Lastly, I just wanted to share the most important and precious message with you. It explains how grace is opposite of all religion. Please read it, for God loves you so much and one day all suffering can go away....for the believer in Heaven. 🙂

Here is God’s message on repentance and salvation--taken entirely from His Word, the Bible--which America was founded upon. Please embrace this message, for it is the opposite of religion. Religions are man-made attempts to “reach” God by good works/morals and rituals, while salvation is God loving us enough to “reach” down to us by coming to earth. His reaching down to us is the only way we can go to Heaven. We cannot work or earn our way to Heaven because it requires perfection, and none of us are perfect. Ever told a lie? Ever hated or been angry with anyone in your heart? These are breaches of God’s holy law, the Ten Commandments, which we have ALL broken. (Romans 3:23: “For ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”) We all deserve Hell because of this. Still, many ask: “Why would a loving God send people to Hell?” The Bible answers in Habakkuk 1:13, “God’s eyes are too pure to approve evil, and God cannot look on wickedness with favor.” He is the holy, perfect, and just God, and because of His justice, He cannot ignore our sin. However, because He abundantly loves us and wants to save us from Hell, He came in human form to die on the cross for our sins. Furthermore, His love is SO great that He wants to have a relationship with us and allow us a home in Heaven with Him too, by way of the cross! (Romans 5:8: “But God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.”) By substitution He became sin for us so we can be seen as “perfect” by God’s grace. (Grace refers to God’s unmerited favor toward us—we do not deserve this substitution.) We can go to Heaven by believing Jesus is the perfect Son of God/God in human-form who died on the cross for our sins and rose from the dead three days after His death to give us eternal life. Again, we cannot earn Heaven by any good deeds. (Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”) Again, this is the message of salvation that the Bible talks about and is the ONLY way to Heaven. Acts 4:12 says, “There is no salvation in any other than Jesus Christ, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Ephesians 2:8 also says, “For by grace you’ve been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.” Again, to accept this beautiful gift, we must believe that we are sinners against the One and Only, Holy God, and that Jesus Christ died to pay the penalty for sin. In other words, we must repent, and that means we change our minds about sin and who Christ is. We change from not seeing the sin as sin and enjoying it, to seeing it as sin and having a desire to be free from it. It’s a humble desire to do what God wants, knowing that both eliminating sin and growing in holiness will only occur by relying on Christ and yielding to Him daily. Mark 1:15 tells us to “repent and believe in the gospel.”
God is waiting for your response to His free and precious offer. Romans 10:9 states: “If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” If you want to accept His free gift of salvation, just talk to Him in prayer and say (confess) something like: “Dear God, I know that I am a sinner separated from You and deserve to spend eternity in Hell (the penalty for sin). I trust, though, that You paid the penalty of sin for me instead, and forgave me of all of my sins by dying on the cross and rising from the dead. I believe that faith in the precious gift of the cross of Christ is the only way to be saved (have a relationship with You and go to Heaven). I now place my faith, alone, in Your wondrous gift of grace. Thank-You for saving me. As Your child now, I want You to grow me to be like Jesus, as I seek You in prayer, Bible study, and fellowship with other believers at a biblically sound church. In Jesus’ Name I pray, Amen.
(Personal P.S. If the Creator of the universe loved us enough to come to earth to relate to our sufferings, weaknesses, and temptations, and show perfect, unconditional love by dying a death for us that He didn’t deserve, wouldn’t you want a relationship with Him? Wouldn’t you want to love Him in return by repenting and surrendering yourself to Him? Wouldn’t you want to see in your own life more of that love He can show and the growth He can do? I’ve seen Him do some beautiful and awesome things in my own life. I don’t know how I’d live a single day without communicating with Him, praising Him, and seeking His help. God loves you more than any human could ever love you! Please don’t reject Him today! This is all straight from the Bible, God’s voice. If you own one, please read Romans and John in the New Testament, and you’ll see that this is all from there!)