DAILY DEVOTIONAL: THE MESSAGE OF LOVE - RHAPSODY OF REALITY - Wednesday 11, OCTOBER 2017

DAILY DEVOTIONAL: THE MESSAGE OF LOVE - RHAPSODY OF REALITY - Wednesday 11, OCTOBER 2017

It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and
restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting
up and holding against [men] theirtrespasses[but
canceling them], and committing to us the message of
reconciliation [of the restoration to favor] (2Corinthians
5:19 AMPC).

The message of the Gospel is so simple. Our opening
verse richly summarizes it as a message of love.
Love doesn’t consider wrongs or hold an offence against the
offender. The Bible says God isn’t counting men’s sins against
them. That’s the message He’s charged us to preach around
the world. God knows they would turn away from their sins
and fall in love with Him if they heard and accepted His
Gospel of love.
The reason the world doesn’t know God is that they
don’t know how much He loves them. Love begets love.
When they understand the love of God, they’ll respond
accordingly. This is the reason He tells us to tell the world
of His love. You too once had the Gospel preached to you
before you received salvation. Thus, it’s your responsibility to
take the same message of His love that transformed your life
to the ends of the earth.
It’s our job—yours and mine—to let the world know
that though sin separated man from God, the Lord Jesus
consummated the reconciliation, and made peace between
God and man through the sacrifice of His blood. Through that
sacrifice, He presented all men holy and without blame to
God (Ephesians 1:4). He delivered all men from the dominion
and thraldom of darkness, and today, anyone who receives


Him, receives newness of life; a life of righteousness. This is
the good news He’s committed to us to preach.
We’re God’s ambassadors, sent into the world as
ministers of reconciliation. The world will never hear or know
what God has done if we don’t announce the Gospel through
every available means. That’s why you must be a
Gospel-activist, spreading the message of Christ’s love to your
world, and to the regions beyond.

CONFESSION
The Word of God, the Gospel of
His love, is as fire shut up in my
bones, and I can’t keep quiet. I
herald this message with passion
and conviction, knowing that it’s
God’s power to liberate men
from darkness to light, and from
the power of Satan to God.
Today, I make manifest the
savour of the knowledge of Christ
everywhere I go, in Jesus’ Name.
Amen.

 1 YEAR BIBLE
READING PLAN:
Colossians 4:2-18
Isaiah 52-53
2 YEAR BIBLE
READING PLAN:
John 5:10-18
1 Kings 17-18
FURTHER STUDY:
John 3:16
1 John 4:9-10