A Reminder

Today, I was reminded of God's unconditional love for us.  It seems like such a "simple truth" as one of my Jr. High students worded it, but we often forget or don't believe it.  During Jr. High service, we read from the book of Galatians.  Here's what we read: "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel - not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ." (Galatians 1:6-7)

In small groups, we discussed exactly how the gospel was/is being distorted.  We discussed how we as humans tend to put conditions on love and how that's what was happening with the gospel.  The truth about Jesus is that all you have to do is, "confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved" (Romans 10:9).  That's it!  There's no: You have to do this, you have to act this way, you must fit in the box of ideals.  God's love for us is unconditional.  It's agape love.  Love that we can never reach as humans, no matter how much we try.  Although that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to reach that, it doesn't mean that we should put that kind of expectation on a person.  We're human.  We will mess up.  We will fail to love someone at some point in our lives.  But God never fails.  God's love is unwavering.  It never changes.  It's never ending.  It is perfect.

I don't know about you (whoever may be reading this), but that's something I need to be reminded of everyday.  Don't let a simple truth become ordinary.  The fact that God came down to be among us sinners, should never be something we find mundane.  It should wow us to our core everyday and we should be in awe of a God who loved us so much that he gave up His heavenly throne for us.  Don't forget God's unconditional love for you, ever.

Thank you, Daddy.

~Alyssa