Ten Billion Percent: Blessed Assurance


I am ten billion percent sure that you are going to love this anime recommendation! Why ten billion percent you might ask? Because I can! No in all seriousness, you are going to want to check out the anime "Dr. Stone".  Essentially, humanity has been turned to stone for almost 4,000 years and Senku (Dr. Stone) is the only one trying to restart civilization.  However, the cool part is that he is doing this by taking modern day science and applying it to a Stone Age world.  Throughout the show he has this wonderful catchphrase of "ten billion percent" that he attaches to everything that he is absolutely sure of. I love that he is absolutely sure in his knowledge of science that he is even willing to defy logic by saying he is ten billion percent sure of what he is doing.

You may remember an old hymn "Blessed Assurance" that you may have heard in your grandparents church services or records playing in the background.  This song has a wonderful connection to scripture that I think can give you that ten billion percent assurance and it is found in Hebrews 10:22-23. "let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ's blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise." The big deal here was that to enter God's space (Holy of Holies in the Old Testament) the high priest was the only one that could do that and he had to be absolutely sure (ten billion percent) that he was right with God, otherwise he would die from God's shear awesomeness/perfection. But because Jesus is the one who is our high priest that can meet with God, when we are sprinkled with his blood (choosing to be connected with and following him) we also have the blessed assurance that we can stand before God too.

Are you ten billion percent sure of your connection with Jesus that you can go about your life knowing that you are good with God and can talk to Him? Do you have the blessed assurance that God is good on His word/promises that He makes to always be with you?

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