January 22
A great theologian was once asked the most profound truth he had learned in his life-long study of the Word of God. His answer was, “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” And so it is. Apart from that one precious revelation of the heart of God, nothing else matters.
The love of Jesus is the springboard of every temporal blessing. Even the unbelieving sinner reaps the benefit of that love, for our God allows good things into the lives of the just and the unjust. What some see as a reward for following Christ is really the mercy of God extended to the entirety of mankind.
And the statement that conveys the pervasiveness of His love and salvation extended to all who will receive it is most clearly stated in John 3:16 where we are told, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.”
If we can grasp the magnitude of that assertion, we can be transformed from mere temporal life within a tabernacle of flesh to eternal life that sets our spirit free to soar into the heavenly place where we may commune with our loving Savior! In that place with Him we will see beyond time to our place in eternity.
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