Seperti Yesus

Seperti Yesus (Filipi 2:2-5)

Kristen atau christian artinya pengikut Kristus atau seperti Kristus.  Seseorang yang mengaku dirinya kristen diharapkan dapat mencerminkan Kristus dalam segala laku hidupnya.

Apa ciri khas Kristus?

1. Dia mendahulukan Allah

Yesus hidup di dunia untuk menyampaikan firman Allah dan melaksanakan kehendak Allah. 

2. Dia menjauhkan kepentingan pribadi

Yesus tidak mencari nama, sebaliknya Dia begitu rendah hati dan meminta agar orang yang telah disembuhkan oleh-Nya tidak menyebarkan berita tentang itu.  Dia hanya ingin nama Allah dipermuliakan.  Dia tidak mengutamakan kepentingan pribadi.

3. Dia memperhatikan orang lain

Yesus datang untuk melayani.  Dia selalu mempedulikan orang lain tanpa memandang status orang itu.  Sifat welas asihnya membuat Dia mengetahui dengan pasti keperluan orang lain.

4. Dia setia

Betapa pun sulitnya kehidupan yang harus dijalani Yesus, Dia tetap setia.  Sebagai manusia, Yesus memang pernah mengalami kegundahan, namun kemudian Dia menyadari misi utama-Nya dan tetap setia hingga mati di kayu salib.

5. Dia kudus

Yesus hidup secara alami dan jauh dari kemunafikan.  Dia kudus dan menjaga kekudusan-Nya dengan benar.  Dia lemah lembut dalam mengajar, tetapi keras dalam menegor.  Namun semua dilakukan dalam batas kewajaran dan tidak melanggar kesusilaan ataupun norma yang berlaku.  Tidak seorang pun baik dari Makhamah Agama, Pilatus, maupun Herodes, yang bisa menemukan kesalahan pada diri-Nya.

Sudah layakah kita mengaku diri kita kristen?  Seberapa jauhkah kita sudah mencerminkan Kristus dalam diri kita?

Salam kasih, Deny S Pamudji

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Tabur Tuai

Tabur Tuai (2 Korintus 9:4-12)

Tabur tuai merupakan kaidah yang dikenal secara umum.  Ada yang bilang itu hukum karma.  Siapa yang berbuat baik akan mendapat yang baik.  Siapa yang berbuat jahat akan mendapat celaka.  Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai. Siapa yang ingin makan dadar harus memecahkan telor.  Apa yang kamu tabur itulah yang akan kamu tuai.  Dan masih banyak lagi ungkapan yang intinya sama yakni tabur tuai.

Mengapa Allah menginginkan kita menabur?  Karena dengan menabur, kita membuat yang kurang menjadi cukup sehingga akan timbul ucapan syukur kepada Allah.

Dalam menabur, hal yang paling penting ialah keikhlasan.  Allah ingin kita melakukan sesuatu dengan ikhlas, artinya tidak ada keberatan di dalam hati.  Kita lakukan itu dengan sepenuh hati. Bagaimana bisa kita lakukan itu?  Kita perlu kemurahan hati.  Jika hati kita penuh kemurahan, maka kita dapat melakukan apa saja tanpa rasa keberatan.

Kemurahan hati sebenarnya tidak terlalu sulit jika seseorang sudah benar2 menyelami betapa besarnya Kasih Allah pada dirinya.  Seseorang yang mengetahui bagaimana seharusnya dia berada kelak tanpa Kasih Allah, akan dapat menghargai penebusan Yesus dan berakibat dia akan memikirkan bukan hanya dirinya sendiri tetapi juga orang lain. 

Tidaklah seseorang menuai jika tidak menabur.  Hasil tuaian tergantung apa yang ditabur.  Menabur harus dengan kemurahan hati.  Kemurahan hati hanya ada pada orang yang telah mengalami penebusan dan menghargai penebusan itu.

Sudahkah Anda mengalami penebusan?  Tidak inginkah Anda menuai banyak kelak?

Salam kasih, Deny S Pamudji

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Orang Kaya

Orang Kaya (1 Timotius 6:17-19)

Apakah ajaran kristen menentang orang kaya karena ada perkataan “Lebih mudah seekor unta memasuki lobang jarum daripada seorang kaya masuk sorga”?

