For Me
Friday, January 27, 2012 I lose so much of true life when I forget or ignore what it cost God to give his Son as a sacrifice for my sins. Considering all my sin how can I rest with an ungrateful spirit? Jesus willingly submitted to suffer the rejection, alienation, humiliation, and death that we're rightfully mine. While I was his enemy he gave himself as a sacrifice for my sin, dying as my substitute and surety. In him I have been given a share in the inheritance he alone deserves. What kind of love is this? Who can measure it? Who is Christ that he would be my redeemer, even mine?
"See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure." ~ 1 John 3.1-3
