Spending Spree :D

I spent $100.70 today.
Gosh!
2 books,1 DVD series and 1 music CD.

'Taking Your Place In Christ'
'Blue Like Jazz'
'Love Life & See Good Days'
'Hillsong Ultimate Collection Volume II'

Question of the Day:
What's the difference between a Christian & non-Christian?
Answers anyone? :D
Here's my two cents worth :)

One of the major differences arises in the area of how we believe in our righteousness.
Ask the average man on the street and he'll tell you that your righteousness is based on the amount of good works or deeds that you do. This is what the world will tell you: Do good get good, do bad get beat.

I realised that God has something much better in store for us.

He took our bad so that we can receive and inherit all His good!!

In Romans 5:19 it says, 'For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.'
Do you know what that means?
It means that our righteousness is apart from our works or performance.
It is a gift, given freely to us by God!! :D
We have the righteousness of Christ in us today, because 2009 years ago the last Adam took every single sin, condemnation and punishment upon Himself. God's holy wrath and fiery judgement was poured into His body, all the way until every single last bit of it was exhausted. That was when He cried, 'IT IS FINISHED!'
The sin debt was fully paid.
Today we can only thank God for his Grace! :)
No man can boast in his own works.
We should be careful of trying to justify ourselves by going back to keeping the Law.

Galatians 2:21
I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.

Its all about Him.
The one who loved us so so much.

Everything starts in the mind.
When u start to believe that you are righteous because of the work of the Cross, you will start to live out such a life. The product of who you are now is a result of what you have been believing your whole life.

End Note: Being a Christian (Christ-follower) is actually very easy, to the point that many of us complicate things in order to make it look "right"