For God So Loved The World
It is Sunday morning, 13th December 2020, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.
At this Christmas time, there can be only one scripture verse that we need to concentrate on, and it is summarises the content of the whole Bible, 66 Books of the Bible.
And that Scripture verse is the Gospel of John, Chapter 3 and verse 16.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but shall have everlasting life.”
It sums up the whole love of God in one verse.
It is the love of Christ you see in me which compels me to love my fellow-man.
It is gratitude for Calvary when I love my enemies, because this is how much God loved the world, that He gave His only Son for you and I.
God proved how much He loved the world by the action He took at this Christmas time.
It is impossible to meet the Carpenter from Nazareth and still remain the same.
Mother Theresa left the security of a convent where she was a teacher, and she taught young girls from privileged homes - she left that convent to work in the slums with the poorest and the most helpless individuals on the face of the earth.
Often, she would pick up those men who were literally covered with maggots and they would even say to her, Why? How can you touch me?”
And she would say, “Because Jesus loves you.”
STudd was the most eligible in Great Britain in the 1800’s.
He played professional cricket in the summer and he rode horses in winter. He came from a very wealthy background but he met The Man from Galilee and it changed his life completely.
He sat outside a Post Office somewhere in India, where he had been preaching.
He had received a letter with his inheritance from his family, and he sat there and wrote letters and gave away every penny that he had.
What makes a man do something like that?
A friend of mine, a very good friend of mine, had the franchise, the sole franchise, to one of the biggest restaurant chains in the entire Southern Hemisphere.
He met The Man from Galilee, and what did he do?
He stopped it immediately and became a pastor and he is still preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ today.
Oh my dear friend, this Christmas time, let us concentrate on The Carpenter from Nazareth who came to Bethlehem as a baby.
He sacrificed all for you and me.
Have a wonderful Sunday and see what you can do to bless somebody else.