Read: 1 John 4:7-21
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. (1 John 4:9)
This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. (1 John 4:13-15)
Reflect:
This Easter Sunday I rejoice once again that God sent his one and only Son, Jesus Christ, into the world. God did this as a demonstration of his love whereby he ensured that I may live through Christ. Hallelujah! What a Saviour!
I celebrate once again that I have the assurance of the Spirit within me, by which I testify, together with John, that Jesus is the Son of God. Jesus is divine, an inseparable member of the Trinity, God himself, Immanuel.
Jesus was not some sleight-of-hand magician, not some Vegas-Style-hypnotist, not a circus show freak. Nor was Jesus merely a man like any other. Jesus was and is and ever will be the one and only Son of God.
God sent his only Son to us because only God could open the way to eternal life. Only God would demonstrate true love on a cross. For this end, God would love us by living with us and for us, by rising again to life.
Crux:
God sent his only Son because only his Son could be our Saviour.
Respond:
LORD God Almighty,
You are the Holy Creator, utterly different to your sin-stained creation. Yet you sent your Son, your very own Son, your one and only Son – essence of your essence – into the world to be our Saviour, so we may live just as he was raised to life.
This is such good news, such glorious news! Thank you.
Thank you for a Saviour who is perfect in every way, who demonstrated divinity to us, dwelling among people yet not just a person.
Thank you for a Saviour who is kind, gentle, compassionate, just, wrathful, deeply grieved by sin and its effects.
Thank you for a Saviour who knows me, sees me, hears me, cares for me and reaches out for me, walks with me.
Thank you for my Saviour, Jesus Christ, your one and only Son.
Amen.
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