Life: My Response to God's Love
There is truly a connection between Christ and my need,
- even as it is illumined by God’s Word.
- Christ can only be revealed as He is presented to me
- as the One Who has fully paid for all my sins with His precious blood,
- and has set me free from all the power of the devil.
What am I to make of this,
- if I have not seen the misery as guilt?
- Undoubtedly much more can be said about the grace of God in Christ for life than is said here.
- However, this is the central point,
- and I cannot conceive of Christ in any way,
- unless I receive Him as He is presented here.
That presumes however that I understand that by my sins I have sold out my life,
- and see myself as under the dominion of Satan.
- That means that my life is meaningless and futile.
- It is through this power of Satan that life is subjected to vanity,
- no matter how beautiful and how rich it may appear to be at times.
Life serves no real purpose then,
- for everything that belongs to Satan is meaningless.
- Even as his own existence is senseless – he is against himself –
- thus he has also imprinted a stamp of senselessness on all of life.
The meaning of life, after all, is found in my response to God’s love,
- to be in fellowship with God!
- It is for this purpose, namely that I grow in fellowship with God
- and give Him a response to His love, that I live on earth.
- If that is removed from life it becomes senseless,
- whatever the appearance of its outcome may be.
If there is no particular burden in life for me,
- my living must still discover it to me.
- And how shall I understand the meaninglessness of life
- except through the Word of God,
- which enables me to discover the meaning of life?
Adapted Excerpt from
The True Faith
S.G. DeGraaf
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