It's been some time since my last blog, but today I was considering the following: Just hours ago Rosh HaShanah ended in Israel. Rosh HaShanah literally means, "head of the year" and is commonly known as the Jewish New Year. It is observed on the first day of Tishri, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar. In ten days they will celebrate the Yom Kippur - the day of Atonement. Yom Kippur represents the conclusion of the very important and somber period called the Days of Awe (the 10 days between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur) because life and death hung in the balance, the Jews believing that the destiny of each person was decided by the heavenly court in this period. On the Day of Atonement the people prepared themselves, with fasting and prayer, to stand trial before the heavenly court that would review their life of the past year and render a verdict.
As Christians, we believe that Atonement has been made for man through the blood of Jesus. It is by grace through faith that we are saved. That faith is in the work of Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary. It is when we make Jesus “Lord” of our lives that the atonement is applied to us. Make no mistake, the Greek word for Lord is kurios meaning, “he to whom a person or thing belongs, which he has power of deciding; master; lord”. Jesus becomes owner of our lives and we become his servant. That means we must follow the plan he has for us.
Over these next few days, take time to count the cost. Perhaps you believe in Jesus, but you have never made him owner over everything for your life, or perhaps you have never put your trust in Jesus. To you I say, today is the day of salvation, repent and ask Jesus to be your Lord.
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