October 2
There is a stark contrast between the love of God and the love of man. God’s love gives; man’s love expects. God loved us while we were yet sinners—thieves, murderers, cheats, liars, betrayers, adulterers, idolaters—we didn’t have to clean up our act before He loved us. He loved us at our worst; man loves only our best.
In the gospel that bears his name, the beloved apostle tells us, “God so loved the world He gave His only Son that whosoever believes in Him may not perish but have everlasting life,” John 3:16. Anyone who assents to the propitiatory life, death, and resurrection of Jesus receives God’s incomparable gift of eternal life.
The Holy One makes no demands of us. He doesn’t require us to set our house in order before He will save us. He doesn’t necessitate our self-transformation before He will extend His mighty arm to extract us from the pit of sin into which we’ve fallen. No. He asks only that we believe.
A cursory investigation of the pages of history will affirm to us that Jesus lived, and that He did what the Bible says of Him. From the ancient historian Josephus to modern-day archaeological discoveries, the secrets hidden in the earth attest to the veracity of the life of a Savior who loves man and comes to set him free from bondage to sin and death. His love far excels our own!
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