Knowing Jesus Personally

In the beginning of all things, God created people to live with Him in the perfect world, the garden of Eden. We had a perfect relationship with God, we spent time in the garden. But we rebelled and chose to want to be like God, knowing the difference between Good and evil. Our relationship with Him became broken, we were no longer able to commune with God because of our willful disobedience.

God wanted to repair our broken relationship with Him but knew we as humans were unable to live our lives in a way worthy of Him.

As was part of God’s plan, he sent his only Son into this world as a human being, born as a baby in a manger in the town of Bethlehem being fully human. He sent his Son, to be the atoning sacrifice so we could again have a relationship with God. Jesus was sentenced to death on a cross. The Gospel of John tells us that “God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). Jesus died for our sins. Through His death, He took the punishment we deserve for choosing to disobey God.

But the story doesn’t end there! By the power of God, Jesus was raised to life again and in so doing was the first one to be raised to life, and because He was raised to life so will we after death if only we believe that He made the ultimate sacrifice on our behalf. The apostle Paul summed it up best when he said that in Jesus, “we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us” (Ephesians 1:7-8).

One day, Jesus will return and God will live among his people as it was meant to be from the beginning. And that will be when this great story will be brought to its conclusion.

The best part is that God invites each one of us into His story. He wants us to have a relationship with Jesus, so that we can also have a relationship with Him. In order to know Jesus personally, we must do two things: believe and act.

We believe that Jesus is who He said He is, that He died on the cross in our place, and that God raised Him from the dead.

When we act, we repent of our disobedience. Repenting simply means that we turn around and walk the other direction. We decide to walk on God’s path instead of our own. We can find the way of God in the Bible, which teaches us how to live for Him. We can also always talk to God through prayer—He always listens and always understands.

It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’ve come from, or what you’ve done—everyone is invited to accept God’s free gift of salvation.

Accepting this sacrifice for our sins is as easy as praying to God, and saying yes Lord, I know I am a sinner and believe that You Jesus died for my sins and be able to enter into Relationship with you and have eternal life after death.