What's on my mind?
Well, it's how much God loves you all. It's not some kind of neo-romantique sort of thing. It is a love that sees you as you really are...right to the core. It's a love that does not mince words. It sees you where you hope no one will ever see you. This love knows you fully and loves you with a love that is not bound by time and is not due to any thing you have done or not done.
God's love for you is honest, perfect and true. There is no flaw in it. It cannot be quenched by tragedy or trial or pain or suffering. It cannot be quenched by fear or indifference or even hatred. God's love for you is complete, lacking nothing.
This love is not a set of philosophical or theological propositions. This love was incarnate and became a man, worth an infinite number of human beings...even as the artist is worth more than an infinite number of his works...God became a man because of His infinite love for the crown of His creation: humanity. Jesus Christ was the singular, unique and perfect man. There was no internal dry-rot, no envy, jealousy or pride. There was no variance from goodness found in Him. He was without human brokenness. His worth was more than an infinite number of human beings.
He was the only One who, being both God and man could stand in the place of all humanity for all time and receive in Himself the full measure of the consequence of the brokenness and rebellion of the human heart known as sin. He alone could bear the sin of the whole world and the infinite just punishment it deserved. Jesus became sin...the very state of being that separates all mankind from the life God intended us to live and know.
Jesus became sin, my sin, your sin. He bore my shame, your shame so that we would not have to be covered in it. He became sin to destroy the disease of sin. He lived the perfect life we could not live, died a death we could not die, to pay a debt we could never pay to give the life God intended us to live.
I am thinking about how much Jesus loves you...all of you. An infinite price has been paid to rescue us from the prison of self-centered-dead-ended existence. God has demonstrated His love for you and me in time, in history through the willing sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross where He settled humanity's debt, once and for all time.
I am thinking about how God has done everything necessary for you and me to be completely reconciled to Him and to enter back into life that will never end, life that can't be taken from us, life that can only become bigger never smaller.
I want all of my friends...not simply the "virtual friends" of this social media, but the one I can call by name, say "Hi!" to from my front door, pass a coffee to at Starbucks, greet in the supermarket or wave at from my car...to know this love...not merely "know about it". This love, this life is meant to be known, meant to be lived. It is a gift meant to be received. It has your name engraved on it. It is offered simply but if received will profoundly transform your living into more goodness than you can imagine.
This is not about religion. It is about the relationship you were created for. Jesus Christ did not come, live, die and be raised from the dead to establish a new world religion. He came to rescue humanity and restore us to the relationship that was shattered in Eden's garden when mankind believed the lie that we needed something more than what God had already given. The sorrow, death and decay that decision brought has been eclipsed by and consumed on our behalf by Jesus Christ.
I beg you in the name of Love, to turn and be reconciled to God. He is not angry. He is waiting for you to come home.
That's what I'm thinking about...FYI.
Well, it's how much God loves you all. It's not some kind of neo-romantique sort of thing. It is a love that sees you as you really are...right to the core. It's a love that does not mince words. It sees you where you hope no one will ever see you. This love knows you fully and loves you with a love that is not bound by time and is not due to any thing you have done or not done.
God's love for you is honest, perfect and true. There is no flaw in it. It cannot be quenched by tragedy or trial or pain or suffering. It cannot be quenched by fear or indifference or even hatred. God's love for you is complete, lacking nothing.
This love is not a set of philosophical or theological propositions. This love was incarnate and became a man, worth an infinite number of human beings...even as the artist is worth more than an infinite number of his works...God became a man because of His infinite love for the crown of His creation: humanity. Jesus Christ was the singular, unique and perfect man. There was no internal dry-rot, no envy, jealousy or pride. There was no variance from goodness found in Him. He was without human brokenness. His worth was more than an infinite number of human beings.
He was the only One who, being both God and man could stand in the place of all humanity for all time and receive in Himself the full measure of the consequence of the brokenness and rebellion of the human heart known as sin. He alone could bear the sin of the whole world and the infinite just punishment it deserved. Jesus became sin...the very state of being that separates all mankind from the life God intended us to live and know.
Jesus became sin, my sin, your sin. He bore my shame, your shame so that we would not have to be covered in it. He became sin to destroy the disease of sin. He lived the perfect life we could not live, died a death we could not die, to pay a debt we could never pay to give the life God intended us to live.
I am thinking about how much Jesus loves you...all of you. An infinite price has been paid to rescue us from the prison of self-centered-dead-ended existence. God has demonstrated His love for you and me in time, in history through the willing sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross where He settled humanity's debt, once and for all time.
I am thinking about how God has done everything necessary for you and me to be completely reconciled to Him and to enter back into life that will never end, life that can't be taken from us, life that can only become bigger never smaller.
I want all of my friends...not simply the "virtual friends" of this social media, but the one I can call by name, say "Hi!" to from my front door, pass a coffee to at Starbucks, greet in the supermarket or wave at from my car...to know this love...not merely "know about it". This love, this life is meant to be known, meant to be lived. It is a gift meant to be received. It has your name engraved on it. It is offered simply but if received will profoundly transform your living into more goodness than you can imagine.
This is not about religion. It is about the relationship you were created for. Jesus Christ did not come, live, die and be raised from the dead to establish a new world religion. He came to rescue humanity and restore us to the relationship that was shattered in Eden's garden when mankind believed the lie that we needed something more than what God had already given. The sorrow, death and decay that decision brought has been eclipsed by and consumed on our behalf by Jesus Christ.
I beg you in the name of Love, to turn and be reconciled to God. He is not angry. He is waiting for you to come home.
That's what I'm thinking about...FYI.
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