A Love Story

Salvation.

How did it all begin?

Everything has a beginning. Your beginning was the formation in your mother's womb. A song is burst from a single tone. A forest starts with a single tree. So, everything has a beginning? Nope. He is eternity. Because beginning is a referral for timing. And we are bound by time, but not the Father. For time was something we came up with-humans. Therefore, it can be said that time is relative. And He is eternity.

The story.

The story starts like this. The Lord made you and I. loved us. We sinned. He came. He died. he rose again. hence, Salvation is believing that He died on the cross to wash away our sins. That's all.

Not really. There is more to this.

That's why a story is known as a story. Reality speaks differently. Today, I will speak of reality, and I pray that you will know with your heart and not your mind what salvation really is. You see, our Father, He didn't sit there, mould and make us so that we can sin and He can say "Aha!", and then purposely send His Son to die. No. He didn't plan it this way. He planned to love. And so He gave us a choice. You see, if all He wanted was worshipers, He would have summoned the angels to do so. But instead He made you, because He wants to love and to be loved.

To love and to be loved.

Sounds familiar? sounds like you? Maybe because you were created in His own image. He is a Father full of love. He cannot stop loving. It is His nature to love.

Now imagine this

There is this person you really love. Or a pet dog maybe. You really love them. Really really. And you discovered there is this remote on sale now. Its called The Perfect Love Remote. If yo install this on your friend, they will have to love you forever. Unconditional Love. Would you install it? They will HAVE TO love you if you do install it. The Father didn't install such buttons on us, not because He couldn't but because He didn't want to. He gave us a CHOICE instead. To love or turn away.

A choice.

He gave Adam and Eve a choice. He made everything beautiful. But He let the tree of the knowledge of good and evil grow. And as the story goes, they choose to eat the fruit of the tree, disobeying Him. Disobedience. Sin. Death was therefore introduced as a consequence.

But we forgot, how He might have hurt on the inside. He knew the possibility that sin might enter the world, just like how we know someone we love might hurt us one day. And things got even worse as you read along Genesis and Exodus and so on. This went to the point where all He could see on earth is sin. He regretted making humans. Regret- is a big word.

Ever regretted on someone? He did. So as the Bible writes, it came a point He Himself had to come down to save us. The Universe was in His hands, the earth His footstool, and He came down.

The way I see it, He sat on the same stool where He made you and I, and made another man- Himself.

You love someone. But were not loved in return. maybe because your love means nothing. Maybe because they forgot. Sacrifice- that will show love. When your dog comes around you all the time, protecting you, loving you, you never gave it much attention. Your dad who has always been there, who were there through your tough times and through your tears, joy, pain, sorrow, you never really noticed. Until one day, that dog dies protecting you. Or that dad suffers and dies saving you. Then you know the love. How much love. how deep the love.

The Sacrifice

So with that, he sent His One and Only Begotten Son- Jesus Christ. The father himself came to earth- for you. And after all the ways He could come to earth, He choose to be born in a stable- the dung, the animals, the smell, the Prince.

Sometimes we get carried away,we always talk about living like the Father, knowing how He lived, how people rebuked Him, and nailed Him, and we want to live like Him and walk like Him (which is good) But we so easily forget to remember the reason He went through it all - Love. So when you want to live like Him and walk like Him, you have to start loving like Him first.

It is finished

The nails went through the palm of His hands. The thorn pierced through His head. The blood soaked His body. He died. He choose to die.

His last words as a man on earth was : It is finished. now you might think, -wow, I think I get it now- But wait, don't leave when the credits roll up, because there might be some surprise element like in the movies. The Father did not just die, He conquered death, and rose up to life again on the third day. At this very moment He is sitting next to the Father, interceeding for you and I.

So what is Salvation? - Sacrifice of Love. The unspoken words of the Father. 2nd Chance.

With so much love for you, won't you help Him tell the broken hearted, the wounded souls, the unloved, about His love.

John 3:16 For God SO loved the world that He gave His One and only begoten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

So much of love.

Good day.