SPIRITUAL DIARY
Date: 09-29-04
My Worship Time Focus: God sent His Son into the world
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: 1John 4:9
Message of the verse: “9
By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only
begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.” (NAS95)
“9 God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the
world so that we might have eternal life through him.” (NLT)
This verse
has some very descriptive words in it that help show the real meaning of this
verse, and thus help to show God’s love for man. The word manifested means to come out into
the open, to be made public, and is the opposite of to hide or to make secret. God’s love is not hidden, in that how He
demonstrated His love for us was to send His “only Begotten Son” into the world
in order that we might have eternal life through Him. The words only begotten mean one of a kind,
and in the case of Jesus it was speaking of His uniqueness in being the eternal
Son of God.
The verse
says that Jesus was “sent” into the world, and this means that He was in
existence before He was born into the world.
The eternal Son of God was sent into the world, and the humanness of
Jesus Christ was born into the world.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: All of this took a great deal of planning,
and you can see the fingerprints of God demonstrating His love for me in all of
this. God’s love for me is so important
in my life each and every day of it, because I can have the assurance that
because He loves me so much that He will care for me in a way that only He can
do, and so I trust Him more and more as I understand more fully His love for
me.
The Word of God was very refreshing to my heart as I read it
this morning.
My Steps of Faith
Today: I want to continue to trust
the Lord to lead me and also my wife and to show us the purpose of why He has
sent us to Aruba . It seems to me that it is because of John and
his need for the Saviour.
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