04/23/24 not robots

 04/23/24 not robots

I was thinking about how blessed I am that God loved me, while I was without Christ, being an alien from the commonwealth of Israel, and a stranger from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: (Ephesians 2:12). God loved me while I was yet in my sins. God sent His Son to save me from my sins and punishment because He loved me.

He loved me and everyone who was like me. We were all alienated from God, we were all enemies of God. God did not send Jesus to save me because He was obligated or because He was fulfilling a decree to save some. He did not send His Son to save some for His own good or glory. He sent His Son to save any and all sinners who would accept, receive, believe, trust in Christ to save them because He loved us.

I know God provided my salvation because His word says He did. I know He provided salvation because He loved me, while I was still the enemy of God.

The God of salvation is glorious because He loved all of the human family, to the extent that He provided salvation for everyone who would believe. The God of the Bible does not desire anyone to die and suffer perdition. He did not create the human race so that the human race would die without salvation. God calls many to salvation, but only some respond to His call.

God did not create a race of robots to be manipulated, in order to accomplish a unilateral plan of human suffering to exalt Himself. God created a race of free agents, who can either live in sin and be lost forever or we can believe in Christ and be saved from sin and eternal judgment.

God will be glorified in His justice and His mercy, grace and love. We choose whether to be saved or be lost.