Thoughts for another day

June 3, 2014.

Today's verse:  John 16:27. For the Father Himself [tenderly] loves you because you have loved Me. (Amplified Bible – copyright acknowledged)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

This is an important revelation Jesus makes to us His followers that we can approach His Father and our Father directly for the Father Himself, loves us as we love Jesus.  My friend, there’re some truths we discover in the Bible which’re more than enough to hold on to and live a lifetime and this is one of them for Jesus is saying that the Father has loved us from eternal ages because we loved Jesus and this love we have for Jesus has been known to the Father even before the beginning of time.   

Long before God created any of us on earth, He had deigned to send His Son, Jesus Christ to redeem us from death to life.  God knew it would be necessary because we would sin and that would mean we die and have no eternal life.  Now, Jesus was to come to earth and give His message, the Good News of God’s love for us and then die for us and rise on the third day.  In this God also knew that there would be some who would accept Jesus Christ as Lord, God and Savior and come to believe and love Him and these were those who would gain God’s favor and everlasting love.  They would also come to know the Father for they would know Jesus and knowing Jesus means knowing the Father, for the Father and the Lord Jesus are One.  

Jesus, in Scripture, lays bare the fact that since we know the Father and love Him, reciprocating His love, we’re His children in Christ and in that relationship the Father is most concerned about our well being and gives us anything we ask, just as an earthly father would bestow gifts on his child.  In fact I’ll stress that the Father delights in giving us things even without asking, for He joys in us when we ask that which is in His will and good for our souls.  That’s why Jesus prior to our verse says, even without His asking the Father for what we want; His Father would grant it because he loves us.  In Christ then we believe and ask confidently knowing that the Father who loves us tremendously will listen to our prayer and grant us whatever we seek.  Let nobody dissuade you from asking our Father nor should you listen to anyone who says God will not grant you what you ask for remember, God is madly in love with us and He will listen to our prayer.  Just trust Him.