Thy precious blood applied,
Keep me ever, ever near Thy side.

Every day, every hour,
Let me feel Thy cleansing power;
May Thy tender love to me
Bind me closer, closer, Lord to Thee.

Through this changing world below,
Lead me gently, gently as I go;
Trusting Thee, I cannot stray,
I can never, never lose my way.

Let me love Thee more and more,
Till this fleeting, fleeting life is o’er;
Till my soul is lost in love,
In a brighter, brighter world above.

-Ms. Fanny Crosby

The Only True Love

The only true love this world has ever seen happened on a hill called Calvary just outside Jerusalem 2000 years ago, when the Son of God was crucified for the sins of the whole world. *I John 2:2* Christ Jesus' bleeding love is true, pure and everlasting.  When Jesus laid down His sinless life for your sake, He loved you with an everlasting love.  Jesus' love for sinners was selfless and sinless. The Prince of Peace came into this world to rescue lost sinners from the wrath to come on human sin.  If you are looking for someone that loved you in spite of your sins, even when you were His worst enemy, Jesus loved your guilty soul like that.  When Jesus was bleeding and dying on Calvary's Cross, He moved heaven and earth to save your soul - the sky went pitch black with darkness and the rocks were rent the day He died to pay the price for your transgressions against God's Law.  If you are looking for God's Love, you can only find it at the Cross where the Lamb of God died in agony and blood for His enemies.  Then said Jesus, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

Herein is Love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the Propitiation for our sins.  Jesus loved me, and gave Himself for me.  Jesus didn't hold anything back when He died for all my sins suffering the wrath of God on my behalf.  Jesus' love is unconditional and eternal.  Jesus gave this world His heart, but sinful man pierced His heart with a spear on the Cross.  If you need compassion, tenderness, mercy and free forgiveness, Jesus has that for you today.  Cast all your cares upon Him, for He careth for you.

If you need someone who understands what you are going through in this life, Jesus can do that; for He lived here on Earth for 33 years as a Jewish man and suffered shame, loneliness, heartache, loss, cruelty, mocking, betrayal, and persecution.  You don't have to look very far, if you are looking for a Friend - simply look to the Cross today.  If you think you can help save yourself through your religion or human goodness, you are as lost as the day is long.  Open your eyes and heart now, please give Jesus a chance, stop avoiding Him, seek Him today through faith in His precious blood.  Jesus doesn't love sinners just now and then, His love is divine, His love is forever and ever, an everlasting love.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through JESUS.  Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us.  We love JESUS, because He first loved us.  But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved). For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in JESUS should not perish, but have everlasting life.  When Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end.  As the Father hath loved Me, so have I loved you: continue ye in My love.  Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.  I will love you freely.  Jesus loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood.