March 29
We look around us and we ‘assess’ people. We weigh the ‘pluses’ and the ‘minuses’ of their lives and we esteem them to be due our respect or disrespect, depending upon their achievements, their character, their ‘goodness’ in our eyes. God doesn’t. The Bible tells us that “He is no respecter of persons” Colossians 3:25.
That is not to say there is no weighing of a man before God. The God who is of “purer eyes than to behold evil…” Habakkuk 1:13 is so profoundly aware of evil and its consequences for mankind that Christ came to die in man’s behalf—and by taking man’s sentence of death upon His sinless person—to free man forever from sin’s penalty.
When Jesus came to be the Savior of the World, He did not ‘make a list and check it twice to see who was naughty or nice’; He did not agree to die for some but not for others. He, unlike us, does not assess any man’s worthiness to have a Savior. When He left the glory of Heaven, He came for all.
Jesus has paid the price for the redemption of everyone who has ever or will ever live, without regard to any man’s worth. I Timothy 2:3, 4 tells us, “God our Savior…wants all men to be saved and come to a knowledge of truth.” Whether a man comes to that knowledge or does not is entirely in his own hands, completely in his own will.
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