Giving Your Life to Jesus

Giving your life to Jesus is like joining a team that’s guaranteed to win. In Cameroon, there were great soccer teams like Canon Yaounde and Tonnerre. In the 1970’s, these teams always had the guarantee to win and to remain on top of the soccer league.

The players in these teams, however, did not go to sleep and forget they had to face weaker teams, who were always looking for ways to bring them down. They tried to improve their training facilities, and trained even harder than the weaker teams.

When they did make a mistake, a weak team would defeat them, and there would be so much ado about it. When they returned to their principles, they would again win.

Being a Christian is much the same way. You know you are in the team that is guaranteed to win, as long as the players don’t falter. You have to keep alert and always give the opponent the right punches, while you watch out for his, else you may sustain severe injuries, and be carried off the ring. It will take you time to bounce back after serious medical care.

I want you to understand that a player, who is careless, even in a good team, can sustain injuries, such that the said player might never play again. You see why we need to keep fighting to keep our victory. Can you also imagine the allies having won the 2nd World War, kept their weapons in a 1945 state, and refused to train or improve their weapons and soldiers because they had won the war? They would have been in a very sorry state right now.

Remember, the Word says only those who endure to the end will be saved. As a new convert or Christian you have to daily fellowship with God in studying the Word of God, in prayer, and in fasting. You will also practice sharing your faith with others. This is so that your spiritual muscle is strengthened to withstand the devil.

You also need to fellowship with others in church so that you will encourage others with your testimonies and also be encouraged by theirs according to Hebrews 10:25 (KJV).

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.