A Message Of Love
It was God [personally present] in Christ,
reconciling and restoring the world to favor with
Himself, not counting up and holding against
[men] their trespasses [but canceling them], and
committing to us the message of reconciliation [of
the restoration to favor]
(2 Corinthians 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.
Further Study
John 3:16; 1 John 4:9-10
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