If God Needed Your Permission to Love You Jesus Would Have Never Come
Religion starts with distance.
The gospel starts with union.
Religion says God is holy and you are not.
The gospel says God came to you because you were always His beloved creation.
The cross was not God finally deciding to love humanity.
The cross was God revealing the love He has always had.
For God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself not counting their trespasses against them.
Not some.
Not the repentant... moreIf God Needed Your Permission to Love You Jesus Would Have Never Come
Religion starts with distance.
The gospel starts with union.
Religion says God is holy and you are not.
The gospel says God came to you because you were always His beloved creation.
The cross was not God finally deciding to love humanity.
The cross was God revealing the love He has always had.
For God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself not counting their trespasses against them.
Not some.
Not the repentant.
The world.
Reconciliation is not something you perform.
It is something Christ accomplished.
The cross did not change God’s heart toward you.
It revealed His heart and dealt with everything that kept you from seeing it.
Jesus did not come to make God willing.
He came because God already was.
The Father did not need blood to start loving.
The Father gave blood to cleanse consciences and end the lie that He would not forgive.
Every sacrifice in the old covenant said stay away.
The final sacrifice said come home.
This is why Jesus said
When I am lifted up I will draw all people to Myself.
Not all believers.
Not all Christians.
All.
The finished work means the distance is gone.
The debt is gone.
The separation story is gone.
What remains is faith awakening us to what He finished.
You do not earn inclusion when you believe.
You awaken to the grace that was already given.
Faith is not the price of belonging.
Faith is the eyes that see you belong.
The goodness of God is not a reward.
It is the foundation.
God did not save you because you repented.
You repented because grace already came for you.
Goodness leads to repentance.
Love leads to transformation.
Union leads to obedience.
The cross did not start the relationship.
It revealed it and restored it.
You were not reconciled because you prayed.
You were reconciled because Jesus died.
The gospel is not come get forgiven.
The gospel is you have been forgiven in Christ.
That is why it is called good news.
✠SGT Dinah Scivoletti✠
✠Joan of Arc Priory✠
✠✠Act and God will Act (Actus et Deus Act)✠✠
