Over the past five years, I have learned that if people willingly lie and cheat on a golf course, among people they know, they will do the same when sit down on the pew among people they know.
I have also learned that if people willing deceive others on a golf course, they will also try to pull the wool over the eyes of God when they arrive in church. or in a religious institution.
Over the past five years, I have learned---from playing golf and from knowing God---that the character of people does not change from time to time, from place to place, nor from arena to arena; for people are what they are, and they will remain as they are, until they come clean with God in true repentance and by their acceptance of Christ for their salvation.
Unless people are willing to come clean with God, they will never come clean with people, for they will remain as they are.
True change in people happens in the heart, and not in the head. If the heart goes unchanged, the head will do as the heart desires.
For this reason, Christ is an inside job---a transformation of the heart. Therefore when the heart is changed, the head will follow: and the outward appearance will be a refection of an inner light that shoos away the darkness.
God knows us. We cannot hide from Him. He knows where we are, and He knows everything we have ever done, no matter if we have done good, and no matter if we have done evil. And He is willing to forget it all by forgiving it all if we are willing to do this one thing: kneel to Christ.
None of us is perfect, or sinless. Not one of us is able to make ourselves clean enough to be accepted by God. For it is Christ who cleanses us, scrubs us, and washes away our sins by the power of His amazing grace.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2: 8-9)
Salvation, therefore, is from grace through faith, and it is the gift a God: neatly wrapped in the person of Christ, personally delivered to our hearts: free of charge, and postage paid.
Your tee time has arrived.
I have also learned that if people willing deceive others on a golf course, they will also try to pull the wool over the eyes of God when they arrive in church. or in a religious institution.
Over the past five years, I have learned---from playing golf and from knowing God---that the character of people does not change from time to time, from place to place, nor from arena to arena; for people are what they are, and they will remain as they are, until they come clean with God in true repentance and by their acceptance of Christ for their salvation.
Unless people are willing to come clean with God, they will never come clean with people, for they will remain as they are.
True change in people happens in the heart, and not in the head. If the heart goes unchanged, the head will do as the heart desires.
For this reason, Christ is an inside job---a transformation of the heart. Therefore when the heart is changed, the head will follow: and the outward appearance will be a refection of an inner light that shoos away the darkness.
God knows us. We cannot hide from Him. He knows where we are, and He knows everything we have ever done, no matter if we have done good, and no matter if we have done evil. And He is willing to forget it all by forgiving it all if we are willing to do this one thing: kneel to Christ.
None of us is perfect, or sinless. Not one of us is able to make ourselves clean enough to be accepted by God. For it is Christ who cleanses us, scrubs us, and washes away our sins by the power of His amazing grace.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2: 8-9)
Salvation, therefore, is from grace through faith, and it is the gift a God: neatly wrapped in the person of Christ, personally delivered to our hearts: free of charge, and postage paid.
Your tee time has arrived.
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