Daily devotion – To show His love for us….
This morning do you know that God loves you? The Bible tells us over and over that He does. Why? Somehow, we in our frailty and our selfishness, we miss the extent of just how much God does indeed love each of us!
“Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” – Ephesians 5:2
The death of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is not only the demonstration of God’s love for us, but it is also the supreme expression of Jesus’ own love for all who receive His love as their treasure.
The early Church suffered and witnessed for Christ because they had been captured by the fact, that Christ love them and gave Himself for them. They each took the self-giving act of Christ’s sacrifice very personally. They said – “He loved ME. He gave Himself for ME!”
This is surely the way we should understand the sufferings and death of our Lord. They have to do with me. They are about Christ’s love for me personally.
It is MY sin that cuts me off from God, not sin in general.
It is my hard-heartedness and spiritual numbness that demean the worth of Christ.
All I can do is plead for mercy.
But then I see Jesus’ suffering and dying for ME. It says, “Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her.” – Ephesians 5:25. “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends.” – John 15:13.
“The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” – Matthew 20:28.
How many you ask? Are you one amongst the many? May I belong to His Church? The Bible gives us the answer – “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.” – Acts 16:31.
“Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.” – Romans 10:13.
My heart is moved, and I embrace the beauty and the bounty of Jesus Christ as my personal treasure. The Son of God’s love is for me…….and for you. If you will receive it and acknowledge it.
He loved me and gave Himself for me!
He paid the highest price possible to give me the greatest gift possible.
John 17: 24 – “Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given Me, may be with Me where I am, to see My glory.”
2022, a New Year, for you to experience to know that God, the Creator of the Universe, loves you!