He came that we might have life, and have it more abundantly. Jesus knows all about you. He loves you with an everlasting love that reaches into the deepest parts of your soul. There is no shadow of turning with this love. It is pure, even as He is pure. It is unconditional, and it is eternal.
We don’t experience love like this in this world. For we live in a frail and fallen world where sorrows abound like sea billows roll. People let us down, and we let ourselves down. Everyone is hurting in some form or another. We all experience pain, disappointment and heartbreak. But there is one that will never let us down or let us go, if we will receive Him and put in Him our trust.
Jesus, the Son of God, is our blessed hope. He said to us, ” in this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world.” He has overcome all our sorrow and all our tears. He has swallowed up death, our death, in victory. He has made a way for us to spend eternity in heaven with Him, and though we could never earn so precious a gift, He has paid the ultimate price to make it possible for each one of us, through His own death burial and resurrection on the cross. This act on His part has paid our sin debt. It has made possible the gift of eternal life with Him forever. How do we receive this gift? By faith. By placing all of our faith, hope and trust in the person of Jesus Christ, in His mercy. John 6:40 says ” verily verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” It is a gift, it is a person, it is a blessed hope. It is for everyone.
He loves you. He came to give you life and abundant life at that. It is a gift. His gift, to you. Sin has ravaged and destroyed mankind. Our human souls suffer from this blight and the whole world lieth in wickedness, the Bible says. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. He came to set you and I free from the awesome penalty of death that we have all earned. He came to quicken us, and give us everlasting life. Will you trust Him to set you free?
Sarah Hopkins Art 