Kekristenan tidak pernah menentang orang kaya atau seseorang berusaha menjadi kaya.  Yang ditentang ialah jika orang tersebut bersandar pada kekayaannya atau berupaya dengan segala daya (termasuk melanggar hukum) untuk menjadi kaya.

Karena kekayaan mudah sekali membuat seseorang menjadi tinggi hati (sombong) sehingga segala sesuatu diukur dengan uang.  Dia merasa semuanya bisa dibeli dengan uang, hingga pada saatnya tiba, dia baru mengerti bahwa uang bukan segalanya.  Uang tidak bisa membeli berkat Tuhan berupa kesehatan, umur panjang, suka cita, dlsb.  Uang hanya terbatas sebagai alat tukar yang sebenarnya tidak mempunyai kekuasaan apa2, kecuali orang2 tersebut menyerahkan/menjual dirinya hanya karena uang seperti Yudas Iskariot yang mengkhianati Yesus hanya karena beberapa keping uang.

Jika kita sekarang kaya, maka firman Tuhan mengatakan agar kita bisa menggunakan kekayaan itu dengan sebaik-baiknya.  Kita harus bisa membagi kebahagiaan untuk orang lain.  Jika tetangga kita ada yang kurang sesuatu, dengan kelebihan yang kita miliki, kita bantu dia tanpa perlu memberitahukan orang lain ataupun diliput media massa agar terkenal.  Singkat kata kita harus menggunakan kekayaan yang kita miliki bukan hanya untuk kepentingan kita sendiri.

Lalu bagaimana dengan orang yang ingin menjadi kaya?  Firman Tuhan mengatakan agar mereka berhati-hati jangan sampai jatuh dalam pencobaan, jerat, dan berbagai nafsu yang hampa dan mencelakakan.  Jangan karena ingin menjadi kaya, semua jalan dihalalkan.  Bahkan ada yang sampai harus melakukan tapa ataupun melakukan sesembahan kepada dewa2 ataupun roh2 tertentu.  Firman Tuhan juga mengatakan sebagaimana kita masuk ke dunia dengan tidak membawa apa2, maka begitu pun kita  tidak akan membawa apa2 ketika keluar.  Asal ada makanan dan pakaian, cukuplah.

Berbahagialah orang yang bisa mensyukuri semua pemberian Tuhan dan bergantung sepenuhnya pada kasih setia-Nya.  Sebab Tuhan selalu mempedulikan setiap orang yang percaya pada-Nya dan bersandar pada-Nya. Haleluya.

Salam kasih, Deny S Pamudji

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Busy Life

NO ROOM IN THE BANK

Is your life full and busy? If you're like me, maybe it is too busy.
Sometimes I fill my life so full doing things I think I should do, I don't
have time for the things I want to do, even if some of those things are
important. It seems that I have a thousand deadlines to meet, and too
often I can't find enough time to write, I skip my exercise routine, or I
neglect uninterrupted time spent solitude on meditation.

But it helps to remember a story about a young girl and her piggy bank. The little girl's father had just given her a silver dollar to put into her bank. She excitedly ran off to her room to “deposit” the coin. However, within a few minutes she returned and handed the silver coin back to her father.

“Daddy,” she said sadly, “Here's your dollar back. I can't get it into my bank.”

“Why not?” her concerned father asked.

“It's too full,” she said, obviously disappointed.

Her father accompanied her back to her room and sure enough her piggy bank was too full to accept even one more coin. It was stuffed with pennies.

Is your life ever like that bank? So full of errands, obligations and
activities of no lasting value that there simply is no room left for what
is truly important - the silver dollars?

Author Grenville Kleiser once said, “To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.”

Have you made room for a few large coins in your bank; for something you believe to be worthwhile? If not, you may have to take out a few pennies, but I suspect you will never know they are gone.

By Steve Goodier

Read and meditate on these scriptures:

Jeremiah 29:11-14 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon Me, and ye shall go and pray unto Me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD...”

Isaiah 26:3-4 “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.”

Philippians 4:8-9 “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.”

All of these scriptures can be found in the King James Version Bible.

