“God
sent His Son, they called Him Jesus,
He
came to love, heal, and forgive;
He
lived and died to buy my pardon,
An
empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives.”
(Bill and Gloria Gaither)
God, in Christ, embraces all the events and all the people who ever will pass before Him in the march of time. In that broad panorama, individual Christians may often feel so insignificant that they wonder to themselves whether or not even the most powerful microscope could find them! At those moments we need to rediscover the truth that God entered human history in the person of Jesus Christ in order to tie the poor threads of our scrap of time back into eternity. God's wide embrace includes you and me, for it was the lost of this world that God sent Jesus so that we and our moment of history's stage might be redeemed. You are locked into the embrace of God, an embrace that will never fail. In Jesus Christ, God said, "I love you. You are Mine."
-- Paul K. Peterson in “Redeeming Love”
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