Note: I could not get into my daily bread post yesterday on the school computer...brought my laptop and here we are: two slices today
John 3: 13-17
Faith Necessary for Eternal Life
13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man. 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
As painful and humiliating as it was, the cross became the instrument not only of torture and death, but of life! Who would think that the electric chair could bring us salvation? The same with the cross, yet Jesus chose it, the worst of deaths, to bring about the possibility of the greatest life: eternal life with him. God loves paradox and this is the greatest. May we not be discouraged by our suffering,disappointments and trials; let us rather with faith, think beyond them to the blessings that abound in spite of them.
Bro. Rene
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