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~ Sincerity Is What Counts ~

Assumption  ~  If you are sincere in your worship of God, regardless of which God or religion, you will end up pleasing God and going to heaven. 

Logic  ~  You don’t apply this kind of thinking to other areas of life.  First Example: If you were sincerely taking a test in school and all your answers were wrong—you wouldn’t pass the test.  Second Example: If you were on a factory line and sincerely assembling your product in the wrong way, the product would fail.  Third Example: If as a baseball player you swing sincerely at a bad pitch and strike out you are still out!  Fourth Example: If as a basketball player you score what you think is the winning basket only to find out you got turned around and scored at the wrong end of the floor—you wouldn’t win the game!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (known as “The Prince of Preachers”) once put it this way: “If you sincerely drink poison, I will kill you!  If you sincerely cut your throat, you will die.  If you sincerely believe a lie, you will suffer the consequences.  You must not only be sincere, but you must be right.”

Scripture  ~  God the Father stated: “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3).  The Son of God said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6b).

Closing Comment  ~  Sincerity of belief does matter.  But what you believe in is even more important!  What is the object of your faith?  Are you doing things God’s way or Satan’s way?  Are you sure?  If, when life is over, you find you were in trusting wrong things the consequences will be enormous.  Maybe, just maybe, it is wise to listen to what your Creator says about eternal matters. 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

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