Amen to this one.
From: O.Addison Gethers
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:42 AM
To: Deaf-blind inspirational life groups ; Christian bible study groups
Subject: {dbilg} Mar 11 - A Covenant of Love devotional from kcm
Mar 11 - A Covenant of Love
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son."
(John 3:16)
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Dear Addison,
For God so loved the world that He gave...and He gave...and He gave.
That is the message the Bible brings us from beginning to end. It sounds simple
enough. Yet few of us really comprehend it.
We can understand the idea of a God of power. We can understand a God who
desires to be served. But an Almighty God who loves us so much that He desires,
above all, to give to us? That can be hard to believe.
For thousands of years, God has been working to drop the revelation of His love
into the hearts of men. He's made loving promises of blessing and protection.
But He's always faced that same obstacle--human beings who just couldn't bring
themselves to believe those promises were true.
The story of Abram is a perfect example. He wasn't accustomed to the idea of a
God who gives. After all, he'd grown up as a worshiper of the moon, and
the moon had certainly never seemed interested in doing anything for him. Then
he encountered El Shaddai, the greatest Being of all. The one Almighty God.
And the first thing this El Shaddai wanted to do was give to him.
God's promises so astounded Abram that he couldn't believe them. "Lord," he
asked, "how can I know I'm really going to receive these things?" (Gen. 15:8).
Do you know how God answered him? By cutting a blood covenant with him. That
covenant settled forever any question Abram could ever have about God's love
and loyalty. Once blood had been shed, he knew God meant what He said.
God did the same thing for you. He cut a blood covenant with you. And He
sacrificed His own Son to do it. Jesus' broken body and shed blood have become
the eternal proof of God's love for you. Through Communion, He's urged you to
remember them again and again so that when your faith in His promises begins
to waver, you "might have a strong consolation" (Heb. 6:18).
Get a revelation of God's love for you by meditating on the covenant He's made
with you. Get out the bread and the cup. Go before the Lord with them and
take Communion thinking about the body and blood of Jesus that enables you to
be a blood-covenant member of the family of Almighty God. Let them settle
forever the question of God's love for you. You'll never again have to doubt
His promises once you believe in His love.
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Scripture Study: Genesis 15
O. Addison Gethers
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