More than Information

Just a quick thought……
When you read and study about Christ’s work on the Cross and the Gospel, it should always be taken for more than just good information. Further it is never to be read as a pitiful story that simply moves you like reading of a mother with five children who starved herself to feed them. The work of Christ is always to be read and studied as that which changes you. Jesus died because of my sins. He took my place on the Cross. He turned away the wrath of God so that I could be loved by God. He in His love died while I was still unlovely and acceptable to God. This is not just information. This is Medicine. This is the love story of the ages. He is Savior. If ever I can read the Gospel and go away from it without falling more in love with Christ, then He never held my affection as Savior. If I can read about His sacrifice and merely tip my hat to His work, then the love of God is not in me. But if I read of His sacrifice and the awareness of my debt which took His life compels me, then I know I am His and He is mine. If I read the Gospel and become sickened by sin, then I am conforming to His image. If I read the Gospel and a hunger and thirst to say, “Yes” to Christ overwhelms me, then I can be sure I am Christian.