Wednesday Reading: John 3:14-18
Key Verse: John 3:17
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Devotion:
I would guess that the most common reason for people not believing in God is that they know nothing about Him, but there are those that know a little and use that against Him. Maybe they realise that there is a God, yet blame Him for everything that goes wrong. Maybe they think that He does not care about them because they are insignificant. Maybe they just don't want to believe that it can all be so easy and they want to find the most unbelievable story to explain things. Maybe they think it is all a conspiracy...
Key Verse: John 3:17
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Devotion:
I would guess that the most common reason for people not believing in God is that they know nothing about Him, but there are those that know a little and use that against Him. Maybe they realise that there is a God, yet blame Him for everything that goes wrong. Maybe they think that He does not care about them because they are insignificant. Maybe they just don't want to believe that it can all be so easy and they want to find the most unbelievable story to explain things. Maybe they think it is all a conspiracy...
But the plain and simple truth is that God created us and He loves us. He loves us so much that He was willing to send His Son to die for us. How could He demonstrate His love in any better way in human eyes? Many people start to blame Christ for things or to say that Christ was a blasphemer, but the truth is that He is the Son of God and He came to give us all the chance to be saved from our sins.
Despite our best intentions, our lives very quickly get overtaken by our sinful deeds and minds and we jump straight into the fire. We don't see it coming and by the time we jump, it is too late. It is nobody else's fault other than our own – we are the ones that took that first leap! That is why we have to come to the realisation of exactly what Christ has done for us. He is the one that has made it possible to be rescued. He is the one that has given us the choice. He is the one that came to earth so that we could be saved from ourselves. He did not come down to set blame on anyone, nor to condemn us all because of the sinful lives we live. He came so that we could be saved and it is through Him that we are saved. The only thing that He requires is that we believe it to be so. We cannot not make a choice because we have already chosen sin. We still have a choice to come back to Him. If we don't believe, then we go down like the rest because we are the ones that jumped. It is our choice.
Points to Ponder:
Do you like putting off choices?
Does God know you choice?
Do you like putting off choices?
Does God know you choice?