MONDAY April 14th
We will spend the next few devotions contemplating some of the Easter story, starting with some verses from 1 John 4:9-10
‘In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.’
As we commence this week leading up to Good Friday, it is good that we remind ourselves as to what the death and the resurrection of Jesus was all about, it was all about Jesus becoming the One who would pay the ultimate price for us as sinners to be forgiven. In his letter to Timothy, Paul wrote these words, ‘The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost’, 1 Timothy 1:15.
Mankind has a problem, and it is the problem of sin, we are all born as sinners, we are all born worthy of death, for the wages of sin is death. Romans 3:23, 6:23.
But thankfully God had a solution, a solution that was prepared even before the creation of the world, and it was that he would give to and send to this world, his only Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. John 3:16
And in coming into this world, Jesus through his atoning death, will save all who would come to believe on him.
The redemption story is the greatest story that has ever been told, but more than that it was played out for real throughout the passage of time as Jesus came into this world as a baby, grew up as a man and willingly went to Calvary to atone for our sin. It is a true story; it is a powerful story, and it is a life transforming story.
May we be enthralled again as we contemplate all that Christ has done for us, remembering that he willingly suffered to bring about your pardon, my pardon from all our sin, so that in coming to know him we can know what it is to be forgiven, restored and reconciled to God. He took my sins and my sorrows, he made them his very own, he bore the burden to Calvary and suffered and died alone.