Behold,
I stand at the door, and knock: if anyone hears my voice and opens the door,
I will come in to them, and be with them, and they with me. --Jesus Rev 3:20
--(paraphrased slightly).
I
believe in Christ like I believe in the sun, not because I see it but because
by it I see everything." -- C.S. Lewis
If
God is for us, who can be against us? If God did not spare his own Son, but
gave him up for us all--will he not, along with him, graciously give us all
things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God
who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more than that,
who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding
for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship
or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:
"For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to
be slaughtered." No for in all these things we are more than conquerors
through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither
angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither
height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate
us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans
8:31-39
"For
me, to live is Christ. to die is Gain."