He comes for everyone.
“You know the generous grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty he could make you rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9, NLT).
It is incredible, that the Christ who existed and reigned in heaven would be willing to come to earth to redeem a world lost in sin and self-centeredness. It took the ultimate sacrifice of God’s only begotten Son to reach the lowest realms of wickedness, lifting any and all who would believe in Him to the heights of heaven and eternity. It is beyond our comprehension as the Holy God moves beyond every dominion of human sinfulness and every other power of heaven and earth to love and save us by His favor and grace.
God’s love reaches the lowest places. His love reaches the fatherless, the poor, the outcast, the forgotten, the lonely, the neglected, the brokenhearted, the miserable, the used and misused, and even to the cynical and the prodigals. His love is truly incomprehensible in its reach to all those who are hurt and damaged by sin. Sin attacks all good and all virtue, maiming people and their relationships, but our salvation in Christ redeems pain and brokenness. No one on this earth ever escapes the damage and stain of sin and because of this common fallen state; we all need a Savior. We are all in a lowly place and since our Christ comes to all of us in our lowly condition, no one or no damage is ever out of the reach of His love.
What does all this mean to each of us? How does the mighty reach of Christ to the poor and lowly, translate into joy in our lives? Joy comes as His redemptive love reaches all of us. He comes to every place. He comes to every way that we have failed and covers all the sin in our lives. It means there will never be a lowly place where His presence will not be with us through His Holy Spirit. He will always come, never abandoning us in the low points of our lives. He comes, lifting us up from the places of pain and suffering and giving us His peace. Christ coming to us, becoming like us in every way, and redeeming every place and person … means nothing can separate us from His love as we believe and follow our Savior. To everyone, Christ will always come. Thus no one is beyond the reach of God’s love through the grace of Jesus Christ. Thanks, be to God.
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