Your Daily Bible Verse 15th August 2021 Sunday – A Love Letter from God (1 John 5:11)
Today’s Bible Verse: And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. – 1 John 5:11
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Today’s devotional is my imagining of what God might say to us about His Word:
Dear Precious One,
I’m writing to you because I’m not sure you’ve read my other letters. Oh yes, it’s true, I’ve written to you before. It’s actually a bunch of letters I left just for you. I gathered them all together and bound them in a book, it’s called the Word, or maybe you’ve heard another name, the Bible.
Don’t worry if you haven’t read it, I know it’s quite lengthy. It’s something to take in pieces, something you read often. You see, I know that it’s hard being in the world. I know because I sent my Son there. And I watched as they mistreated him, railed on him and finally, nailed him to a cross.
It was hard to watch. And why did he do it? He did it because I loved the world so much, I wanted them to one day be with me. You included.
Some of my earlier letters talk about this. When the people sinned, I told them to take a perfect animal, a lamb, and to sacrifice that lamb. Then they would put the blood on their doorpost. And when the death angel passed over, whoever had followed what I said would have their sins covered. That is, until my Son came.
When Jesus came and his cousin, John, was baptizing, he saw Jesus and said, “Behold the lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,” (John 1:29).
All have sinned and fall short of my glory (Romans 3:23). And the wages of sin is death, but my gift to you is eternal life through Jesus (Romans 6:23).
I know a lot of people think that they need to work their way to heaven, but it’s not true, that was man’s idea. And while man has a lot of good ideas, this is not one of them.
Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins (Hebrews 9:22).
Day after day, a priest would stand and perform religious services, which can never take away sin, but Jesus offered up one sacrifice for sin, forever (Hebrews 10: 11-12). Jesus is sitting with me right now.
Did you know Jesus is going to call those who have trusted in him to come to heaven, and that day is coming soon?
