Today’s Devotion
Topic: He First Loved Us!
Text: 1 John 4: 19
19 We love because He first loved us. Amen
It gets very tempting sometimes to feel God has not been doing enough to merit all the much that we do for Him. “How is it that we pray and fast, labour and suffer, give and spend for the sake of the gospel yet, God wouldn’t take care of everything we desire? We lament.
In the face of adversity, we lose patience with God. We would rather look for alternatives than to wait on Him. Our reason? He is not doing as much as we do for Him.
Well you see, the only reason we are able to love, give, care for and labour for Him is because He first loved us, and gave Himself a ransom for the propitiation of our sins. Honestly, it is this beautiful love God demonstrated that induces our own love towards Him and one another.
As a matter of fact, even if God decides to do nothing else for mankind, that special love demonstrated on the Cross is more than enough to merit our life time love-commitment to Him and mankind. For “greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15: 13).
That single act of love is responsible for our salvation, redemption, reconciliation with God, deliverance from the power of darkness and the hope of eternal glory spent with Christ. Amazing!
Jesus paid all our debt so we will owe nothing except LOVE. “He has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love his brother and sister” (1 John 4: 21). How much have we loved to justify our impatience with the Lord?
Remember where you were till the Love of Christ brought you home. A sinner, wretched and condemned as unworthy. Remember the chains that had you bound till Jesus made you free. Remember the infirmity that plagued your body till Jesus healed you. Remember how God brought you out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings (Psalm 40: 2, KJV).
Do you now see how His love come lifting when all others wouldn’t even look your way? Be grateful for JESUS and ask for grace to love Him more. Begin to pray now. Watch and be blessed: https://youtu.be/HC5707bPzw0
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