OCTOBER 20
THE FATHER SENT HIS SON
1 John 4:14
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world. (WEB)
In today's Bible verse, the Apostle John repeats a beloved verse that has been quoted millions of times worldwide, which is found in John 3:16... For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, so that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. (WEB)
For John, who was Jesus' closest friend, there was no mistaking who sent Jesus into the world. It was His Father. God Himself initiated our plan of salvation, and Jesus gladly yielded to His Father's will.
It's remarkable how many people still see God as distant and angry. For whatever reasons they have, they fail to see that it was the Father Himself who sent His Son into the world because of His great love for humanity. It was the Father who asked His beloved Son to exchange His life for ours. It was the Father who suffered unlike any other father has ever suffered when He watched Jesus take upon Himself the sin of the entire world.
When we see the high price our Father paid for our redemption, we have no other choice but to respond to His love. That is what the Apostle Paul tells us in Romans 8:32 when he writes... He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also with him freely give us all things? (WEB).
My prayer today is that we all recognize the price our Heavenly Father paid when He sent His Son to be the Savior of the world. He did not send Him to judge us but to save us. I am so grateful that Jesus willingly obeyed His Father's will so we could be reconciled to God. May the Holy Spirit reveal more of the eternal love that motivated Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection.
God is not angry with us. He loves us with an everlasting love. The eternal plan for our salvation originated in His heart and was carried out by our glorious Brother, King, and Savior... our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:18-21
18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (WEB)
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world. (WEB)
In today's Bible verse, the Apostle John repeats a beloved verse that has been quoted millions of times worldwide, which is found in John 3:16... For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, so that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. (WEB)
For John, who was Jesus' closest friend, there was no mistaking who sent Jesus into the world. It was His Father. God Himself initiated our plan of salvation, and Jesus gladly yielded to His Father's will.
It's remarkable how many people still see God as distant and angry. For whatever reasons they have, they fail to see that it was the Father Himself who sent His Son into the world because of His great love for humanity. It was the Father who asked His beloved Son to exchange His life for ours. It was the Father who suffered unlike any other father has ever suffered when He watched Jesus take upon Himself the sin of the entire world.
When we see the high price our Father paid for our redemption, we have no other choice but to respond to His love. That is what the Apostle Paul tells us in Romans 8:32 when he writes... He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also with him freely give us all things? (WEB).
My prayer today is that we all recognize the price our Heavenly Father paid when He sent His Son to be the Savior of the world. He did not send Him to judge us but to save us. I am so grateful that Jesus willingly obeyed His Father's will so we could be reconciled to God. May the Holy Spirit reveal more of the eternal love that motivated Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection.
God is not angry with us. He loves us with an everlasting love. The eternal plan for our salvation originated in His heart and was carried out by our glorious Brother, King, and Savior... our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:18-21
18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (WEB)