Steps To Peace With God
Steps To Peace With God
Steps To Peace With God
Step One
God's Purpose: Peace and Life
God loves you and wants you to experience peace and life--abundant and eternal.
"We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 5:1
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16
"I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." John 10:10
Why don't most people have this peace and abundant life that God planned for us to have?
Illustration by Andrew Wright
Step Two
God created us in His own image to have an abundant life. He did not make us as robots to
automatically love and obey Him. God gave us a will and a freedom of choice.
We chose to disobey God and go our own willful way. We still make this choice today. This
results in separation from God.
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 6:23
Our Attempts to Reach God
People have tried in many ways to bridge this gap between themselves and God...
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death." Proverbs 14:12
"But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you,
so that he will not hear." Isaiah 59:2
Step Three
Jesus Christ died on the Cross and rose from the grave. He paid the penalty for our sin and
bridged the gap between God and people.
"For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ." 1
Timothy 2:5
"For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God." 1
Peter 3:18
"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for
us." Romans 5:8
God has provided the only way. Each person must make a choice.
Illustration by Andrew Wright
Step Four
We must trust Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and receive Him by personal invitation.
"Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will
come in and eat with him, and he with me." Revelation 3:20
"Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become
children of God." John 1:12
"That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised
Him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9
I know that I am a sinner and need Your forgiveness. I believe that You died for my sins. I want
to turn from my sins. I now invite You to come into my heart and life. I want to trust and follow
You as Lord and Savior.
"Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Romans
10:13
Did you sincerely ask Jesus Christ to come into your life? Where is He right now? What has He
given you?
"For it is by grace you have been saved through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift
of God--not by works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2:8,9
"He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of
God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in
the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have
eternal life." 1 John 5:12-13
This is just the beginning of a wonderful new life in Christ. To deepen this relationship you
should:
If you've just made this commitment to Christ, further spiritual help and information
about being a Christian is available at Billy Graham's Web site:
http://www.billygraham.org Go there.