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Thursday  10  January

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.   1 John 4, 9.

The only begotten Son of God, who is mentioned in today’s verse of Scripture, has long since left this world. His mission on earth was fulfilled. When He was here, few acknowledged Him as the Son of God. The Jews had associated certain expectations with the coming of their Messiah, but owing to their unbelief they have had to remain as yet unfulfilled. Instead of reigning, as would have befitted the Son of God, He took a submissive place as a Man here below.

He did, indeed, give Israel sufficient signs for them to be able to recognize who He really was.  But He was rejected by the leaders and the vast majority of the nation and crucified almost 2,000 years ago.

How was God’s love shown when He sent His Son into this world? Not merely in His going about “doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil” (Acts 10, 38), for only a limited number of people would have benefited by it. When He was crucified, He died with a view to saving  coming generations, even ourselves today. “Christ once suffered for sins, the  just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3, 18).

That is how God expressed His boundless love to us. Christ did not leave this world as one dead, but as the risen Saviour. Now all the “unjust” can come to God to the pardoned. But this joyful message of God’s love to mankind will not be preached for ever. It will cease when Christ takes His owns unto Himself. That is why you need true faith now!