If I asked each of you to quote your favorite Bible verse……which one would you choose?  I daresay that each person has a verse in mind because it gives a special message to their hearts.

How about John 3:16…….”For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life”. 

There is enough in those few words for a year’s worth of devotionals.

The first assumption of course is that there is a God who is the Creator and Sustainer of the world.  This God has a love for all of His Creation.  He isn’t a “hands-off” God.  He doesn’t just sit on some heavenly throne and look down at his people and say…”I gave them some guidelines for life and they have disobeyed every one of them.  Now they will be punished.”

No, this God says, “I love these people I have created.  I love them so much…. however, they must pay for their disobedience.  I demand justice from them but at the same time, I love them.  Only by giving of myself can I pay the punishment for their disobedience. No earthly man can offer himself because all humans are sinful. Therefore, I will give of myself in their place.  I will offer myself as the blood sacrifice for them.”

So God himself took the form of a human and came to this earth and died as a justification for us.  Because of our faith in this God/ man we no longer are under condemnation for all the sinful things we have done or thought or failed to do.  We know that this God/ man came to die for us and that at our death; our souls are saved from the punishment we deserve.

And what is the name that God chose for himself when he came in human form?  We all know it………..Jesus the Christ, or his Hebrew name, Jeshua, A Meshieach.