Col 1:4 We always thank God, The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints—the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel that has come to you.
This caught my eye Father. That faith and love spring forth from the Gospel.
The Gospel is something that is totally complete and sufficient for every believer.
The answer to all of life’s problems and questions are found in the death, life, and resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord.
There is no end to the living truths that it contains. If a person was to live a thousand years, they would still be finding life changing truths in what Jesus has done for us at the Cross.
Father, You are Holy and True and You knew what it would take to reconcile mankind to You.
Paul writes that they had heard of the faith and the love for all the saints that the Colossians had. It was from the Gospel that love came forth in their hearts because of the truth they learned about their future in heaven through what Jesus did for them.
From this hope came forth the love for others and the desire to share with them this true and genuine love that now dwelt within them.
As I have stated so many times, Your love Father as demonstrated through Our Lord Jesus is an amazing kind of love. It is pure and without conditions.
Through Your love for them, a believer is able to know what a genuine love really is and come to understand Your abounding grace toward us. The Colossians discovered Your grace in the truth and hope of the Cross.
Not having Jesus is not having love because the love of an unredeemed heart cannot attain or experience God’s love until they receive the finished work of the Cross through Jesus’ own love and sacrifice for us. That is when blind eyes are opened.
I am so deeply grateful and privileged to experience this love You have for me.
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