Precious one ... how important is it to you to get to know God?  Above all else, God wants you and I to get to know Him.  Yet there is a barrier that keeps that from happening.  That barrier is called sin.  Yet God loves us so much that in His mercy, He provided a way for our sin barrier to be removed.  What was that way? 

Maybe you have heard this before, or maybe it’s the first time you have ever heard it:  Jesus Christ died for your sins so all your sins can be forgiven - so that no barrier now has to remain between you and God.

Have you ever heard this:  God Himself died for your sins so they can all be forgiven - so the barrier of sin between you and Him can be removed?

The New Testament Bible clearly states that literally, God Himself, was the one who purposely took the punishment on the Cross for the sins of every human being, (Read the entire first Chapter of the Book of John in the New Testament Bible for proof, or for convenience sake, click: HERE) so that they can be forgiven of all their sins, and they can have confident assurance that if they will believe this to be true -- fact -- they can be fully reconciled back to God in good standing, and can have full assurance that they not only are totally acceptable to God now … but have complete confidence that upon dying, they will immediately be in the presence of God for eternity, receiving His joy forevermore. 

Simply stated, when you ask God to save you from your sins, and trust that He has (and He truly wants you to believe that He has, but the devil doesn’t!), you immediately are spiritually “reconciled back to God” in good standing.  It requires nothing else!  You don’t have to try to be “good enough” to ask Him, because there is nothing so bad you may have done that He won’t forgive.  We are not lying to you.

However … sooner the better … you need to understand how you became spiritually separated from God in the first place.  Here is what the New Testament Bible communicates:

Every person born on this planet is spiritually separated from God at birth, because of the sinful disobedience of the first two created people, Adam and Eve. All offspring of Adam and Eve was born with (inherited) this same disobedient nature to God, separating us spiritually from Him.   It is our sin (and our sinfully rebellious nature) we inherited at birth that separates us from a holy God. 

That's why Jesus tells us in John 3:5 that: "We must be born again to enter the Kingdom of God."  We need to be spiritual reunited with God, because our sins – our sinful nature – God cannot tolerate and will not allow in His presence ... and furthermore, must judge it.  An all-righteous Judge must give punishment for wrongdoing against Him and others. 

Is there any way then, we can be saved from being punished in hell for eternity for our sins?

Do you want to hear some incredibly Good News?  God the Father judged all our sins on the Cross!  God the Father dumped His anger and wrath against our sins on Jesus Christ (who was fully God before He came to earth as a human being, and was fully God when He resurrected and went back to heaven) so that we can now be forgiven of our sins!  Past sins we committed – sins we might commit tomorrow or next week or next year or next decade, if we live that long, are ... and will all ... be forgiven.  Have you ever heard of such wonderful news?!  Can you say? … “WOW!”

Let’s say it a little different way to try to help you understand what God did for humanity – for you.  God Himself took full punishment for all your sins upon Himself on the Cross so that you could be fully forgiven for them, and have total, complete confidence that you will not be judged by God and sent to hell for those sins!   If we believe this, and are willing to die believing it … we have been immediately and fully reconciled back to God in good standing, and with that comes our full right to believe that God totally accepts us just the way we are upon our asking the heavenly Father to forgive us for our sins.  When we ask Him to forgive us for our sins – He promises that He does forgive us of them … and it’s as though we never sinned in His eyes!  Simply incredible, isn’t it?!

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.  If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  -- 1 John 1:8-9

But remember … you have an enemy who does not want you believing this incredible truth.  His name is Satan. 

(An important side note before continuing: God does in fact accept us just as we are when we confess our sins to Him and ask His forgiveness … but He loves us too much to let us stay “just the way we are” as we continue in our personal relationship with Him in the days ahead.  He forgives our sin ... but He also has expectations that we will strive to stop committing those same sins in the future, because they will only do more harm to us than any eternal good).

Here is God’s promise to everyone of us from the Bible what we have sought to communicate about being "reconciled back to God" up until now:

Scripture assures us in Romans 5:8-11 of this fact -- (Words in brackets are ours to help people understand):

"But God (the Father) demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners (spiritually disobedient in our nature to Him because of our arrogant pride and rebellion - selfishness - self-will - self-centeredness - self-preoccupation - and our lust for recognition, power, money and pursuit of pleasure without any boundaries or constraints), Christ died for us.

"Much more then, having been justified by His blood (shed on the cross), we shall be saved from wrath (eternal punishment in hell at the Judgment Day, out of the presence of God and eternal joy ... forever) through Him (Jesus Christ -- The Son of God.  This happens just to be two of His names).

"For if when we were enemies (separated from God because God cannot and will not bless our sin; and with our sins assuring us that upon Judgment Day, we will be judged and sentenced to hell for eternity for them) we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life (if we put our trust in Jesus Christ to forgive us of our sins, because He gave His life for this very purpose).

"And not only that, but we also rejoice in God (the Father) through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation (the MEANS in which we can become acceptable and intimate with God the Father this very moment in time).

Scripture also assures us in 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 that we not only can be reunited in good standing with God NOW . . . we can also find purpose in helping others to know that they TOO can be used of God to help others spiritually separated from God to be reunited with Him in good standing as well:

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new (spiritual) creation; old things (our sin that kept us separated from God, and/or our attempts to be pleasing to God by "earning our way to heaven" and by "somehow trying to be good enough") have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

"Now all things are of God (The Father), who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us (saved - spiritually reborn - Christians) the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

"For He (The Father) made Him (Jesus Christ) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (Jesus Christ)."  

[To help you understand what it means "that we might become the righteousness of God in Him" you can click: Here ]

So, precious one, if you would like to be spiritually reconciled to God this very moment, all you have to do is ask Him. You can do it in your own words, or you can repeat this simple prayer:

Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you right now in the name of Jesus Christ ... asking that you save me from my sins ... so I can get to know you - so I can be friends with you.