A Thrill of Hope - Week 4: Day 1
The Gift that Never Stops Giving
Our God is just and holy. One of our problems we live with daily is asking ourselves how do we get right with our God who is just and holy?
We rejoice in knowing that God is merciful and has promised in Jeremiah 31 that someday he would do something new. He would move into our lives in a powerful way, change us, and write his will on our hearts so that we are not constrained from outside, but are willing from inside, to love him and trust him and follow him whole heartedly.
What would be known as the greatest salvation is if God should offer us the greatest gift in the universe to enjoy and then move in us to know that in such a way that we could enjoy it with the greatest freedom and the greatest pleasure possible. That would be a Christmas gift worth singing about for you and your family.
He promised us even though the big obstacle remains - Our sin. Our separation from God because of our unrighteousness, unholiness…
How shall a holy and just God treat us sinners with so much kindness as to give us the greatest gift in the universe (his Son, this babe in a manger) to enjoy with the greatest possible joy?
The answer is that God put our sins on his Son. Once those sins are removed, he can deal with us mercifully and remain just and holy at the same time. Hebrews 9:28 says Christ was “offered once to bear the sins of many.”
Christ bore our sins in his own body when he died (1 Peter 2:24).
He took our judgment (Romans 8:3).
He canceled our guilt (Romans 8:1).
And that means our sins are gone (Acts 10:43).
He forgives them. They are consumed in the death of Christ and for that we rejoice.
He then gives us Jesus, the greatest gift we could ever ask for. And he writes his own will — his own heart — on our hearts so that we can love Christ and trust Christ and follow Christ from the inside out, with freedom and joy.
One of the most precious discoveries in scripture is the simple truth that Jesus becoming the “babe in a manger” was His plan since the creation of mankind and the entrance of sin. From the cradle to the cross, our forgiveness and fellowship has been planned.
How does your view of the cradle change from today’s devotion?
~ Pastor Matthew
“No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”- Jeremiah 31:34
Our God is just and holy. One of our problems we live with daily is asking ourselves how do we get right with our God who is just and holy?
We rejoice in knowing that God is merciful and has promised in Jeremiah 31 that someday he would do something new. He would move into our lives in a powerful way, change us, and write his will on our hearts so that we are not constrained from outside, but are willing from inside, to love him and trust him and follow him whole heartedly.
What would be known as the greatest salvation is if God should offer us the greatest gift in the universe to enjoy and then move in us to know that in such a way that we could enjoy it with the greatest freedom and the greatest pleasure possible. That would be a Christmas gift worth singing about for you and your family.
He promised us even though the big obstacle remains - Our sin. Our separation from God because of our unrighteousness, unholiness…
How shall a holy and just God treat us sinners with so much kindness as to give us the greatest gift in the universe (his Son, this babe in a manger) to enjoy with the greatest possible joy?
The answer is that God put our sins on his Son. Once those sins are removed, he can deal with us mercifully and remain just and holy at the same time. Hebrews 9:28 says Christ was “offered once to bear the sins of many.”
Christ bore our sins in his own body when he died (1 Peter 2:24).
He took our judgment (Romans 8:3).
He canceled our guilt (Romans 8:1).
And that means our sins are gone (Acts 10:43).
He forgives them. They are consumed in the death of Christ and for that we rejoice.
He then gives us Jesus, the greatest gift we could ever ask for. And he writes his own will — his own heart — on our hearts so that we can love Christ and trust Christ and follow Christ from the inside out, with freedom and joy.
One of the most precious discoveries in scripture is the simple truth that Jesus becoming the “babe in a manger” was His plan since the creation of mankind and the entrance of sin. From the cradle to the cross, our forgiveness and fellowship has been planned.
How does your view of the cradle change from today’s devotion?
~ Pastor Matthew
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