The Prescription for A Fulfilled Life
The Bible is the story of how God created us to be in relationship with Him, but we decided to live our own lives. Because of His great love for us He spends all of history reaching out to us to renew that relationship with us. When we follow Jesus, who died on the cross for us, paying the penalty we should have paid, we become new again and begin to grow in the new relationship God always wanted us to have with Him.
Below are a few select verses of encouragement.
(The New Living Translation)
Genesis 1:27 So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Romans 3:23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
John 3:16 For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people.
John 14:6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.”
Acts 4:12 “There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.”
Romans 10:9-10 If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved.
Romans 10:13 For “Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.”
Ephesians 2:8-9 God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
11. When we trust in Jesus we enter that right relationship with God and now we have peace with God.
Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.
2 Corinthians 5:17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.
Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.
