The Four Spiritual Laws

As I was preparing for a discussion a couple weeks ago, I came across the Bill Bright's Four Spiritual Laws which were introduced in 1952 as part of the Campus Crusade for Christ program.  These Spiritual Laws or truths spoke to me and aligned with Christ's working in me regarding the word "Receive" .  Over the last month I have been reminded over and over that I am to receive from God and these laws are truths which I need to receive and share with others.

The Four Spiritual Laws are:

1. God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life. (John 3:16, John 10:10)
2. Man is sinful and separated from God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience God's love and plan for his life. (Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23)
3. Jesus Christ is God's only provision for man's sin. Through Him you can know and experience God's love and plan for your life. (Romans 5:8,I Corinthians 15:3-6, John 14:6)
4. We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan for our lives. (John 1:12, Ephesians 2:8,9, John 3:1~8, Revelation 3:20)

God's love and plan for us is a gift which He wants us to experience and enjoy as we walk each day in this crazy, confused world.  God gives us this gift in Jesus Christ and when we turn to Christ and invite Him into our hearts, God's love and His plan is available and calling us to Him.  Jesus is God's gift which we must receive or we will never experience our Father's love and never live the plan He desires for us.

Sin is the alternative to Jesus.  If we choose to live a life which is contrary to God's plan, a life of sin, we will never experience His love and the joy and peace that He desires for us.  Jesus came to overcome sin and to offer Himself as a sacrifice for us so that we do not have to experience the separation from God's love and a life of being lost and without purpose.

Every day, we need to receive the truth that God loves us and has a plan for us, which He reveals through His Spirit, abiding in us when we receive Jesus as our Lord.