October 9, 2024

Romans  8.32 (NIV)

He who did not spare his own Son . . . how will he not also . . . give us all things?

We sometimes think God is silent when he isn’t doing something we want him to do or telling us something we want to hear.*

I have heard of parents whose child needs a bone marrow transplant, or perhaps a kidney, and who purposely have another child in hopes that the new baby will be a donor match. The parents may love both children but the second one’s purpose in life is to save the first one. These situations do not involve one-of-a-kind organs, like a heart, but in essence, that is what God did for us. His Son was born to sacrifice his life in order to save ours.

Someone posed the question, "Has it ever occurred to you that the only person God ever really forsook was His own Son?" He has nothing that he values more than his Son and yet he turned his back on him. He wasn’t a prodigal or a trouble-maker or disobedient or ungrateful. But I am all these things. And yet God let his Son pay the price for my sins. He doesn’t resent me for it. He still loves me unconditionally. There is no power greater than the ability to love like that!

If God would do all that for me, how could I think that he would then turn around and reject me? The sacrifice would have been for nothing - a waste of blood, suffering, life. Are your dreams not coming true? Do you really think that means God has turned his back on you? Would God really withhold his blessings when he has gone to this much trouble on your behalf?  

Shall the Father not give us freely all that Christ purchased for us?*