Because He Loves

April 22

Our Lord comes to us with amazing gifts in His outstretched hands. He is not like the false gods of the world who impose stringent demands upon anyone who seeks mercy. No, the One True and Living Savior is generous—He is generous, He is giving, He is forgiving, He is patient, He is kind—because He loves.

The gods who are fabricated in the minds of desperate men who long to please the deity they do not know and whom they fear, are wrathful and demanding. Their ire is easily raised against the non-compliant. And when their fury is unleashed, the object of the whirlwind of their wrath is caught in its gale-like force and swept away by it!

Can we fault the adherent to faith in such a god when he performs inhuman atrocities against his fellow man? Can we wonder at his willingness to be used in wanton cruelty when we realize the unspeakable horror that he fears will be his punishment if he does not! We know an amazing transformation can occur in the life of such a one if he can hear the truth of God’s love for him; if he can see the revelation of who God really is—by seeing the love of Christ! How can he see? How can he call on Christ to save him if he hasn’t heard of Him?

The Word says he cannot if there is no preacher (see Romans 10:14) SO LET US PROCLAIM HIS LOVE! Once he knows Christ’s love and calls on the Lord, the vilest of men will be renewed in the inner man, for Jesus has said, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives…” Luke 11:9, 10, for our God is no respecter of persons (see Colossians 3:25). He extends His gift of salvation to all who will receive it.