For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our LORD.

 Romans 6:23

 

Amen!

Eternal life.  Can you imagine it?  Have you taken time to reflect and imagine a serenity so beyond our grasp of human understanding?  Christ’ blood…washed clean…eternity.  What an eternal love story indeed.

He loves us. Each and every one of us.

That kind of love, Agape love…true unconditional love that only the FATHER can give.

Sure most of us experience love in many forms.  We can experience spousal love; or parental love from our earth parents; and brother/sister love;  plus friendship love; so on and so forth.  But, the ultimate all time over the moon and beyond back to our very heart and soul type of love…nope…that love comes from our Father.

Only He and He alone is capable of that special kind of love as evidenced throughout the Bible, over and over again.  And,  that love is clearly evident today, over and over again.

He is still on the throne, still in control, and still loving each and every one of us, over and over again.

No matter how many times we sin.  No matter how many times we may be neglectful in our daily activities of life towards Him, He continues to love us, over and over again.

 

For the life of the flesh is in the the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonment for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonment for the soul.  Leviticus 17:11

The blood of the Lamb.  The precious blood of the Lamb.  God’s promises to His children, fulfilled and completed at the cross.  “It is finished” John 19:30— and so the Love story was complete.  Of the last saying of Christ on the cross.  “It is finished” found on in the Gospel of John, the Greek work translated is tetelestai which means “it is paid in full.”

Our sins.  The sins of the world, our iniquities, were thrust upon the perfect unblemished Lamb of God…our sins…paid in full!

He wiped it away.  He redeemed us and eliminated the debt owed by mankind…the debt of sin.

“None other but God in the flesh could accomplish such a task.” (2 Corinthians 5:18-19)

 

Jesus’ work was done as He finished the will of the Father. He demonstrated this by His perfect obedience to Him.  The power of sin and the enemy was finished.  Mankind would no longer have to suffer the “flaming arrows of the evil one.”

In Jesus we can raise our shield of faith. The One who completed the work of redemption and salvation.  We are as new creations, with the “old creature” left behind.  We are alive in Him. Born anew…and offered eternity through His love and actions.

Jesus’ work and mission on earth was accomplished through the Father’s divine plan for mankind. We are made alive through Christ…through the Father’s love. ( Ephesians 2:1-5 )

Love eternal.  It is something that poets throughout the ages wrote about.  It’s something that movies boast about.  It is something we all dream about and hold onto once we have it.

But, the love of GOD…that’s something totally different.

The LORD’s love for His children, well that is something to write and shout about.  His love surrounds us daily.

His love is a warm summer breeze that will caress our face as we walk through a peaceful meadow.

His love is the living water that streams endlessly through a beautiful forest.

His love is the dew atop a rose petal that glistens in the bright sunshine.

His love is the miracle of a newborn baby.

His love is a puppy or kitten crying for his mommy’s milk.

But most important, the greatest love story of all time was  sanctified on the cross at Calvary.

There is absolutely nothing that can or ever will top that!

 

Thank You Father God!