Thought For Today - October 16, 2024
Why Do I Love Jesus?
By Robert A Searles
Why do I love Jesus? I can tell you that I love Jesus because he had
chosen me before the foundation of the world, to give me faith to
believe his word and be saved. I did not choose him, he chose me.
According to Ephesians 1:3-5. - "Blessed be the God and father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in
heavenly places in Christ according as he hath chosen us in him before
the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame
before him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of
children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of
his will."
Unsaved
friends! God has chosen to cause you to read this gospel message. All
whom God has allowed to hear or read the gospel message have been chosen
by him to believe and be saved.
Without faith it is impossible to please God and be saved. Faith is a gift of God.
Ephesians
2: 8-9 tells us - "For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that
not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man
should boast."
I love
Jesus because he gave me the faith to believe. Once I was dead to God in
trespasses and sin, a natural man who could not understand the things
of God according to 1 Cor 2:14 - "The natural man recieveth not the
things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him, neither
can he know them because they are spiritually discerned."
Jesus awakened me from my natural state and gave me new life according to Ephesians 2: 1-3. -
"And
you hath he quickened (or made alive) who were dead in trespasses and
sin: wherein in times past ye walked according to the course of this
world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that
now worketh in the children of disobedience: among whom also we all had
our conversation in times past in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the
desires of the flesh and of the mind., and were by nature the children
of wrath, even as others."
Therefore, I love Jesus because he chose me.
I love Jesus because he gave me faith to believe.
I love Jesus because once I was dead but he gave me new life.
I love Jesus because once I was blind, but now I see. Once I was lost but now I am found.
I love Jesus because he paid with his own blood all the debts I owe God.
I love Jesus because he will keep me secure forever according to his promise of 1 John 5: 11-13:
"And
this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life, and this
life is in his son. He that hath the son hath life and he that hath not
the son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that
believe on the name of the son of God That ye may know that ye have
eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the son of God."
If
you will hear with your heart this message of salvation, believe, and
call upon the Lord, he will save you, and you too will have reason to
love Jesus.
