Do you stop to thank God for His love?
So often we just take God's love for granted.
But today's quote will remind us that God doesn't owe us love, but oh what a gift it
is.
God has a voluntary relation to everything He has made, but He has no necessary relation
to anything outside of Himself.
Hi friends, I'm Pastor Josh and I'm excited you stopped by so together we can grow on
our journey to develop the mind of Christ.
The quotes that I share will point us back to the Word of God so we can change our thinking.
Today's quote comes from AW Tozer.
Aiden Wilson Tozer was born in Pennsylvania.
He moved to Akron, Ohio and it was there while he was a teenager that he trusted Jesus Christ
as his Savior.
He ended up spending over 44 years of his life serving God in ministry.
During many of those years, he wrote articles and preached a number of different messages
on the Word of God.
There are over 60 books attributed to him that were compiled after his death because
of his ministry of writing and his ministry of preaching.
Today's quote comes from the book, "The Knowledge of the Holy".
God has a voluntary relation to everything He has made, but He has no necessary relation
to anything outside of Himself.
The reality of this truth is that God doesn't owe us love.
We've just come through Valentine's Day and it's a time we remember loving others and
we are thankful for love that others give to us.
But have you stopped to think about the love that God has for you.
You don't deserve it.
But it's so great and so powerful.
The Apostle Paul challenges us with this truth in Romans chapter 5.
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some
would even dare to die.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through
him.
As Paul writes this passage, we're reminded the awfulness of our sin.
That my sin is against God.
There's nothing I've done right that I can earn or even deserve God's love.
But the reality is I deserve to be separated from God forever in eternity in a place called
Hell.
But God loves us so much.
Paul doesn't just write in this passage our sin is wicked and wrong.
But he also writes the truth that God's love is great and powerful.
But God commendeth His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died
for us.
He loved us so much that He sent His son Jesus to suffer on a cruel cross.
To go to the point of death.
To remain dead for three days and rise again the third day according to the Scriptures.
Friend, this is love!
This passage challenges us.
If you know Jesus Christ as Savior, oh would you stop and thank God for His love today?
But friend, if you don't know Jesus Christ and you don't know His love that He died on
the cross for your sins; the Bible says today is the day of salvation.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
God demonstrated His love, He commended it toward us by dying on the cross.
So would you stop and thank God for His love?
Perhaps you need to acknowledge Christ as Savior.
You need to believe that Jesus died for your sins.
Perhaps your already saved.
Would you spend time thanking God for His great love?
God has a voluntary relation to everything He has made, but He has no necessary relation
to anything outside of Himself.
If today's quote has been helpful, would you consider sharing that with a friend.
So that together we can grow on our journey to develop the mind of Christ.
I look forward to seeing you next time.
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