The issue of salvation happens to be one of the most controversial topics among Christians in contemporary society. Well, this ought not to be the case. The Bible, which should be and is the only source of truth for every Christian, is rather simplistic in presenting this subject. It explores this subject in a manner that most of us, if not all, can decipher. However, most of us do not yet have a proper understanding of this subject, either out of ignorance or false indoctrination.

SACRIFICIAL LOVE by AUGUSTINE LUYINGWA.

Love is the ultimate expression of God’s relationship to humanity which is encapsulated in what we term sacrificial Love. We can never explain or understand God outside His Love, 1^st John 4:8this does not mean God's Love but His expression to us which He expects us to relate with one another.

Sacrifice simply means to give up or loose something for the sake of another person. What God Has ever done is to sacrifice for humanity to the extent of corrupting heaven for us. His sacrifice has gone beyond human understanding to the of substituting His nature for Human beings. 2^nd Cor 5:21, He is made sin for us to be His righteousness. This is the highest form God showed and sacrificed His Love for us, the death, resurrection, and the New Life in His Son Jesus.

Something intriguing is that God always wants us to know that He loves us and in this knowledge we shall approach Him in confidence knowing that nothing can hinder us from accessing that which we need. Heb 4:16. It is in the fullness of this Love which we have received that we relate with each other and we are even prompted to share the life we have received and evangelize to others so that they can walk in the freedom and the peace which we have in Christ Jesus.

Though we have been born of God, we cannot receive anything apart from understanding the depth of His Love, Ephesians 3:17-19. It is in the Love men understand how much God Has poured to them from the abundance and when this is made a reality, we are able to be filled and walk in the fullness of what has already been deposited in our spirits.

It just hit me, do you know it is a sin to do anything without faith, Romans 13:24. It is so big a sin to know the immense Love of God and refuse to walk in the acknowledgment of the great things we have received from God. Do you know it is only a man who has faith who can accept that God Loves them without comparing the Love of God to their weaknesses and therefore approaching God in understanding? Ephesians 1:4, God Loved us before the foundations of the earth therefore His Love is not a dependent variable on how we go around it.

It is very clear that effectuality can only be achieved through acknowledging good things in God through Christ Jesus. Philemon 1:6, the good Love of God can be made a reality by continuously recognizing it.

What then has the sacrificial Love of God brought in the life of a believer?

The Love God has given the believer confidence in what we have received in Christ Jesus even as we wait upon His appearance in the Hope of Glory, 1^st John 4:17-18. This has given us ground to walk in understanding our fate as believers we do it not in fear but in power and confidence 2^nd Tim 1:7.

Through this Love we have been made sons in fullness, 1^st Cor 6:17 By Him uniting us to Him he has made us as He is unto His Nature because He is a father of spirits Heb 12:9b, therefore as He is so we are in the spirit for we share in His nature for His Glory according to His own will 1^st Cor 2:9-16.

In this Love, we have received eternal life embodied in the eternal salvation we have gotten from Him. John 3:16, by the virtue that we believe in His Love He has given access into eternity through us being sons. John 1:12.

Last but not least He has made us worshippers in Him through the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. Philippians 3:3, We are circumcision that worships God in the spirit…rejoice in Christ Jesus. This shows directly that the bit of us being worshippers wholly depends on the sacrifice made through Christ because of His Love. Through the sacrifice of Christ, worshippers have been abl3 to have a mind of no sin consciousness and through purification, as the worshipper is perfected in God with no reminder of sin and with exemption from dead works, Hebrew 10:1-4. Hooray, hallelujah, we are the worshippers God seeks and in Him, He has made us for His own praise.

What then shall we say of the great Love of God, it so great beyond the understanding of the Human mind Ephesians 3:18. There is nothing that can separate us from the Love of God which He has put on the line for the sake of them that He has called according to His knowledge, Roman 8:35. We have been fully  encapsulated in His Love and therefore I repeat again that there is nothing absolutely nothing that can separate us from the Love of God. GLORY TO GOD.

THE WORD OF GOD by EDWIN NDEGWA

“The entrance of your word gives light; it gives understanding to the simple”                     

Psalms 119:30

Understanding the place of the word of God in a believer’s life is the best gift that he/she can ever acquire. Do we really need to take our time and study the word of God? Let’s have a look at this…

Being a believer does not separate us from experiencing the challenges of this world. It does not make us live in our own world where the only people we interact with are our fellow believers. It does not stop us from encountering situations that may easily lead us to sin, get anxious, and encounter different forms of darkness.

It's her wedding day, but she's not happy. She's not sad too, she doesn't know what she's feeling because anyway, she has seen this happening through her nine years of existence and she has to go through this too. It is the norm of her society. She first has to go through the cut, a wedding can't happen without it, not when a village elder is the 'lucky prince charming'.
A painful 'honeymoon' awaits the poor nine-year-old female child, one, because she's young, and as if that is not enough, she has just gone through the cut, and sadly she is not even allowed to heal. (A village elder needs not to wait for her to heal or even better, for her to physically mature, he needs a wife, a young wife! Urgently!) She knows she doesn't have a life ahead, not when she's not allowed to go to school like her outcast female friends, not when she is only an object- an object of childbearing, an object of pleasure, a child doomed to be married by a man double her father's age.
As she sits on the hot sand older women surround her bleeding body as one of the women is sewing the cut, the poor child restrains her tears because she is not supposed to cry in the ritual. Her heart is full of bitterness both for her sad life and for the sad life she's about to go through. She's not the only one, even the ones taking her through the cut have gone through the same life, only that maybe they were not lucky enough to have a village elder as their husbands.
Life for them takes the same turn over and over through the years. Darkness reigns in not only their culture and traditions but also in their hearts. They know not light because anyway where Christ does not reign, darkness reigns! We rarely think about this, or rather, we don't even know this happens somewhere in our very own country. People living in darkness, in chains of culture and traditions, yet we swim in ignorance of this.
Our selfish culture will tell us to "mind our own business" Yet people will be born and perish in darkness without the knowledge of Christ all their lives. Their poor souls are doomed to hell, yet we are the messengers of the good news, the light of the world meant to shine in the darkness.
Our prayer therefore should be; "Break our hearts for what breaks yours Lord, send us wherever you would want us to go and shine your light because that is our very purpose in life." So help us, Lord.

@NeemaG
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