Pastor's Corner

Passwords

Once again I had, with humiliation, and a feeling that my mind is going (or gone), clicked on the “I can’t remember password” icon. I had misremembered another password and couldn’t get into the site where I had just been invited to get an update on a friend’s battle with cancer.

It was bad enough when every site started wanting a password and I could use the same two or three. Then they started insisting that I use Capitals, numbers, and then they even rated my attempt….  This time I was told I was “weak,” or at least my attempt at being creative in creating a new password. Sigh, so again I was on the way to another convoluted password that I will forget by the time I need it again.

I am glad that, as far as we know, you don’t need a password to get into heaven.

What opens the door is not a secret code, a password, or any other barrier. What opens the door to eternal life with God is love. Starting with John 3:16, and going on to Romans 5:8-11…

⁸But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. ⁹Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. ¹⁰For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. ¹¹Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation.

Not shut out because we don’t know a secret code but welcomed in the name of love; not as outsiders, but…

“Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.” Ephesians 2:19-20

Welcome to the kingdom!

In Service,

Dave Powell, Pastor

P.S.  Anybody seen where I put the slip of paper with that password on it for the pun-a-day website? Kim swears she didn’t move it!