Tuesday 7 Nov 2017

November 7: John 3:14-18

Key Verse: John 3:17
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Devotion:
I would guess the most common reason for people not believing in God is that they know nothing about Him; but there are those who know a little and use what they think they know against Him. Maybe they realise there is a God, yet blame Him for everything that goes wrong. Maybe they think He does not care about them because they are insignificant. Maybe they just don't want to believe 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 God created us and He loves us. He loves us so much 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 Christ was a blasphemer, but the truth is 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 who took the first leap! That is why we have to come to the realisation of exactly what Christ has done for us. He is the one who has made it possible to be rescued. He is the one who has given us the choice. He is the one who came to earth so 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 we could be saved from eternal death and it is only through Him we can be saved. The only thing He requires is that we believe it to be so. It’s impossible to 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 who jumped. It is our choice.

Points to Ponder:
Do you like putting off choices?

Does God know your choice?