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Bad Weather, Good Hearts

BAD WEATHER AND GOOD HEARTS

It is amazing how even the worst times can be used by our loving God to bring out the best in us. I saw ample evidence of this recently when a fast moving Winter storm dumped an incredible two and a half feet of snow here. Cars were buried, businesses and schools were closed, roads were impassible, people were stranded, and tree limbs were snapped taking down power lines with them. A state of emergency was declared and it looked like the bad weather had beaten us all down forever. In the mist of all this misery though, the best in everyone emerged.

We slowly came out of our houses, grabbed our snow shovels, and went to work. We started by shoveling out our driveways and cars. We greeted neighbors doing the same. Then we started helping each other whenever we could. Snow blowers were shared. Paths were dug out so little dogs could have a place to walk. Anyone with an extra snow plow attached it to their truck and cleared side drives while the state workers cleared the main roads. People who still had electricity thanked God for it and then went out to help those who had lost theirs.

Electric line workers were tireless in their efforts to restore as many
homes' power as quickly as possible and every person whose home was lit back up smiled with a new appreciation for the energy they once took for granted. Families gathered around stoves, hugged each other in blankets, and looked out on the majestic mountains covered in snow. Then when the warm sun returned after days of cold, they greeted it like a long lost friend. They watched the beautiful sunrise too like it was for the very first time.

All of this gave me a new respect for all the tough times and bad weather I had faced in my own life. I see now that God is always with us in our Winter nights as well as our Summer days. I see too that our love and joy sometimes grow warmest when life is at its coldest.

By Joseph J. Mazzella


Read and meditate on these scriptures:

1 John 4:7-11 “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and
every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is 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 Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.”

1 Peter 3:8-11 “Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye
are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. For he that will
love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.”

All of these scriptures can be found in the King James Version Bible.

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Seeing Angels

SEEING ANGELS

Almost 9 months exactly after my Mom died my youngest child was born. I felt truly blessed by God having this new baby come after such a difficult year. I did feel regret, though, that my new son would never get to know my wonderful Mom. As my baby got older, however, I started to notice something. When I would be playing with my son he would often look past me, over my shoulder and smile. At other times it seemed like he was laughing and playing with someone I couldn’t see or hear. This mystery suddenly became clear one day when I showed him his Grandma’s picture and he giggled like he had known her all of his short life. It was then that it occurred to me that while my son may not have gotten to know my Mom in person, he had certainly gotten to know her angelic spirit watching over him.

I was remembering all of this the other day while taking a stroll. It made my own spirit feel warm with God’s love and joy. While I was walking along too I saw a little girl who I knew was always shy around strangers. I was amazed then when she looked at me, lit up in a big smile, and waved. That’s when I realized that children can not only sometimes see the invisible angels around us, but can often see the angel living within each of us as well.

I think that Earth would be a lot more like Heaven if we all looked at
each other and saw the angels within. What a paradise this world would be if all of us recognized each other as brothers, sisters, and Children of the same God. What a holy place this planet would become if we all realized that each of us is a special soul sent here on a mission of learning and love.

Always remember then that angels are all around us and that an angelic spirit lives within each of us. It is up to us to see the angels in each other and to allow our own angel within to share its love, joy, peace, happiness, goodness, and light with the world.

By Joseph J. Mazzella

Read and meditate on these scriptures:

Matthew 6:19-21 Jesus declares, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

1 John 4:10-12 “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.”

Romans 12:9-10 “Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another.”

All of these scriptures can be found in the King James Version Bible.

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Kehidupan Kekal

Kehidupan Kekal (2 Korintus 4:16-5:10)

Kehidupan kita di dunia ini bagaikan kehidupan di rantau (negeri asing).  Kita hanya untuk sementara sambil menantikan panggilan Bapa di sorga.  Sebagai perantau tentunya kita harus mengikuti peraturan di rantau.  Bagaimana pun susahnya, aturan harus diikuti.

Kita pun harus maklum bahwa tidak semua yang kita dapatkan di rantau dapat kita bawa pulang.  Hanya roh kita, jiwa kita, dan segala amal ibadah kita yang bisa dibawa pulang.

Karena itulah janganlah kita menjadi sama dengan dunia ini yang cenderung cinta akan uang sehingga sepanjang hari kita diisi hanya dengan kegiatan menimbun uang terus menerus.  Lupa akan pengembangan rohani kita.  Lupa akan hubungan akrab dengan Allah.

