His Indescribable gift

Romans 5:12 - 21 2 Corinthians 9:15

Paul speaks of the Corinthians generosity in providing for others. Is Paul speaking of cooperation between Jews and Greeks or is he speaking of something else? Yes, he is speaking of God's gift of his son - he is too fulsome for an earthly gift. Romans 8:32 amplifies this. God gave up his son as a gift. Paul indicates that this divine gifts draws all others. In Romans 5 Paul speaks of the gift that brought justice and righteousness.
Human language cannot explain it but human hearts can experience it and it leads to praise to God. Language fails because our thinking fails. The scriptures tell of Christ's graciousness. God gave his own son to die for us and saw from the moment of the fall how he was going to rescue ruined sinners. God's own justice seemed to set too high a demand only Christ could satisfy. In Genesis 3 man is ruined by Satan, now his head would be crushed. Revelations show Christ coming in glory. The last words of the Bible ask for Christ's grace to be with us. Christ is the great theme of the whole Bible and the theme of every believers thoughts at all times. What should we say of it?
1. We should draw nearer to him and know him better. We cannot know enough of our saviour. He should never be absent from our thoughts. We shall only know his peace to the extent we know him and obey him. We should seek constant communion with him. We should see something new of him every day. Our life is hidden with Christ in God. We need to feel our total dependence of him. As we do so, the greater will be our spirituality and likeness to him. Hebrews 12:2 - we look unto Jesus.
2. We look in anticipation and expectation. We only know the true peace when we gaze fully on him. There is nothing the believer requires that is not in Jesus Christ. If we do this we shall see a glory in Jesus we have never seen before. We shall appreciate Jesus more as we understand him more. What of the Father's compassion and mercy that led him to make this gift? God so loved the World - shows great depth of mercy. God's love is the cause of the gist, the gift is the expression of his love - Romans 5:8 and 1 John 3:1 tell of this gift. Only infinite love could lead to such a love. Our hearts should be full of intense gratitude. We should show this gratitude every day. We shall be amazed in glory how little we have been affected by gratitude for God's love. What of the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ himself? He gave himself as freely and spontaneously as the Father gave the gift. The law and justice of God could not have been satisfied unless Jesus had given himself of his own free choice, willingly and fully. It was an obedience of utter submission. 2 Corinthians 8:9, Colossians 2:20, Phillipians 2:6 t0 8, Hebrews 10:5 - all say that his obedience is shown in his spontaneous giving of himself. He was presented to a ruined race as the way of redemption. The gift is an indescribable sacrifice. He became our surety. Surely the love and grace of the Father and Son call us to give ourselves in service to God. It is our spiritual act of sacrifice - our reasonable service. It is a debt so large that we can never discharge it. We can only make a poor return but if we give ourselves heartily he will accept it. We are rewarded according to what we can offer not what we ought to. It is always a constant struggle to do what we should. We should see it as a challenge. We have a duty in connection with the gift, we should share this gift with those around us. We should lose no opportunity to share this with others, to extol Jesus wamed his gift. When we commend Christ to our fellow men we are obeying him. When we are timid in this we disobey him and are a reproach to God. This is a test for us, we often fail it. We owe It to Christ and we fail when we do not speak of Christ. We are being ashamed of our Lord and our Master.
Christ was not ashamed of us when he died for us. He called us his disciples and his friends. He became the servant of the disciples when he washed their feet . He still sustains us while he is in Heaven, he is still our saviour and our friend when he pleads for us in Heaven. We should adopt a cheerful and confident courage in our service of him. We are never so honoured when we are ridiculed because we serve him and his cause. He provides us with power by the Holy Spirit. We all have opportunities to serve him when we meet unbelievers. We can proclaim our discipleship of Christ no matter how unfitted we think we are. May we all confess our failures of him and follow more closely in his footsteps. We can speak much of the Saviour and show our belief is not in vain. We should labour increasingly yo show forth Christ and show his power and glory. We must not remain silent. We must rise to our duty to warn those who are perishing in their sin. They might listen out of politeness but their hearts are often hardened by sin. We need to pray to God that he will give strength to overcome opposition. Romans 8:36 - he loved us and he will give us strength. His love should motivate us to do more.
The Christian's certain future - the prospect of seeing Christ in glory, is bright and best and fills us with hope and joy. Nothing but the experience of these things will lead us to proper service of him. We shall be like him and know him as he is.