Your Password Is Incorrect

We live in a world that requires a password for everything.  Access to your smartphone.  Or to Facebook.  Or to Twitter.  Or to online banking.  Or online shopping.  Or to retrieve your voice mail.  There's a password for everything.

Have you ever forgotten a password?  Oh, the frustration!  And if you forgot the password and you also forgot the answers to the security questions that would help you retrieve and reset the password........

It's a nightmare. 

We went through that a couple of times over the summer.  And then again, yesterday, Al forgot a password that he had just reset a few weeks ago.  We had written it down on the day it was reset.  But because we were on the road, it didn't get written down in the place it normally would have.  Which meant that yesterday there was a search to find where it had actually been written down.  Eventually we found it, after much searching and frustration.

All that frustration reminded me once again how thankful I am that, when it comes time for me to enter Heaven, I won't need some combination of letters and numbers and special characters.

Because Jesus paid it all, and because I am in a personal relationship with Him, there is no other password needed.  I will enter Heaven, as the old gospel hymn said, in the merits of Jesus who for sinners bled and died. 

No other password needed.  Thank You, Lord!

"Christ died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit."
(1 Peter 3:18 NASB)