Ada beberapa motif menimbun uang yakni :

1. Keserakahan : Ingin lebih dan lebih.  Dia tidak tahu bahwa pundinya bisa bocor sehingga apa yang dikerjakan berakhir sia-sia.  Karena uang yang ditimbunnya selalu mencari jalan untuk keluar.  Selalu ada saja yang perlu dikeluarkan sehingga uang yang terkumpul menjadi terkuras.

2. Kekuatiran : Takut mempunyai madesu (masa depan suram).  Kurang memahami kasih setia Allah yang menjamin pemeliharaan Allah apabila kita selalu menaati perkataan-Nya.

3. Ketidaktahuan : Dia tidak mengerti bahwa kehidupan ini hanya sekejab dan ada kehidupan lain yang kekal yang seharusnya menjadi target akhirnya.

Jadi bagaimanakah kita harus bersikap?

a. Percaya akan kasih setia Allah.  Dia tidak akan meninggalkan kita dan Dia selalu peduli pada kita.

b. Percaya bahwa apa pun yang menjadi hak/rezeki kita tidak akan pergi meninggalkan kita.  Tetapi apa pun yang bukan hak/rezeki kita pasti hanya numpang lewat saja.

c. Tabah menghadapi ujian dan cobaan.

d. Yakinlah bahwa yang terbaik telah disediakan untuk kita selama kita menaati firman-Nya.

Tidak inginkah Anda memiliki kehidupan yang kekal?

Salam kasih, Deny S Pamudji

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Passionate Living

PASSIONATE LIVING

One man quipped: “It's not that I'm afraid of dying. It's just that I've
been alive for as long as I can remember, and I'm kind of set in my ways.”

Some people are afraid of dying. Others are not concerned about their
death...but they worry about how they're going to get there. Will illness linger? Or will it be sudden?

I can't even guess how or when I might die, but knowing my life will end has actually helped me to live more passionately. I think others have discovered the same phenomenon.

Journalists Bill and Judith Moyers documented death and dying in the U.S. They discovered that many terminal patients they interviewed actually began to live with joy and passion only after they learned they were dying. Like one man said, “If you are told you will never see spring again, and you live to see spring, spring takes on a whole new life.”

Psychologist Abraham Maslow had a similar experience. After his first heart attack he realized that his remaining days on earth were short. He wrote about it to a friend: “My river never seemed so beautiful (Maslow lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the Charles River). The confrontation with death -- and reprieve from it -- makes everything look so precious, so sacred, so beautiful and I feel more strongly than ever the impulse to love it, to embrace it, and to let myself be overwhelmed by it...”

Can you imagine feeling that way? He ends with this remarkable statement: “Death and its ever present possibility makes love, passionate love, more possible. I wonder if we could love passionately, if ecstasy would be possible at all, if we knew we'd never die.”

Why wait until we are told by a doctor that we may not have much time to live. Aren't we all terminal? We became so at birth. And that is a wonderful thing to know. For strange as it may seem, knowing life is all too short can help us to live...beautifully, meaningfully, passionately.

It is a matter of embracing every day as if it were your last. Saying what needs to be said today. Making plans to do today what you've been putting off. And taking some time maybe just to do nothing but appreciate life.

Like Emily says in Thornton Wilder's play “Our Town”: “Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?” I hope that I can say, “Yes, at least a few times, I think I really did.”

By Steve Goodier

Read and meditate on these scriptures:

Matthew 11:28-30 Jesus declares “Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.”

Psalm 28:6-8 “Blessed be the LORD, because He hath heard the voice of my supplications. The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise Him. The LORD is their strength, and He is the saving strength of His anointed.”

Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”

All of these scriptures can be found in the King James Version Bible.

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A Heavenly Person

A HEAVENLY PERSON

My new dog, Snoopy Girl is a morning person. She starts the day at full speed chasing her tail, the cats, and the other dogs. She wolfs down her breakfast with gusto before tearing down the hallway in search of new adventures. She says, "Good Morning" by taking a running leap up on the couch and giving anyone sitting there a shower of kisses. While she does all this I watch with awe, drink my orange juice, eat my oatmeal, and dream of going back to bed. I have often wondered how she has so much energy in the morning, but then I realized the simple truth the other day: she takes a lot more naps than I do.

