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Everyday Light with Selwyn 5 January 2022 Devotional | Wednesday

by Chibuzor Nwaobasi

Everyday Light with Selwyn 5 January 2022 Devotional
Everyday Light with Selwyn 5 January 2022 Devotional | Wednesday Message

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Topic: The Ultimate Discovery

For reading & meditation: Mark 15:16-39
“… when the centurion … saw how he died, he said, ‘Surely this man was the Son of God!’ ” (v. 39)

I cannot believe that God would write a law of “saving by sacrifice” within our hearts and evade it Himself. The psalmist asks: “Does he who formed the eye not see?” (Ps. 94:9). And Browning said: “He that created love, shall He not love?” We might add: “He that created sacrificial love, shall He not sacrifice”? The old Chinese scholar was right who, after listening for the first time to a missionary telling the story of the loving sacrifice of God through His Son on the cross, turned to one of his pupils and said: “Didnt I tell you there ought to be a God like that?”

The leaders of the world’s religions stumble over this. A leading Muslim said recently during a television debate: “A God who would stoop and suffer is not perfect.” And a Hindu commented: “If Brahman would suffer He would be unhappy, and if He were unhappy He would be imperfect, and if He were imperfect He would not be God.”

The cross spells out the message that God is prepared to take into Himself the suffering caused by sin and, indeed, to take on Himself the very sins of the ones He created. No other religion can conceive of such a thing. The cross raised on Calvary is but a reflection of an inner cross lying in the heart of God. Through it we see that at the center of the universe is redeeming love. No greater discovery could be made or will be made than that – in earth or in heaven. It is the ultimate in discoveries.

Prayer: O Father, I see that if self-giving love is the meaning behind the cross, and the meaning of the universe, then it must be the meaning behind my life too. May the cross work itself out in all my relationships from this day forward. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

For further study:
John 19:1-15; 1 Corinthians 1:1-23

Questions to Consider
What was central to Paul’s message?
How was the message of Christ’s crucifixion viewed?

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