So

it's Good Friday.

Holy Week.

Leave it to me to be Debbie Downer right :-).

Everybody's got special plans this weekend right?

Lots of people anyway.

Chocolate bunnies and eggs and Easter egg hunts 

and new dresses for girls and new outfits for boys and special diners and on and on and on.

I didn't wanna write this.

I really didn't

Been putting it off for days.

But?

I do what I'm told.

Regardless of who it angers.

So?

Here goes.

You can go to Church every Sunday of your life.

You can go to Sunday School.

You can teach Sunday School.

You can be the Vacation Bible School Director.

Lead the youth group.

Sing in the choir.

Be a deacon.

Be the finance director.

Be on multiple committees.

Pray all day every day.

Read the bible everyday.

Tithe and give gifts above whats expected.

On and on and on.

But know this.

God knows your heart.

And if you don't in your heart honestly believe that Jesus Christ was the living son of God, born supernaturally, lived a sinless life and was sent specifically to die on the cross and shed his blood for the atonement of the sins of mankind, and that on the third day he arose, defeating death forever, proving once and for all that he was indeed who he said he was?

If you don't honestly in your heart believe that?

Then none of this:

You can go to Church every Sunday of your life.

You can go to Sunday School.

You can teach Sunday School.

You can be the Vacation Bible School Director.

Lead the youth group.

Sing in the choir.

Be a deacon.

Be the finance director.

Be on multiple committees.

Pray all day every day.

Read the bible everyday.

Tithe and give gifts above whats expected.

means a thing.

God knows your heart.

I hope this Sunday some people sit in the pews and actually examine what it is in their hearts  they truly believe.

Ephesians 2:8-9

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.

Love you Lucy.