Only One? Really?

For many years I have tried to be open minded to how one comes to God. You know many ways, one Lord but I don't want to wishy washy any longer. There is one way to the Father, one way to eternal life- there is one God and one great blood sacrifice. You cannot deny the need of the payment for our debt. Have you ever been the victim of a crime, either small or large it doesn't matter, your very soul longs for restitution. You want someone to restore life to how it was before. If we, being merely human, long for a sacrifice to atone wrongs committed against us- how much more will the divine maker desire restoration? God desires it so desperately that He pays the debt for us. He paid what was stolen from Him already in order to restore what was rightfully His in the first place. Now that is what I call a gift. But gifts aren't gifts until they are claimed. How sad it must make the Creator when He sees us open email scams promising free gifts we need simply to claim. Millions have lost money and identity claiming false gifts that offered nothing while an eternal gift sits unclaimed in front of them. How sad that in our arrogance we fail to see that we are only here because of His desire to commune with us. We are not even grains of sand in the universe and yet He pursues us. Have you ever stopped to think about what would happen if you took the gift at face value? What if you claimed it as yours, believing all that went with it? What if like a child you put "dibs" on what God was giving you and cherished it like a prize? Blind trust that God is who He says He is, that He has done what the Word says He has done, that He is going to do what He promised He would. What would happen if you chose to believe - He would prove Himself. He would show you that your faith is not misguided. He would reveal Himself to you. You would be so overwhelmed by who He is, what He has done for you, and what He wants from you that you would become active for Him. You would be on mission to tell the world about Him, to reveal Him to anyone willing to listen and respond. There are some who on occassion read my ramblings who are shutting down now(or gearing up a whole come back comment that shows me all the errors in my thinking). To each of you, I ask this one question...what if you knew that at the end of reading this blog you would be faced with your moment of death. What would that change for you? Would you risk what comes next on the possibility that I am wrong or would you heed the ache in your heart that you have never been able to fill. That still small voice that is calling you in this moment whispering that what I am saying is true. I hope that not one of you have to face that moment of clarity when you can't go back and all of eternity stretches in front of you before you make a choice. I want more than anything for each of you to come to a realization that God is and was and will always be. But sadly, I know that life is short and our hours are numbered. We spend them filled with things that lack eternity. We pursue things that mean everything in the moment and nothing when we are gone. He is standing ready to give you the gift if you want to claim it. It is the one way to rest in His arms like a babe at her mother's breast. Don't spend another hour on the temporal when the eternal is yours for the claiming.