JESUS CHRIST GAVE HIS LIFE FOR YOU

“God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” Romans 5:8. As you are absorbed in your sins and live a painful life struggling with the emptiness inside and outside you, you may doubt the love of God in your heart. You may think that the love of Jesus has decreased in your life because of your sinful activities. But the Bible says when we were sinners, Jesus died for us. That’s the love of Jesus for us.

My dear young friend, God’s love is precious and priceless. He has said “I the Lord do not change”, (Malachi 3:6). The love which He has for you is everlasting and will never change. Jesus took the cross and bore all the pain just because He thinks of you every time. He shed His own blood only because you wouldn’t have to struggle with your sins. He has given his life for you only because of His infinite love for you. Even today, Jesus loves you so much.

Why did He take the Path of Grief and Sorrows?

“But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities”. (Isaiah 53:3)

A potter made a real version of a model he had thought in his mind and cherished for a long time. After making the model of the object, he couldn’t bear to think that the object he created had no life. So he gave life to his creation and made it live and not only that he had so much love for his creation. And because of this, he gave it its own free will - a free will which also permitted the creation to leave the creator.

Soon, one day came when the creation fell in to the lustful ways of the world; it dared to leave the creator and left his care. Even though the potter had the authority to destroy the object, because of the love he had for his creation, he did not destroy it. Not only that, he also waited for his creation to come back to him. He waited with tears in his eyes and pain in his heart.

The creation was filled with all the desires and lust of the world; it left the creator and joined the only enemy of the creator, and held his hand. The enemy had great joy because the creation was tricked by him. But the potter who was the creator was in huge sorrow. The enemy decided to destroy the object as it did not have the protection of the creator and this in turn, left the creator with more pain and agony.

On one hand, the potter was in grief because the creation left him, and on the other hand he was in great sorrow because the creation was going through much pain and agony. Although the creation had left him the potter began thinking how to bring back his creation back to him. And he came to know that the only way to bring it back is to give his life for his creation. At the end what did he do? Even though his creation had left him he loved it so much as to not to see its destruction and because of this love the potter gave up his life to save his creation from destruction. The good life of the creation was far more important for the creator than his own life. Amazing is the love of the potter!!!

Beloved young men and women out there, this is the precious love that God showed at the cross of Calvary. He created you and me with clay and He gave us His own Spirit and resurrected us. He gave us His own sovereign will so that we would know what is good from evil. But we forgot this great love of God. We went for worldly desires, lust and for our own likings we separated from our creator, the Lord.

Even though, our beloved God stretches out His arms and calls us with His great love, we refuse to heed his words and love. We turned towards the evil desires. We ourselves moved away from the Gods protection. And that is when the devil brought upon us lot of problems in our lives such as diseases in our body, failures, grief and sorrows in all our works. Even in this situation God desires to recover you with His Everlasting love.

He wants to deliver us from the pain and the bondage of sin, for that He had to give His own life as a cost; He decided to sacrifice His own life for us. That is the only purpose Jesus Christ came down to this world,  endured all the sufferings, was hung on the cross, shed His blood and  gave His own life as a cost to save our lives, and made us His own people.

He loved you so much, only because of that love He went and gave His life as a cost and that way is the way of cross at Calvary. You shouldn’t sink in your own sin; you shouldn’t die because of that curse, only because of this Jesus Christ gave His own life as living sacrifice in cross. Do you know why He passed that cruel way of cross; the reason is His unmeasured love that He has on you. Don`t forget today, Jesus loves you.