Saved by the Love of God

 If you try to obey Jesus, to serve God, to help others with love for your neighbour, then God's heart beats over you with joy.

The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” Zep 3:17 NKJV

What does this mean?

Can we earn God's approval through good works? Not at all.

How do we come to God?

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?” Jn 11:25–26 NKJV

Your faith is crucial, but there are many who acknowledge Jesus as the Son of God and who strive to live virtuously, but you see no radiance of God's love in their lives.

There are those who do good works for Jesus and they hope to earn God's acceptance.

But there are also Christians who are humbly aware that they are only saved by God's mercy and forgiveness.

God loves you because he loves you.

He created you out of pure love. He longs for you to get to know him. He wants to have an intimate love relationship with you.

A duty-orientated religious person cannot even grasp this idea.

Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.” Jn 3:3 NIV

If God gives you the insight that you can only stand before his judgement seat through his forgiveness and cannot be saved by any good works, then you can ask Jesus to give you his New Life, and only as a gift.

Jesus has already paid the price on the cross.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom 6:23 NIV

If you have started a completely new life with Jesus, you are God's beloved son or daughter.

For God, your trust and childlike love are much more important than your works.

But who can truly love God without following Jesus?

God is love. He loves not only you, but all your fellow human beings, everyone, even the terrorists, drug dealers and pimps.  

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. Jn 3:16 NIV

 A beloved child with good parents wants to become like his parents. When we have truly discovered the love of God, we will also love our fellow human beings.

Those who experience God's love every day want to pass on God's love.

All who truly love God, want to serve God.

All who love their fellow human beings, want to help them.

All who come to Jesus with a humble heart will find an open door to a new life.

“I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. Jn 10:9 NASB95

Those who live this new life in close fellowship with Jesus become like Jesus himself, a tree of life that produces heavenly fruit.

What kind of fruit did Jesus produce in his earthly life?

Tender love, extreme mercy, amazing wisdom, deep humility and fearless proclamation of the truth that can only come from God.

Jesus is waiting for your prayer. He will never let you down.