"The Father loves the Son extravagantly. He turned everything over to him so he could give it away - a lavish distribution of gifts. That is why whoever accepts and trusts the Son gets in on everything, life complete and forever! And that is also why the person who avoids and distrusts the Son is in the dark and doesn't see life. All he experiences of God is darkness, and an angry darkness at that." Jn 3:34-36 (MSG)
Wow! I'm not sure that I need to write anything to accompany those verses. God loved Jesus, gave Him everything so He could give it away to us, only if we trust and accept Him fully and by doing so we receive all He has to offer in this life and the anticipation of the greatness of the eternal life to come.
The part that has really stuck out to me is the last two sentences. It says if we don't trust Christ, we don't "see life". We miss so much of what God wants us to experience while we are here on earth when we choose not to trust Him. All of our experiences about God is just darkness - just a void. How much more joyful, pleasant, extravagant will our lives be if we just simply trust God. Pastor David Berkheimer said last week that "We don't have to understand everything, we just need to trust God." Our promise is not that life will be easy but, that if we can trust Him, we can experience everything He has to give to us!
Are you trusting Him?
So true.. love this!
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