Blessings to you in Jesus Christ. Have you ever noticed when you are doing your devotions and then go to Bible study, or hear the sermon that Sunday, how so much of God's Word seems to be saying the same thing. I mean obviously all of God's Word is saying the same thing because it all points to Christ as our Lord and Savior. But what I mean is like one specific theme out of all the countless metaphors, themes, or ideas the Bible uses to talk about Jesus. This has happened to me lately, everything is pointing very specifically to the selfless love of Christ.
I was writing and preparing the sermon for this morning and the theme was Christ's selfless love. I used Ephesians 5 as the text and focused on Christ's selfless love rather than our selfish sinful nature pushing away the ideas of submitting and loving selflessly. But then as I went to the PALS meeting we had a Bible Study on love. We looked at ten passages and all of them kept coming back to the theme of Christ's selfless love. Then in my morning devotions, I notice the same theme of Christ's selfless love for us. I guess I am rambling because I appreciate when you start to notice a specific theme and then you see it come out of the wood work. Once you notice it, it's like you can't miss it. I truly appreciate that about the richness of God's Word and how it all works together to show us Christ and yet can reveal new things to us all the time. I hope as you spend time in the Word you may begin to notice Christ's selfless love and be reminded of the perfect, selfless loving Lord He is. In the name of Christ, Amen.
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