As Jesus came into Galilee he said:
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent you, and believe the gospel. (Mark 1:15)
Jesus said to repent, so we are to have a change of our will, a change of our mind, from what we are believing, to believing the gospel.
So what is the gospel Jesus told us to believe instead of what we are believing?
Paul declares it to us in 1 Corinthians 15, telling us we are to stand in it, to keep it in memory; and raising the question... Or did you believe the gospel in vain!?
1: Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2: By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
Here is the gospel!
3: For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4: And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
So what did Jesus tell us to change to believing? How that he, Jesus, died for our sins, and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day for us.
Romans 1:16 tells us that gospel Jesus told us to believe, is the Power of God!! And if we need the power of God to work, we have got to believe the gospel!
We are to believe nothing else, we are to trust in nothing else, we are to look at nothing else, we are not to listen to anything else, we are not to stand in anything else, but the gospel!
When you want to believe you missed it on a situation, or maybe you hear, "You should've done this or that", whatever the case; you must not look at believing those things, you must do what Jesus told us, change from that and believe the gospel!!
Just encouraging myself to do the same today!
God bless!
Misty
