A Costly Rescue - What Wondrous Love is this?

Some days are harder than others…actually the struggle I am facing hasn’t changed.  The longing and disappointment are still etched deeply in my heart.  So why is there a difference in my days, moments and moods?  While many factors can contribute to these changes, I want to share with you one primary reason for my ups and downs. 

I’m forgetful!  J

Maybe you can relate…

…or maybe you have an outstanding memory, and just maybe you have never heard of or accepted God’s great love for you. 

I have learned that days of pain, hopelessness and despair are certain to come when I forget God’s deep love for me.  During the times when I forget, I start to believe a lie.  The lie is that He (God) owes me something, when the truth is I will always be indebted to Him because He has given me everything! 

Wait a moment…if infertility is my struggle, isn’t it obvious that God has neglected to give me a baby?  I cannot deny the fact that I have never birthed a baby, but I will argue that God has given me a baby!

Above and beyond that, this infant is His own son!  Jesus Christ was born in the town of Bethlehem so many years ago.  This verifies my argument that God has given me a baby, but it doesn’t show His great love for me until you have an accurate picture of who I was before accepting this gift.  (Warning:  It is not a pretty picture.)  You see, I had greatly offended and wronged the God of the universe!  I was held captive by the chains of my sins (moral evils, rebellion against God’s laws & perversion of heart).  I was guilty and condemned with no hope.  My right and just fate is death and eternity separated from God and all of his goodness.  It was God and His son, Jesus who came up with a plan to rescue.  It was my only way of rescue and it was costly!  Jesus would have to set aside his crown of glory and honor and respect and be birthed as a baby on earth!  God became a man and walked on the earth which he had created from nothing!  He rescued me from my bondage caused by my own wrong doing by taking my place.  He took on the shame and guilt of my sins and died my death!  By His great power, God then conquered death by bringing Jesus back to life!  It is truly a remarkable love story…(and it can be your story as well!)    

 

In a season created to celebrate His birth, you would think that I could remember…yet so often I forget.

 I am free to live in God’s presence, treasured and adopted as a child of God!  God doesn’t owe me anything; instead he has given me everything including a baby, His very own son!  What can I do, but praise him for the remainder of my days on earth?

Ephesians 4:14-19

“When I think of the wisdom and scope of God’s plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.  I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you mighty inner strength through his Holy Spirit.  And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him.  May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love.  And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is.  May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it.  Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.