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Saturday... We are so into our rights today.


Saturday... We are so into our rights today. We really are. But here is a right that really matters.

Revelations 22:14 (AMP) says, "Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) are those who wash their robes [in the blood of Christ by believing and trusting in Him - the righteous who do His commandments] so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city." Now that is the right that I am living for.

You may remember the story in Genesis of Adam and Eve. God had created them and He had placed in the middle of the Garden of Eden where they lived, two trees. One was the tree of life which if they ate from it they would live forever. He also placed the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and He told them to not eat from it and if they did they would die. But they were tempted by Satan to eat from it and they did. And because they did, God ran them out of the Garden and placed an angel with a sword to keep them from the Garden so they couldn't eat from the tree of life. They lost the right to eat from that tree so they would die. And that's how death came into the world. 

Death wasn't God's plan. Eternal life was and still is. So He set out to make it possible for us to win back the right to eat from the tree of life and live forever but we had to live out His requirements to earn the right to eat from that tree. And that is what Revelation 22:14 is talking about. And that is a right that I am living my life to receive. 

Again Revelations 22:14 (AMP) says, "Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) are those who wash their robes [in the blood of Christ by believing and trusting in Him - the righteous who do His commandments] so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city." And you too can earn that right. You just need to believe and put your trust in Jesus Christ and to live a righteous life and  do what He says. Jesus through His death and resurrection has earned back that right for us. 

And that is a right that really matters and I want that right. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


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