Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song, images, and lyrics from Scott Carpenter singing … This Is Love … poignantly singing of God’s sacrificial gift to mankind as God’s Son was pierced for our iniquities on a Cross.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Isaiah 53:5 [ESV] ... 5 But He was pierced for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His wounds we are healed.
… God’s prophesy of His greatest gift of love to mankind.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Isaiah 53:1-5 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… Isiah’s prophesy of God’s greatest act of love.
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Reference Passage : … John 3:16 [ESV] … 16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave his only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. …
… Jesus’ declaration of God’s greatest gift of love to mankind.
Reference Passage : … Philippians 2:8 [ESV] … 8 And being found in human form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
… God, thru Paul, explains just how far God, the Father, was willing to go to save mankind from our sin nature.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Elisa Morgan, relates a story of modern day love and sacrifice to illustrate what God gave up, sacrificing His Son on the cross to save us from our sin. … The ODB author wrote: She’d called. She’d texted. Now Carla stood outside her brother’s gated entry, unable to rouse him to answer. Burdened with depression and fighting addiction, her brother had hidden himself away in his home. In a desperate attempt to penetrate his isolation, Carla gathered several of his favorite foods along with encouraging Scriptures and lowered the bundle over the fence.
But as the package left her grip, it snagged on one of the gate spikes, tearing an opening and sending its contents onto the gravel below. Her well-intended, love-filled offering spilled out in seeming waste. Would her brother even notice her gift? Would it accomplish the mission of hope she’d intended? She can only hope and pray as she waits for his healing.
The ODB entry today is a good story of great sacrifice of one’s love for another; but really in an attempt to illustrate the greatest act of love in history, … Jesus being pierced for our iniquity on a cross, … the story pails in comparison, doesn’t it? But perhaps it brings into human focus just how far God, the Father, went, as prophesied by Isaiah 700+ years before it happened (see highlight passage), to save me (and you) from my (our) sin.
I pray we stop to recognize God’s sacrifice and, … as it is Sunday, … let’s make today a special day of worship, thanking our Lord and recognizing His love-sacrifice for us all.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for what You did on the cross because You loved us just that much.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to stop, on this Sunday, and recognize what our Lord did on the cross to save us from ourselves and give us access to eternal life. Amen
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