Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Tues Devo: To risk or give

 Hello,

This past Sunday in church the Pastor during communion made the comment that Jesus didn’t risk His life – He gave it. That really stuck with me. What is our mindset when we think about doing things for God in our lives? Do we think about what the risk is, or just do what we should out of love back to Him? You see thinking about risk has a natural selfish component to it – we balance the possible good outcome against what could happen to us. If Jesus would have come to risk His life, He would have played it safer and tried to mitigate the pain to Himself to try and achieve the same outcome. But His focus was not on Him – it was on us. We know from His prayer in the garden that He wasn’t looking forward to it – He asked the Father one more time if there was another way – but He put all of that aside and out of love gave Himself fully for us and our redemption.

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” (NASB)

What in our lives do we need to stop risking for the God, and start giving?


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