ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For WEDNESDAY, 26TH JULY, 2023.
Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE
TOPIC: LOVE: THE ESSENCE OF GOD – Part 2
MEMORIZE: “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Cor. 5:21.
SCRIPTURE READING: 1 John 4:8-10.
“He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
EXPOSITION:
The personal love of God must be consistent with His own righteousness. Man can never meet God’s standard of righteousness. If God were to love imperfect man in the same way He loves the perfection of His essence, God would compromise His integrity.
The original man and woman, created perfect, were objects of God’s personal love. After the fall, Adam and Eve were defiled by sin. The righteousness of God demanded that divine justice replace personal love as the point of contact between God and man. Justice condemns all human beings (Rom. 5:12 “so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”), but likewise, only divine justice can save human beings. Motivated by God’s impersonal love for fallen humanity, the justice of God judged Jesus Christ on the cross for the sins of all mankind. Since Christ paid the penalty for sin, the justice of God without compromise to God’s integrity, imputes the righteousness of God to every believer at the moment of faith in Jesus Christ. “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Cor. 5:21.
Since God loves his own perfect righteousness – wherever it is found – we now become objects of divine personal love. Nevertheless, because our salvation depends on His justification of us (Rom. 3:24-26 “being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”), His justice continues to be the source of all our blessing and discipline. Knowing that God will not and cannot compromise His integrity, His justice is also the source of our comfort and encouragement. He personally and eternally loves us because we possess His righteousness.
PRAYER POINT: Thank You Lord for your redeeming Love for us. Help us to love you too in Jesus name.
DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Isaiah 22 – 24.
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