God is love.
God shows His love for us in many ways.
He created us in His image after His likeness. He sustains us, God sustains all life. God created our first parents Adam and Eve and put them in the Garden of Eden to take care of it. God would come down to the Garden of Eden in the cool of the day and meet with Adam and Eve.
After Adam and Eve disobeyed and sinned, there was a breakdown in the relationship between God and man.
The Bible says, “Your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that he will not hear”. Isaiah 59:2 and ” All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Romans 3:23
God is complete Holiness and righteousness so sin and sinners cannot be in His presence.
God could have left humanity to their own devices, because God created us with a free-will. But God our heavenly Father could not stand-by and see His beloved children (His creation) be destroyed by the devil.
The devil has tried and is still trying to destroy humanity, by tempting and leading us into sin which leads to suffering and eternal death.
God had to do something to save His beloved creation.
A Pastor tells this story. He said ” One night after settling his daughter to sleep in her room, he settled in his room for the night. During the night he heard a door slam shut in the house, but somehow he did not seem bothered by it.
But when he heard the alarm go off in his daughter’s room, he jumped out of bed and ran to her room, because he thought someone was in the house and he had to go and save his daughter.
God shows His love by sending Jesus to save us. I imagine God saying to Jesus, You have to go down and save them, because there is no other way. Jesus died on the cross, He shed His precious blood to save us.
John 3:16 says For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
God does not want us to perish, Jesus came to redeem/restore us back to our Creator God and heal the relationship that sin has broken. God loves us with an unconditional everlasting love. ” He who does not love does not know God, for GOD IS LOVE.” 1 John 4:8
The Bible says “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” 2 Peter 3:9
God also shows His love for us by offering us the free gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. God wants us to live eternally with Him. The Bible says, “If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” 1 John 1:9.
God says, “I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned, and by which they have transgressed against Me.” Jeremiah 33:8
If we accept Jesus Christ as our personal Saviour and Lord , we will be saved. If we continue to sin, we will die ( eternal death.) The Bible says ” The soul that sins shall die (eternal death) Ezekiel 18:4b,
” For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23.
“Because of Adam and Eve sin and rebellion, we are all born in sin with sinful tendencies”
Jesus came to earth, died on the cross to save humanity from our sin sickness. He is coming again to receive those who have accepted Him as their personal Saviour and Lord.
Jesus says, ” Let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions, if it were not so , I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you.
” And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know” John 14:1-4
God shows His great Love for us by saving us by His grace and by offering us the free gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
A few Bible verses about God’s love.
Jeremiah 31:3 The Lord has appeared of old to me saying; Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you”
1 John 3:1 ” Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God”
Proverbs 8:17 “I will love those who love Me, and those who seek Me diligently will find Me”
Deut 6:5 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength”
John 15:9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you, abide in My love”
JESUS CHRIST, OUR SAVIOUR AND LORD IS COMING AGAIN SOON, ARE YOU READY TO MEET HIM?
The Bible says; “If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9
For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10: 10
SONG:
For God so love the world that He gave His only Son to die on Calvary’s tree, from sin to set us free, someday He’s coming back, what glory that will be. Wonderful is His love to me.
I invite you to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour and Lord. God be with you as you make this very important decision. Below is a prayer that you can say.
PRAYER:
Jesus, I accept You as my personal Saviour and Lord. I believe that You died on the cross for my sins, and that You rose again. Thank You for what You did for me on Calvary’s cross to save me. Please forgive me of all my sins and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. Thank You for the free gift of eternal life. Lord Jesus, help me to abide in You, and Your Holy word and be ready to meet You when You return. In Jesus name. Amen.
