What God has done

But with everlasting love I will have compassion on you, says the Lord, who redeems you. Isaiah 54:8

If God is all-powerful and all-loving, it would seem incompatible with his nature to allow anyone to get lost. Here again we rationalize because we do not understand the nature of God. God can not go against his own laws and against his own nature. God is holy. He cannot tolerate sin in his presence. He created us free to choose how we would live. He invites us to come and meet him, but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic and natural consequences. We say brilliantly : "Certainly, a loving God would not allow a person he loves to get lost, he just would not allow it." Far from allowing it, God did everything he could to prevent it ! Talk about love ! "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." It's good news. Because of what God in love has done for us, we don't need to be lost.

Prayer for the day

Almighty God, your magnanimous love is felt in my life, as I live every day by the grace of your Son, Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham