Imagine having a hungry stomach with only one piece of cookie left. Would you be willing to give the last piece to a hungr
y woman? No, this is not about Fita’s advertisement. How about if you have all the 9 pieces of biscuits and someone is begging you for the whole pack? Would you give everything despite the fact that you’re hearing your bowel sounds even without the help of a stethoscope?
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I know it’s hard to give something so valuable when you most need it. Yes, there are times when giving is so easy. Example is when we give away things that we do not need anymore thus giving birth to the saying “Someone’s garbage is someone else’s treasure”. We also believe in the saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and so we give away things that are not anymore desirable to us. The point is, it’s easy to give when we feel that we’re not losing anything.
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But what if a person is asking for that newly bought Dell Inspiron? It’s functional, brand-new and perfectly colored!
You bought it for yourself after saving for a year and now this person who is asking you for this Dell portable happens to be your favorite brother. After contemplating, you give in because you love him and you trust him that
he will indeed take good care of it. You might even get to borrow it from him!
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So years after, you finally bought another gadget.
It’s the MacBook Air that you have been dreaming about since time immemorial. Now, someone comes to you and tells you that he wants that from you. This person happens to be an enemy! You know that this person also has a reputation of being reckless or foolhardy. Too bad, this one and only MacBook Air of yours would just end up in the garbage bin after a few months or so. This person will definitely not value this precious possession of yours. BUT there is something that keeps on knocking deep inside you. It’s the fact that you love that person, without conditions. So you give away your precious Mac notebook. Love made a way! Love gave away! Sounds too good to be true, right? .
This situation reminds me of my Heavenly Father who gave His all for us. He had a Son, named Jesus, and He was His one and only. He knew from the very start that He will be giving Him up to a world that is characterized by careless unconcern. I am part of that world that He loved without any limits or conditions. So I am just going to speak for myself.
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I know well that I have been a sinner from the very start. I haven’t been the princess that He hoped I would be. I loved playing with fire which burned not only my fingers but also his heart. I hurt Him without any doubt. Yet, His Word tells me that He knew me even when I was still in my mother’s
womb. This reminds me that He knew all along that I was going to go against Him sooner than anyone could ever expect. I was a slave to sin who didn’t know that I was already bought with a price to be free. If I already knew about it, my heart just didn’t believe and receive a gift that sounded too good to be true.
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I lived a life of a slave, ate a pig’s feed
and slept with a pillow made of rock. I chose those things for myself by simply going against Him. I loved my ways and hated His. He knew all those things well and it made Him bleed. It made Him send His Son to save me. Was it easy for the Father? Was it easy for Jesus?
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Just imagine giving up that cookie, that Dell laptop, that MacBook Air, that very life of yours to a criminal. Would that be easy? NO! But what could be the only reason for you to just give in? The reason is LOVE. Nothing less.
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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
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So, this is what we are called for. One verb to summarize our purpose– to LOVE.
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Difficult? YES. Impossible? NO.
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One verb to summarize His will for us– to be LOVED.
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The purpose of this article is to remind myself of what God has done for me. I knew it even before I came to know Him personally but I was too calloused to care. Even now, I sometimes get insensitive to His call to be like Him. Everytime I forget this truth, I would feel dead, when I should be feeling alive for all that He has already done for me two thousand years ago.
Finally, I wish to share about the depth of His love for us. It is so great that we can never imagine any other reason for His surrender to us. Only love could make it so tangible and real. Only love could make a way.
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