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Greetings from Heaven

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God’s love for His people is eternal. He made that very clear when He sent His Son to bring redemption to planet earth. Paul said that there was nothing that could ever separate us from the love of God that is found in Christ Jesus.

God’s love for the fallen family of Adam cannot be measured. Listen to the apostle:

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” (Eph 2:4-7 NASB)

The love of God is the Story of Jesus

As Jesus is facing the cross, we hear this statement concerning those who belong to Him:

“Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.” (Joh 13:1 NASB)

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And God’s Word was made Flesh

The apostle John said that the Word of God came to tabernacle among us. Jesus is the very embodiment of God’s message from heaven.

The moment you open the Bible you begin to sense that there is an underlying message. The message starts with these words: “In the beginning God…”

Then we read, “And God said, ‘Let there be Light’; and there was Light.”

Here is where we begin our journey of discovery. God spoke and His Word went forth. When God said, ‘Let there be Light’, according to the ancient Hebrew belief, this was the Light of Life, also known as the Wisdom of God. It was the Light that Adam was to walk in.

When Adam turned from God’s Word, the Light of Life was taken away. But the sages said that the Light would return with Messiah. Any Jewish person would have understood what Jesus meant when He said,

“I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in darkness, but will have the Light of Life.” (John 8:12 NASB)

And so the discovery continues. What we begin to realize in the discovery is that the Light of Life had to do with God’s love.

The Light of God and the Love of God cannot be separated. The apostle nailed this down when he said, “God is Love.” Then he also said, “God is Light.”

John went further in saying,

“By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” (1Jn 4:9-10 NASB)

Remember…

There is much love to be had in Jesus

May the Lord richly bless you in your discovery of Him.

Buddy

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