Do you want what you deserve?

© 2015 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

We don’t deserve God’s love!  Understanding this reveals the incredible nature of His love!

God created us as well as many creatures we don’t like.  We destroy roaches and ticks, which are loathsome to us, just because of what they are.  Yet we tend to feel it would be unfair of God to destroy us just because of what we are.  We don’t understand that our sinfulness makes us far more loathsome to God than ticks and roaches are to us.  All who have froward (perverse) hearts are an abomination to Him.

“They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight” (Proverbs 11:20).

Sadly, frowardness, not uprightness, has permeated each human being born since man’s fall in the Garden of Eden.  Only God’s un-deserved salvation can make a person “upright.”

“… by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:…  For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” (Romans 5:12, 19, see also Genesis 3:1-24).

God would have been perfectly righteous not to save anyone!  In fact, He didn’t save any of the angels who fell.

“And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day” (Jude 1:6).

How wonderful it is, then, to read the following words of God the Son, Jesus the Savior, who shed His blood at Calvary to “save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

Christian:  Do you understand the incredible love God has shown you in breathing life into your dead heart?  Are you presenting the reality of this love to the unsaved friends and enemies around you?

Dear unsaved person:  Search God’s Word for the truth which can burden your heart to repent and to ask for His undeserved mercy!  God’s Word is His conduit of hearing and faith.

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).

 

 

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