As we discussed before ... Standing on your second STEPPING STONE, and looking out over your garden, you can see that it needs some work. BUT ... Before we get to work, we must complete this step. The third STEPPING STONE is something that requires absolutely NO WORK at all on your part.

God sacrificed His only Son to get His children into Heaven.

Think about that for a second ...

God sacrificed His ONLY SON to get YOU into Heaven.

But, why did God CHOOSE to sacrifice His Son? It’s very simple. Because mankind had done so much bad, that all the sacrificing in the world wouldn’t cleanse away the sin. See, long ago, animal sacrifices were needed to cleanse away the sins that mankind committed against God. But now ... Jesus is the sacrifice. Believing in Jesus, cleanses away OUR past sins. God loved us so much, that even knowing the only sacrifice that would suffice, was His own Son, and He decided to do it anyway ... to save His children.

One more thing to ponder on ...
Jesus Himself CHOSE to lay down His life for YOU.

As time passes, you’ll find that you begin to make the right choices, out of love ...

Sometimes these things are allowed to happen for a reason, that we don’t understand, reasons that we can’t even fathom. I’ve found that nine times out of ten, it was caused by negligence or a decision made on mankind's part. A true friend tells the TRUTH, and the TRUTH is, most of the time, we bring our problems on ourselves.
 
 

Every day, each of us makes choices that have the capability to affect ourselves and others, whether the choice be good or bad. God allows mankind to make their own decisions because He doesn’t want puppets. He allows us free will. The other one out of ten (reasons why things are allowed to happen) is what I call the test or trial factor. See the book of JOB. I have no idea why God allows certain things to happen, but regardless of why, it is His Will and perhaps one day we will understand why certain things were allowed to happen.
Until then ... We must trust HIM.

If you have lost love due to death or divorce ... Check out this study.

FORGIVEN AND FORGOTTEN

David desired Uriah’s wife Bathsheba but she was married. He laid with her anyway and she conceived a child by King David while her husband was out at war defending his country and HIS KING. David found out Bathsheba was pregnant so he called Uriah in from the war zone and  tried to get Uriah to lay with Bathsheba while he was on leave from the war. David wanted Uriah to believe that he was the Dad of the child Bathsheba was pregnant with and not King David, so that nobody would figure out what King David had done. But Uriah, being a good man said he would not take rest and sleep with his wife while his fellow Israelite soldiers were at war.

David was in trouble ... Sooooooo, David ordered the Captain of the army to place Uriah on the front line of the war where the battle was heated up so that he was sure to be killed. Uriah WAS killed and David took his wife Bathsheba as his own wife.

But ... God was watching and sent a prophet to David to let David know that God was not pleased. David repented of his sin.

David was punished by the death of the child that Bathsheba conceived by him, and God forgave David of this sin.