The immeasurable love of God
What could give us more comfort than experiencing God's infinite love? The good news is: You can experience God’s love in all its fullness! Despite all your wrongdoings, regardless of your past, regardless of what you've done or who you once were. The infinity of his affection is reflected in the words of the Apostle Paul: "But God demonstrates his love for us in this, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5,8). Can you grasp the depth of this message? God loves you just the way you are!
Sin leads to deep alienation from God and has destructive effects on our relationships, both with God and with our fellow human beings. It is rooted in egoism, which causes us to put our own desires above our relationship with God and others. Despite our sinfulness, God's love for us surpasses all selfishness. Through His grace, He offers us salvation from the ultimate result of sin – death. This salvation, reconciliation with God, is a grace so undeserved that there is no greater gift. We receive it in Jesus Christ.
God extends his hand to us through Jesus Christ. He reveals Himself in our hearts, convicting us of our sinfulness and enabling us to encounter Him in faith. But ultimately the decision rests with us whether we accept his salvation and love: “For in this is revealed the righteousness that is before God, which comes from faith in faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith" (Romans 1,17).
We can choose to enter into that transcendent life that will continue to grow in love and faith, continually moving toward that glorious day of resurrection when we will be transformed into imperishable spiritual bodies: "It is sown a natural body and will rise a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body" (1. Corinthians 15,44).
Or we can choose to reject God's offer to continue our own lives, our own ways, to pursue our own self-centered pursuits and pleasures that will ultimately end in death. But God loves the people he created: “The Lord does not delay the promise, as some consider delay; but he has patience with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but for everyone to come to repentance" (2. Petrus 3,9).
Reconciliation with God represents the greatest hope for humanity and therefore also for you personally. When we choose to accept God's offer to turn from our sins in repentance and return to Him in faith, He justifies us by the blood of Jesus and sanctifies us by His Spirit. This conversion is a profound, life-changing experience that leads us to the new path: the path of love, obedience and no longer of selfishness and broken relationships: "If we say that we have fellowship with him, and yet we walk in the darkness, we lie and do not tell the truth" (1. John 1,6-7).
We are born again through the love of God revealed in Jesus Christ - symbolized by baptism. From now on we no longer live driven by selfish desires, but in harmony with the image of Christ and the benevolent will of God. Immortal, eternal life in God's family is our inheritance, which we will receive when our Savior returns. What could be more comforting than experiencing the all-encompassing love of God? Don't hesitate to take this path. What are you waiting for?
by Joseph Tkach
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