BLESSINGS OF THE CROSS - DAY 16
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us. . .
1 JOHN 3 : 1
Learn this solemn truth that the Father loves
you, the Father wants you to be saved, the Father wants
you to believe on the Son; the very Father who commanded
Christ to lay down his life for sinners. You will notice
from this that the Father is clear from the blood of all
men. He does not want you to perish. “Turn ye, turn ye,
why will ye die?” He is not willing that any should perish.
“He willeth all men to be saved, and to come to the
knowledge of the truth.” He does not want you to perish.
He commands Christ to go into the world, and lay down
his life for sinners. Oh! It is true: the Father does not
want you to perish. “God so loved the world, that he gave
his only begotten Son.” “God sent not his Son into the
world to condemn the world; but that the world through
him might be saved.” God the Father is as earnest in your
salvation as Christ is. It was God’s part to send the Son,
and the Son’s part to come and die. And as God the Son
has done his part, so God the Father has done his. So
that, sinners, if you perish, it is because you will not
come to him, that you may have life.
R O B E R T M U R R A Y M C C H E Y N E ( 1 8 1 3 - 1 8 4 3 )
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