Practical Wisdom Personal Challenge Unshakable Hope
Faith Matters is a two minute program heard on dozens of stations across the country. Each weekday your host, Leith Anderson, shares an inspiring and practical message of hope, encouragement and challenge showing why 'living by faith' can be the most stretching, fulfilling and rewarding experience you will ever have.
People who are searching must realize three things:
- They fall short of God’s standard of perfection.
“For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23 - They face God’s penalty of eternal separation.
"For the wages of sin is death (eternal separation), but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23 - They fail to enjoy God’s love.
"But you iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, so that He does not hear." Isaiah 59:2
Picture yourself with all of humanity lined up at the rim of a canyon. The only way to get across the one-mile chasm is to jump. The distance you can jump is directly proportional to how many good deeds you have performed.
A mass murderer jumps only one foot and plummets downward. If you are an exceptionally good person, you may be able to jump 25 feet. But this is still short of the goal.
One by one they try, but fall short of the other side. In the same way, even though some people perform more good deeds than others, all of us fall short of perfection.
