God’s love is unfathomable
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:6-8 NIV)
Nevertheless, He loves them
The Lord is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made. The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing. (Psalm 145:9,15–16 ESV)
He is the brilliance of the Father
He (Jesus) is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of His nature, and He upholds the universe by the word of His power.” (Hebrews 1:3 ESV)
God is righteous in His nature
God is the Rock; His works are perfect, and all His ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong; upright and just is He. Deuteronomy 32:4
Moral accountability
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. (James 4:17 KJV)
We will live forever
So that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 1:7 -8 ESV)
The essence of sin
God, in His love for humankind, made a way for humans to be forgiven, to be reconciled with Him, and to be spared from His wrath.
A loving relationship with Him
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV)
God greatly rejoices
This devotional explores God's immense joy when sinners repent and challenges you to actively share the gospel with those in need of His love and salvation.
We can embrace it when it comes
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me. (Psalm 23:4 KJV)
We should value it so highly that…
The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls. (Matthew 13:45 KJV)
I will never, ever forsake you
For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. (1 John 5:4 NLT)
As believers we have salvation and forgiveness
I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. (John 11:25–26 ESV)
God gives us victory over fear
I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. (Psalm 34:4 ESV)
There isn’t any other way
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. (1 Peter 2:24 ESV)
His wish was
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16 ESV)
Jesus experienced emotions as we do
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15 ESV)
But the Christian life is not to be lived in the natural
See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone. (1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV)
It is achieved through God’s grace
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:2 ESV)
This gift was unlike anything I’d ever experienced
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. (1 John 4:10 ESV)