The Devotional - 1494 - The Gospel is Good News

The Devotional – 1494 – The Gospel is Good News

Psalm 119:153-160 = Consider my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget Your law. Plead my cause and redeem me; revive me according to Your word. Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek Your statutes. Great are Your tender mercies, O Lord; revive me according to Your judgments. Many are my persecutors and my enemies, yet I do not turn from Your testimonies. I see the treacherous, and am disgusted, because they do not keep Your word. Consider how I love Your precepts; revive me, O Lord, according to Your lovingkindness. The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.

Comments and Challenges:

Oh can I say it again? I love the Word of the Living God who loves me even before I knew Him. Romans 5:8 – says… But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we are still sinners, Christ died for us. God has truly considered our affliction in sin and rebellion, yet He has not forgotten His love for each of us. Now I do not understand how He does Love, but I suppose that I do not need to fully understand it since He has given me peace in all issues of life.

Romans 5:1 – Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our LORD Jesus Christ – Faith and peace; faith in God and the peace of God, equal the grace of God. All of this is a perfect expression of God’s Love for all of humanity. What I am seeking to say is this; Christ Jesus is the sacrificial LAMB of God for all men, women and children who ever lived or will live. The sin of the world is covered and cleansed in His DEATH.

There is another side to this story. Those who believe, or TRUST this TRUTH also believe in His physical RESURRECTION from that death. In believing in His sacrificial death and His victorious resurrection we are reconciled, note Romans 5:10. We do not earn reconciliation, nor do we deserve it, thus the only way to have the curse of sin removed is by accepting the grace gift of God through Jesus Christ. Ephesians 2:1-10.

Now tomorrow, I will pick up on Psalm 119 again and continue in the section we are in today. My morning is packed with things to do so I must move quickly. “If we meet and if you get to know me and then forget me you have lost nothing really. But if you have briefly heard a word or two about Jesus Christ the Son of God and forgotten that Word, then you have lost much! He is a friend who would stick closer to you than a brother”.

Nathanael said to Him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” John 1:48 the context of John 1:43-51 speaks of the omnipresence of God in our everyday life and whatever tree you are under… He sees. Either you are under the Tree of Life or the tree of the knowledge of good and evil – Genesis 2:9