"Given In Love"

“Given In Love”

 

For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not die but have eternal life.  For God did not send His Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its Savior.        John 3:16-17

 

This time of year is the time many people STRESS over gift-giving.  They may have a NEGATIVE attitude about it.  Instead of giving from the HEART, they give because they feel OBLIGATED, FORCED, and out of a SEASONAL HABIT.  You know, “it’s that time of year,” so they GIVE out of any reason, except out of LOVE for the individual they are giving to.  Their HEART just isn’t in it.

 

Aren’t you GLAD that God doesn’t have that attitude towards us.  He looked down on MANKIND and saw their DEPRAVITY, and out of a HEART of LOVE and COMPASSION, He gave HIS VERY BEST.  The GIFT that just KEEPS ON giving.  The gift of SALVATION, which is GIVEN through the SACRIFICIAL DEATH and RESURRECTION of His ONE and ONLY BELOVED SON, the LORD JESUS CHRIST.  So that ANYONE who would BELIEVE in Him, would NOT die a SPIRITUAL DEATH, but would RECEIVE the gift of ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN, with ALL its BLESSINGS.

 

God did not send Jesus to be the JUDGE of the world, but to be the SAVIOR.  He did this because of His IMMENSE, UNFAILING, EVERLASTING LOVE for ALL of MANKIND.  But ONLY those who will BELIEVE, and ACCEPT this GIFT, in LOVE for the GIFT and the GIVER, will receive ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN.  Have you ACCEPTED GOD’S GIFT?

 

If you have NOT given your HEART and LIFE to GOD, then you are not a recipient of His PRECIOUS, EVERLASTING GIFT.  And SADLY your DESTINY is an ETERNITY in HELL, with ALL its HORRORS and NO WAY of ESCAPE.  However, YOU can change your DESTINY by:  WILLINGLY TURNING AWAY FROM your sinful lifestyle, and TURNING TO GOD, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  CONFESSING your sins to Him, and asking Him for His FORGIVENESS.  BELIEVING, with ALL your HEART that JESUS died for YOU, and that He is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for you, before God.  Then ACCEPT His GIFT of SALVATION and HEAVEN as your ETERNAL HOME.  ACCEPT it as it is GIVEN, with LOVE in your HEART for FATHER GOD and His SON, JESUS CHRIST.  So do it NOW, while you still can.  He’s waiting and coming SOON!!!