My Devotion By Liz Omondi | Email: timestodayke@gmail.com | Image courtesy: pixy.org
Super Amazing Love
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” This is probably one of the most quoted and memorised verses in the Bible. Numerous songs have been sang about God’s love, poem written and recited and plays and movies acted out. Even atheists can recite this verse without error. So common it is that we could easily not even meditate it.
man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth. 10 But the Lord desired to crush Him, causing Him grief; If He renders Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
11 As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will [l]see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the RighAs Easter approaches, this is teous One, My Servant, one of the verses that will be will justify the many, For on every ones lips along with He will bear their wrongother Scripture verses that doings. 12 Therefore, I will capture God’s amazing love. allot Him a portion with But recently when I heard the great, And He will dithis verse being recited, one vide the plunder with the word in that verse got me thinking. That word is ‘whoever’. “that whoever strong, Because He poured out His life unto death, And was counted with believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” wrongdoers; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for the wrongdoers. My thoughts wandered in the amazement of God’s super amazing love, the Creator of the universe, that He would come down to my level, suffer God demonstrated this super amazing love for all, yet it is for whoever for my sins and for all mankind, the good, the bad, the downright ugly believes in Him. He does not coerce anyone to accept His love. Though and still give me a choice, that ‘whoever’ believes. How can it be? I asked this love cost Him His life, it is for whoever. It does not matter your somyself. With wide open arms, He says, ‘I love you so much’, and as I stand cio-economic social status, your age, or race, gender, tribe, or the citithere, He still gives me a choice, it is for whoever. zenship. It does not matter how bad you have been, or how good you may think you are. God does not discriminate. His arms are open wide Isaiah 53 gives a graphic image of this super amazing love. The Scripture accepting whoever. says “Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 For He grew up before Him like a tender [a]shoot, And The entire Bible speaks of God’s super amazing love, His faithfulness, His like a root out of dry ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we goodness and would not want any of us to perish. Looking at the events would look at Him, Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in going around our world, it more evident we are indeed living in the last Him. 3 He was despised and abandoned by men, A man of great pain and days. familiar with sickness; And like one from whom people hide their faces, He was despised, and we had no regard for Him. Peter explains it this way in his 2 Peter 3:8-13, “But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and 4 However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself bore, And our pains that a thousand years are like a day. 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his He carried; Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted, Struck promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not down by God, and humiliated. 5 But He was pierced for our offences, He wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.10 But the was crushed for our wrongdoings; The punishment for our well-being day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a was laid upon Him, And by His wounds we are healed. roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare. 11 Since everything will be destroyed in this 6 All of us, like sheep, have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godway; But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all to all on Him. 7 He ly lives 12 as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. was oppressed and afflicted,Yet He did not open His mouth, Like a lamb That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, elements will melt in the heat. 13 But in keeping with his promise we are So He did not open His mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment He was looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness taken away; dwells. And as for His generation, who considered That He was cut off from the land of the [f]living I pray that we will all accept this super amazing love and not miss out on For the wrongdoing of my people, to whom the blow was due? the super amazing reward. “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have 9 And His grave was assigned with wicked men,Yet He was with a rich eternal life.”
TT 146 | MAR 29th - April 4th | 2022
