God knows you, and every great thing or moment of weakness you have ever had. But great deeds cannot build a stairway to God, nor can our failures lock us away from Him. The yearning of our hearts for something we cannot name is built into our souls. What we long for is a connection with our God; a need to belong to his family. And God himself has already paid the price so that you can be part of that family! If you are seeking Him, there is an easy path that can change your life!  One author proposed that there are four simple "Spiritual Laws" that can express the beauty of God's love for us:
 

The First Law: The Love

   God has a personal love for you, and knows everything about you. God wants your life to grow and blossom, and be all that it can be!

   "God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life." (John 3:16)

   [Christ speaking] "I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly." [that is, "full and meaningful"] (John 10:10)

 


The Second Law: The Lost

   Our own bad choices in life, our sin, separates us from God the Father. Try as we might, we cannot make ourselves perfect enough to reach up to a perfect God. We stubbornly cling to things that seem wise to ourselves, ignoring His plans for us. We try to invent our own paths to God, by our own efforts, ignoring His sacrifice. Though His love is eternal, on our own we cannot fully connect with it.

"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23)

"The wages of sin is death." [spiritual separation from God] (Romans 6:23)




The Third Law: The Plan

   A popular song once said "God is watching us...from a distance." Nothing could be more wrong! An all-powerful God once gave up part of himself, and sent that spirit to live in the flesh among us. Can you imagine that? God knows your pains, your joys, your fears because He walked in the flesh of a man. Our God knows all about us, firsthand.
   In ages past, people made sacrifices to God in an effort to pay for their sins. They gave up things that were precious to them, as payment for the times they failed. But a greater sacrifice has already been made; a perfect sacrifice to make you clean before God!
   Jesus personally knew your every sins and mine when he walked to the cross...and went anyway. And that perfect sacrifice pays not only for a moment of man's sins, but for all time! Christ alone bridges the gap between ourselves and a perfect God. Thanks to Him, we can once again be connected to the Father that loves us! Through Him, we are adopted out of ourselves, and into the family of God. And in His resurrection, we are guaranteed not only a changed life today, but an eternity "at home" tomorrow.


   "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.'" (John 14:6)

   "God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)

   "Christ died for our sins...He was buried...He was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures...He appeared to Peter, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred..." (1 Corinthians 15:3-6)

 

The Fourth Law: The Homecoming

   The Bible says that Christ often spoke to his followers about the need to become "a child of God." But do you know that to those original followers, those Hebrew words would have been heard as "adopted child of God"?
   In Christ's time, when a person was adopted, it was more than just being legally made part of another family. In the custom of that time, the adopted person had to agree. They had to accept being made part of the family. Today, God's family is still the same way. The Bible says that God wants everyone to come into His family. But actually accepting that invitation is up to you.
   We all face this question. For you, in your walk, it may take years of consideration and study to reach the point where you are ready. Or, as some are, are you ready right now?
 

• You Are Invited to Become Part of the Family
  

     "As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name" (John 1:12)

• We Cannot "Earn" Our Way to God's Love
  

     "By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast" (Ephesians 2:8,9)

• Through Christ Alone, We are "Born Again"
  

     Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him." In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again."
     "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!"
     Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.'

• We Receive Christ by His Invitation
  

     [Christ speaking] "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him." (Revelation 3:20)

You Can Receive Christ Right Now by Faith Through Prayer

   "Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be."

That's It?

        This page is a paraphrase of Campus Crusade's "Four Spiritual Laws."

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