Responding to God's Love

John 3:16

by Dr Charles Stanley

God has to be true to Himself.  People are foolish to entertain the hope that He will ignore justice and sacrifice holiness in order to allow unbelievers into heaven.  Living a mostly moral life will not satisfy a righteous Judge.

As much as the Lord loves us and desires to save us from our sins, He can not deny His holiness by accepting sin in His presence.  The Father is pristine perfection - a holy Being who, by His very nature, must condemn all sin.  Therefore, it is the height of egotism to think that God will bend both His law and His nature to welcome one whom still bears the stain of wrongdoing.

There is not one person who's good enough to enter heaven on his or her own merit.  Everyone of us needs Jesus.  The stain of sin is washed clean only by the sacrifice of God's holy and blameless Son.  Those who believe in Christ are forgiven their wrongs and cloaked in His righteousness ( 2 Cor:5:21).

Let me make it very clear that trusting Jesus is far more than giving  intellectual assent to His existence- that's something even the Devil acknowledges.  A true believer enters into a relationship with the One who loves his soul enough to save him from eternal punishment.

Those who remain tightly wrapped in their mantle of sin cannot hope to sneak into heaven.  God's holy nature demands perfection, and since we can't provide this for ourselves, the Lord has given it to all who believe in Him.  He has exchanged our filty rags for a cloak of righteousness (Zech. 3:4).

Loving One Another.

By Kemi O.
Beloved,  A very Happy Valentines Day to you and your loved ones.  As we celebrate this day, Let's  remember the greatest lover of all, Our Father and God who first loved us that He sent His only begotten Son to die for us in other to live eternally with Him and to live a glorious life here on earth while awaiting His return.

Spread His love unto others around you today. Pray for someone, hug someone, show kindness to someone, bless someone, help someone and the good Lord, the God of LOVE will reward you greatly.

I leave you with this today 

 ⁷ Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. ⁸ But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

⁹ God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. ¹⁰ This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

¹¹ Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. ¹² No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.  1 John 4:7-12 New Living Translation.



May the warmth of God's love surround you now and always.

Shalom!