Is it enough?

This morning a headline on AOL news caught my eye as I got online. The headline read: Why are flamingos pink? My curiosity got the best of me so I clicked on the link and I read the article about the most searched out questions on the internet. The question - Why are flamingos pink? ranked #10 Really life shattering pondering, huh?

Being who I am, my searches concern different things. Just this past week two issues came up. I had searched both of them out before and have firm conclusions yet I didn't vocalize them. There were Biblical reasons I did not do it in the setting where I was. But they are on my mind now so here goes.

GOD is honest and GOD is truthful. HE cannot offer something HE is not prepared to give. GOD offers eternal life to whosoever will (any and every one) who will believe. John 3:15,16 By saying whosoever HE intentionally includes all, whether they choose to believe or not.

Throughout the Bible we see people in great struggles and as in the judgments of Revelations and throughout the Bible we hear the phase but they refused (a choice) to turn to GOD. This clearly shows that the judgments were at least in part falling with the intent of turning people away from their evil and to GOD.

We saw how the fierce winds against the ship caused great fear in the crew of the ship taking Jonah away from GOD. We saw how these men chose to believe Jonah’s witness and turned to GOD during this time.

We saw when Jonah, bleached white from being in the acidity of the belly of the fish for 3 days, declared GOD’s judgment to that great and wicked city of Ninevah that all the people, great and small chose to believe his report and humbled themselves and turned to GOD from their evil ways.

Judas could not have believed in JESUS being the Son of GOD for he did not look to HIM for salvation. He was looking to money. But JESUS still reached out to him in love. Even after Judas made a deal with the Jewish leaders to betray JESUS, JESUS offered him a chance to turn to HIM and away from the evil he intended to do. When JESUS declared HE was being betrayed by one of them (the disciples) and that it would be better for that one who to betray him never to have been born at all, JESUS was anonymously but directly warning Judas and offering him another chance to repent. Judas heard the words but refused (a choice) to believe them.

We see GOD over and over offering life to any who would believe and turned to HIM. GOD who is faithful and true cannot offer what HE cannot give. Therefore, I cannot believe in limited atonement… (that is a technical term meaning that JESUS’ blood paid the price only enough to cover the people who will believe.)

JESUS blood on the cross paid for all sin, past, present and future. But it does you no good unless you turn to JESUS.

Have you gone to JESUS?

hugs
Sharon
ps... fyi... flamingos are pink because of what they eat. Pigments in food like crustaceans break down and are deposited into the feathers and beak.