Christ the Savior

Have you ever been told to accept Jesus because he is the best friend you will ever have? Or that He will make you life better, and you career and relationships will improve? If you accepted the Savior based on that, you may have accepted Him for the wrong reason. Do you wonder why when you asked Him in, He didn't stay there?
First we need to ask, "Why do I need a Savior? - "What do we need saving from?" You may have heard that you need Jesus so you don't go to Hell. You may wonder "why would I go to Hell, I am not that bad, I care about people, I am kind, sure I have done bad, but the good surely out weighs the bad".
To find out we need to go all the way back to the 10 commandents, the Law, God's law, His standard for conduct.
Lets take the "good person test". Have you ever told a lie? Even one? What does that make you? A liar. Have you ever stolen anything? even a small thing, once? A theif.
"You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another" Lev 19:11
Have you ever taken the Lords name in vain? said "Oh my G*d"! You use the Lord's name, the one who gave you life as a word of disgust.
That is 3 of the 10, we all have broken at least these if not all.
You may say, "well I never killed anyone" Have you hated? Jesus said if you hate someone, you have commited murder in your heart.
We broke the law, all of us have, the right and just thing is to have justice. A good jude wouldn't let a criminal go because he seemed like a "nice person", the law must privale, and things made right.
So that is why we deserve Hell. We all do, it is the right thing.
BUT since we couldn't save ourselves, no one can be "good enough". God in his loving kindness came and paid the fine, "The wages of sin , is death" He died in your place, took the punishment for YOUR sin. Now if you repent (means turn away, don't do it anymore) and trust in Jesus, make him your Lord ( he calls the shots) and receive the gift of Him on the cross. Then you will be saved!
This is the Savior! This is why he came and died for you, not so you can have a cool job or nice relationships, so he can save you from the place you could not save yourself from.
So when you see the cross, remember your God the one that created you, came down, lived as a man, lived a perfect blameless life, took on your sin.
What a marvelous, loving and amazing God. We deserve hell, but he made a way out, He saved us.
Put your trust in him, turn from your sin, serve him.
Gods goal is not so you can have a wonderful life (just read Pauls story) His goal is to conform you into the image of His Son, to restore a right relationship with you, to live in all eternity with Him.
When we have Him, we have everything, the world can melt away, and it would even matter because we have Jesus our Savior, the lover of our soul, blessed redeemer.
Bow down at his feet, worship Him, love Him and serve Him.
This is JESUS THE SAVIOR!