Beloved, I could just as easily have named this Haiku Sacrifice. Jesus' love towards us, is to be our motivation for all our thoughts, words, deeds, behaviors and attitudes.
We are to live a life filled with (His) love for others. Jesus Christ loved us before we even knew Him. He spoke us into being... and He loved those He had created!
(It might help considerably, if you were to understand that Father God designs/plans/thinks/ Son of God speaks/writes/becomes, and God the Spirit, exercises power/performs: Mind-Word-Power.
Right now, I specifically want to speak to you of Jesus, the spoken Word. See Genesis 1 & 2: God said.. and God said... and John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God)
Jesus is known as God, the Son; God, the Second Person of the Trinity/Godhead/Triune God, and God, The Word,
1. Spoken (Creation), 2. Written (The Scriptures) and 3. Living (when He became flesh, and was born of a Virgin - and then during His lifetime, as He fulfilled most of those Scriptures - or, He brought life to them!
When Jesus Christ offered Himself up, as the Only sacrifice, that could blot out every sin ever committed by His Own Created Beings (us), it was because of the strength of His love for His Father, the Creator - and the strength of His love for His Created.
This was pleasing to Father God, who wanted to regain fellowship with His Created Beings, broken by the sin of one man, Adam.
The whole purpose of Christ's birth and death and resurrection, was to become that sacrifice...to pay the price - or wages - of our sin debts, which equaled DEATH, according to the Laws of God.
Therefore, God Himself had to die that death, because one sinful man could not have traded his own sinful life for the lives of other sinful mankind, in the sight of a Holy (Perfectly Pure and Just) God!
Jesus, being His Only Begotten Son - was also The Only One who was sinless - or Perfectly Pure.
That purity was like sweet perfume to our Heavenly Father.
Nowadays, we are bearing witness to literal multitudes, of the so-called politically correct, who are trying to turn our rugged Saviour, Jesus Christ, into a kind of simpy-wimpy, pamby-mamby "Metro-Man" figure, in order to meet their own personal needs - so as not to be "judged". But I have news for you, Beloved! The guilt they are experiencing may be their last chance to acknowledge and confess their sins, and repent - that is, to change their minds to agree with what the Word of God says, rather than twist it, to fit what they want it to say, in a vain attempt to hide their sin.
In doing do, they abuse the GENUINE LOVE He has for ALL His Created....He willingly died for them, too. Only He can take away their guilt.
Jesus walked among them. He loved them - He had created them! - but He never once weakened, to became like them. He never altered His plans or His words for their sakes. He told the Truth, and those who received it, were set free and made whole! Then He gave Himself over to be crucified - no mere man took His life from Him. AS HE HUNG ON THAT CROSS, JESUS PROVED THAT TRUTH PIERCES AND LOVE HURTS.
So whenever you are confronted by these kind, do not falter, do not vary to the left or right. Stay rooted in The One who saved you from eternal death. Love them enough to tell them the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth, without waivering, without compromising, without profaning ... that which is Holy.
Sacrifice being popular, sacrifice accommodating everybody's "feelings" for the "sake of peace" - which is a wicked, false peace.
For this is good and upright in the sight of the LORD...and a sweet-smelling savor to our Heavenly Father!
This then, truly is, love.
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Rhonda S. Galizia, Scribe Unto The LORD
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