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MONDAY DECEMBER 21


AMAZING LOVE

READ:
JOHN 6:38
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I have come down
from heaven not
to do my will but
to do the will of
him who sent me.
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Approaching the first Christmas after her husband died, our friend Davidene wrote a remarkable letter in which she pictured what it might have been like in heaven when Jesus was born on earth. "It was what God always knew would happen," she wrote. "The three were one, and He had agreed to allow the fracturing of His precious unity for our sake. Heaven was left empty of God the Son."

As Jesus taught and healed people on earth, He said, "I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me....For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day" (JOHN 6:38, 40).

When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, it was the beginning of His mission on earth to demonstrate God's love and give His life on the cross to free us from the penalty and power of sin.

"I cannot imagine actually choosing to let go of the one I loved, with whom I was one, for the sake of anyone else," Davidene concluded. "But God did. He faced a house much emptier than mine, so that I could live in His house with Him forever."

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son" (JOHN 3:16). _____DAvid McCasland
Father in heaven, we are in awe of Your amazing love for us.
Thank You for giving Your only Son to save us from our sins.

The birth of Christ brought God to man;
the cross of Christ brings man to God.

****************************************Today's Bible Reading John 6:32-40*********************************
32 Jesus said to them, "Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses
who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my
Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For
the bread of God is the bread that comes down from
heaven and gives life to the world."

34 "Sir," they said, "always give us this bread."

35 Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. Whoever
comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me
will never be thirsty. 36 But as I told you, you have seen me and
still you do not believe. 37 All those the father gives me will
come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to
do the will of Him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of Him
who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those He has given
me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my father's will is
that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall
have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
The 40-year experience of the Israelites in the
wilderness where God sustained them by manna (EX. 16) provides
the backdrop for this passage in John 6. The miraculous feeding of
5,000 men (vv. 1-13) caused the Jews to compare Moses with Jesus.
Jesus corrected them, saying that it was God, not Moses, who had
fed the Israelites (v. 232). Jesus then gave them one of the greatest
revelations of Himself: He said He was the new manna_sent down
from heaven to sustain them. "I am the bread of life" (v.35) is the
first of seven "I am" sayings in this gospel where Jesus provides a
clear picture of who He is (JOHN 8:12 10:9; 10:11; 11:25; 14:6; 15:1;
__Sim Kay Tee