“No one has ever seen
God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest
relationship with the Father, has made him known.”
John 1:18
No more perfect image
of the Father has ever been revealed to man than that which Jesus showed us. As
we look and listen to Jesus the Father’s image comes most clearly into view.
Sometimes the church
is accused of being a poor representation of God’s love.
The truth is,
sometimes we are.
Jesus never was.
He perfectly revealed
every aspect of His Father.
His showed us the
Father’s love, His mercy, His compassion and His plan of redemption for all of
us.
Never once did Jesus
speak of bombings, beheadings or beatings to be carried out by His disciples in
His Name.
Those who view the God
of the Bible as no different from the gods of man-made religions do so because
they fail to see the redemptive heart of God.
They do so out of a
reluctance to surrender their lives as well as their lifestyles to the Lordship
of Jesus Christ.
But even in their
rebellion, the command Jesus gave us was to love them, to extend His grace and
His mercy to them.
The day will come
when each of us is judged based on what we did with Jesus Christ.
Did we make Him Lord
or did we make Him leave?
Did we embrace the
love of the Father as revealed through the Son or did we push Him away content
to live our own way and our own will?
Renew your commitment
today to be one who, in the midst of a troubled world,
makes Him known!
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