I know a few people, however, who go beyond being just a morning or an evening person. These people may get tired and need naps just like the rest of us, but even when their energy is low their love is still high. They are Heavenly persons. They care, they laugh, and they smile even through the worst pains and challenges. They face life without fear. They share love with no thought of reward. And they meet death with a faith and peace that passes all understanding. They give all their days here to bring Heaven closer to Earth. They spend their whole lives showing the rest of us how to live in love and oneness with God.

The good news is that whether you are a morning person, an afternoon person, or an evening person you can be a Heavenly person too. You can choose love. You can choose joy. You can choose oneness with God every single day. You can share it all with everyone you meet. You can help to bring Heaven into the hearts, minds, and souls of others. You can help to make the world around you a better place morning, noon, and night. And even on those exhausting days when you stumble and fall you can rise up, dust yourself off, take your Heavenly Father’s hand, and begin again to
live as a Child of Heaven even while you are here on Earth.

By Joseph J. Mazzella

Read and meditate on these scriptures:

James 1:22-25 “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”

James 3:10-12 “Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.”

1 Peter 3:8-11 “Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil
for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that
ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. For he that
will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil,
and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.”

All of these scriptures can be found in the King James Version Bible.

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Wisdom

I WANTED TO BREATHE

There once was an eager student who wanted to gain wisdom and insight. He went to the wisest of the town, Socrates, to seek his counsel. Socrates was an old soul and had great knowledge of many things. The boy asked the town sage how he too could acquire such mastery. Being a man of few words, Socrates chose not to speak, but to illustrate.

He took the child to the beach and, with all of his clothes still on,
walked straight out into the water. He loved to do curious things like
that, especially when he was trying to prove a point. The pupil gingerly followed his instruction and walked into the sea, joining Socrates where the water was just below their chins. Without saying a word, Socrates reached out and put his hands on the boy's shoulders. Looking deep into his student's eyes, Socrates pushed the student's head under the water with all his might.

A struggle ensued, and just before a life was taken away, Socrates
released his captive. The boy raced to the surface and, gasping for air
and choking from the salt water, looked around for Socrates in order to seek his retaliation on the sage. To the student's bewilderment, the old man was already patiently waiting on the beach.

When the student arrived on the sand, he angrily shouted, “Why did you try to kill me?” The wise man calmly retorted with a question of his own: “Boy, when you were underneath the water, not sure if you would live to see another day, what did you want more than anything in the world?”

The student took a few moments to reflect, then went with his intuition. Softly he said, “I wanted to breathe.” Socrates, now illuminated by his own huge smile, looked at the boy comfortingly and said, “Ah! When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you wanted to breathe, it is then that you shall have it.”

By Jim Schinnerer

Joshua 1:9 “Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” 

The scripture can be found in the King James Version Bible

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Tiada Yang Mustahil

Tiada Yang Mustahil (Matius 19:16-30)

Dikisahkan ada seorang pemimpin Yahudi yang kaya raya datang pada Yesus dan bertanya pada-Nya bagaimanakah mendapat hidup yang kekal?  Karena dia merasa sudah melakukan semua perintah Allah, tetapi masih belum yakin akan kehidupan yang akan dihadapinya kelak.

Kepastian akan masuk sorga adalah tidak mungkin bagi manusia karena hukum Allah tegas dan satu pelanggaran saja sudah menjadikan seseorang terkena hukuman atau ternoda sehingga akan mendapat rintangan untuk diterima di sorga.

Tetapi Allah melalui Yesus telah memberikan solusi atas kemustahilan manusia untuk masuk sorga.  Dengan kematian Yesus di kayu salib, Yesus telah menebus semua dan menggenapkan apa yang tidak bisa dipenuhi kita sehingga Allah tidak lagi melihat pelanggaran kita karena semua telah ditutup dengan darah korban yang utama yakni darah Yesus sendiri.

Jadi dalam Yesus, jika kita selalu taat pada firman-Nya, ada kepastian kelak kita masuk sorga.  Tidak boleh ada lagi keraguan dalam hati sehingga kita siap kapan pun Allah memanggil kita.  Allah hanya minta agar kita bersikap seperti anak kecil yang percaya semua perkataan-Nya dan melakukan firman-Nya dengan sungguh-sungguh.

Sudahkah Saudara memiliki kepastian masuk sorga?  Datanglah pada Yesus karena di dalam Dia tiada yang mustahil untuk bisa ke sorga. Haleluya.

Salam kasih, Deny S Pamudji

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