Daily devotion – the wonder of salvation
There are times when I am overwhelmed with the wonder of our Lord. Sitting at my desk, reading His Word and preparing for the week’s teaching, I often find myself simply staggered at God’s love for us.
Our Heavenly Father gave His only Son, Jesus Christ, to come into a world that man had ruined by his own stupidity and selfishness!
Yet, God the Father did not cast us aside. Instead, He loved us, exhausting Heaven of His Son’s life and having Jesus become a man and suffer humiliation, insult, pain and death. All for us!
Each week, as I look to the following Sunday to be in Church, my heart is softened and overflowing with gratitude. I deserve nothing but judgment, and yet God gives me His grace. A grace that I do not deserve!
All this raises a great dilemma in my mind, and that is how anyone could not be wholly engaged with God for their whole life and all they have.
Marriage in the Bible is a picture of the relationship Christ and His Church are to have. The Book of Ephesians, in chapter 5, goes through this in great detail. The role of the husband, the role of the wife and the role of the Church and its relationship with Jesus Christ, its Saviour and Lord.
It is 2024, and the Rapture is sooner than any time in history. As we read Paul’s epistles, the early Church lived with the constant hope of the soon return of Jesus for them.
It’s 2024, and sadly, as the Bible predicted, the world is just like it was in the days of Noah before the great Flood.
People still are not moved by the power, love and grace of God today as back then.
I know that this Sunday I can’t wait to gather with the body of Jesus Christ, His Church, and praise our Lord and hear His wonderful Word taught once again.
The day is fast approaching when all this will end for us here on earth, and we will find ourselves in the place we have read about for years, Heaven, standing before the God who created the world in which we now live!
2 Peter 3: 11 Since everything around us is going to be destroyed like this, what holy and godly lives you should live, 12 looking forward to the day of God and hurrying it along. On that day, he will set the heavens on fire, and the elements will melt away in the flames. 13 But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness.
14 And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to be found living peaceful lives that are pure and blameless in his sight.
My prayer for you is that you, too, will be overwhelmed by God’s love for you and that your heart will burst within and overflow with gratitude and passion to serve Him and love Him with every breath you have until He calls you to Himself in glory!