"My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand." (John 10:27-28)
Do you remember reading Romeo and Juliet? Or perhaps some other love/romance story? Their love for each other was so strong that they both preferrerd death over being apart. I have a Savior who "would rather die than live without me," too. He did that, indeed, but His death was not final.
What word but love could describe the heart of Christ as He suffered for the joy set before Him?You and I are that joy! Despite our doubt, pride, anxiety, depression, addictions, idolatries, bitter thoughts and lying tongues, we still are the delight of His heart and the 'apple of His eye'.
In love, He paid for every sin I have committed or ever will commit; in love, He holds on to me--tighter than Romeo could ever hold Juliet.
In love, my name is written on His heart and graven in the wounds on His hands. My sin can't stop His plan to bless me with every spiritual blessing. His love does not depend on my performance, but on His own obedience. Here I rest in complete safety, knowing that I am in the very center of the greatest love story ever told. -- "God knows our frame; He remembers that we are but dust; and has opened for us a new and blood-besprinkled way of access to the throne of grace..." --(John Newton)
--Haven Today
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]
