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We have Jesus, and he is the bread of life. He supremely satisfies, and satisfies for ever. Praise God! So concludes Ajith Fernando in his Urbana 93 presentation The Bread of Life. As a young follwer of Christ, Ajith's words pointed me in a helpful direction with regard to submitting my whole life to the I AM. When reviewing his talk today, I found the below thoughts on the Fall, of particular interest.

At the fall what Adam and Eve did was to eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. They said "we will decide for ourselves what is good and what is evil; we will rule our lives." Instead of trusting in God to save them they trusted in themselves. And we have followed in their train and done the same.

Now the gospel of Jesus says, "God has provided a way of escape for you. Don't try to save yourselves by your good works like Adam and Eve did. Entrust yourself to Jesus. He has done what is necessary to forgive your sin. Stop trying to run your life and entrust yourself to him, and he will save you and give you eternal life."

After you receive eternal life, your will life will be oriented in a different way; you will have a new strength from God, so you can live a new life and work out your faith by deeds of love and holiness.

I wonder whether there is someone here who is still ruling your life. You may be doing a lot of good works, but you are lost, you do not have eternal life. Entrust yourself to Jesus. Tell him that you are going to stop trying to save yourself, and that you wish to avail yourself of what Christ won for you at the Cross. And you will become a new person, a child of God. So that is the work that God requires: we must believe in Jesus.

Father, grant me the grace to entrust my life to you today.