Saturday Reading: John 3:16-17
Key Verse: John 3:17
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.
Devotion:
We may well be forgiven for looking back in our Old Testaments and thinking that our God is a God who has come to destroy all that is bad in this world and lift up all that is good. But if we were to stick by those principals then should we not already be part of the dust from whence we came? If we truly do believed that our God was a vengeful God then we should have no hope from the first time that we realise that we have done something wrong – because that is when we should find out that we are undone!
Thankfully Jesus reminded us all that he did not come to destroy all the wicked people but rather came to try and turn their minds away from their wicked ways and show them a truth that would allow them to be able to come to Him in peace. He has not turned His back on anyone but rather has come to give every one of us the chance to turn back to Him. We are the ones who have turned our backs on God in the beginning by making some pretty bad choices in our lives; we do not have to live with those choices because Christ came so that we could change our minds.
Yes there are going to be repercussions for the things that we do do and have done in our lives, but that should not exclude us from the kingdom of God. The only thing that will exclude us is our continued unbelief in the truth! Without that saving knowledge we are truly lost and have no way of finding our way back to Him. But through what Christ has done for us, we can find our way back to God and we can be forgiven for what we have done. It is a very simple choice to make, but may not be an easy choice for us because of the way that we live. Making that choice means turning our backs on our past wrongdoings, the things which we may well have held up high as our goals in life, things that we may well have though should be what we aim for.
God’s ways and the worlds ways are not the same. God’s ways are taught to us through His Son and through His Word. We choose…
Points to Ponder:
Do you choose the world or God?
Are you ready to trust God totally?