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 experienced that several times over the summer as we were making the switch from one computer to another. As Al has been helping his dad deal with the aftermath of his mom's passing, there is a whole new set of passwords to remember. When I had my stroke last fall, Al was confronted with trying to figure out my passwords. At one point, he was locked out of my phone for several weeks because he didn't have the right password, and following the instructions to get past that was more confusing than trying to figure out the passwords!
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)
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