In Line

"Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed what they had done"- Acts 19:18 (NIV).

People were ready to give up all their evil ways when they saw God working powerfully through Paul in Ephesus. God is all powerful; He has told us: "I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things" (Isaiah 45:7). Nothing like a jolt of real fear to bring about confession and repentance. Living a life as a follower of Christ removes the fear of God's judgment. So, why don't more people choose a relationship with Christ and fall in line behind Him? We live in a culture of self-gratification. We want the biggest, the best, and the most and we want it right now. The devil knows this and he uses our self-indulgent desires to lure us into a stupefied sense of "all's right in my world," while we become anesthetized to the evil permeating our life. That is, until God demonstrates His presence and we fall on our faces in fear, asking for forgiveness. "The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work" (1 John 3:8). The answer is Jesus; it's always been Jesus. Get in line behind Him.