Tag: Jesus Christ

  • Psalms‬ ‭63:3‬ ‭

    “Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise You.” Psalms‬ ‭63:3‬ ‭

    Have you ever felt the love of God penetrate so deeply into your heart that tears begin to fall without you even realizing it?

    For us to understand what David meant when he said, “Because Your lovingkindness is better than life,” we must first understand that the love of God is so deep that it cannot be taught. Words alone are not enough to express the love of God. No one can fully explain how to feel God’s love unless that love has been personally encountered. As it is written, “to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge” (Ephesians 3:19). This tells us that the love of God cannot be learned from letters alone. It is not something the mind grasps first, but something the heart encounters. To feel the love of God is something we must experience for ourselves. This is why David could say that life itself cannot compare to the lovingkindness of God. He had encountered a love so deep that even life on this earth could not surpass it.

    God speaks of this love when He says in Jeremiah, “I have loved you with an everlasting love.” His words tell us that His love is everlasting. It never ends. It does not change with time, failure, or circumstance. Unlike our shallow and conditional love, the love of God is deep, deeper than the oceans, and it lasts forever. This helps us understand the Hebrew word David uses for lovingkindness, “ḥeseḏ.” It means steadfast love, mercy, goodness, kindness, and faithfulness. God’s love is constant and unchanging. It is unconditional, not based on our performance or our faithfulness, but rooted in who God is. As it is written, “God demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Even when we are unfaithful, God remains faithful.

    If you have ever been deeply betrayed by someone you truly loved and gave everything to, then you understand how painful that road is. You know how difficult it is to trust again and how hard it is to give that person another chance. That experience gives us a bit of understanding of what God feels.

    We have all betrayed God; not just once, but generation after generation has turned away from Him, often without any desire to know Him. Yet God does not turn away from us. Instead, He continually pursues us with His love. As He declares, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). God’s love is always giving, even when we do not deserve His goodness. His love is willing to give chances, to forgive, to reconcile, to restore, and to offer salvation, even though many still neglect it today.

    This kind of love goes beyond our goodness and beyond our understanding, not even close. As it is written, “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38–39). This is why the love of God is better than life. Life can easily be taken. Everything we have in this world can be lost. But nothing in this life or in the life to come, not even death itself, can separate us from the love of God.

    Do you understand how deeply God loves us? His love for us was so great that He was willing to take on the form of a man, come down, teach us His truth, live among us, suffer as we suffer, and die on the cross, paying a debt we could never pay. The salvation we have received was not without cost. It is offered to us freely, yet it cost the life of Jesus, who is God manifested in the flesh. He rose again, conquering death by His death, so that we might live with Him forever in His everlasting kingdom. This is the greatest expression of the love of God. He chose to die for us rather than be separated from us forever. He gave His life so that we could have life.

    The love of God brings such deep peace in our heart and in our mind that it becomes our greatest assurance. It completes us in a way nothing in this world ever could. When that love fills the void in our heart, we no longer chase the things of this life to replace it. We no longer need validation for what we feel or think, because we know deep inside that the love of God is greater than anything this world can offer.

    If you pay close attention to the lyrics of secular music, the stories in novels, the messages in movies, and even the lives of the people around you, you will notice a common longing. They are all searching for a love that goes beyond conditions, a love that reaches deeper, a love that completes the person, a love that is better than this life, a love that cannot be priced, and a love that lasts forever. Yet this kind of love cannot be found in the world. It is found only in the LORD Jesus Christ, and only His love can fill the longing they are searching for.

    The lovingkindness of God is better than life because breathing does not always mean truly living when the love of God feels absent. This is why many wealthy people are still depressed. If the riches of this world were truly satisfying, why do some still feel that life is not worth living? Nothing in this world can fully fill the void within us.

    If we seek the love of God in the things of this world, we will never find it there. The love we are truly longing for is found only in our Creator and His name is Jesus Christ. Truly, His lovingkindness alone can make us whole and enable us to truly live with peace in our minds and hearts and with joy that sustains our lives.

    When we truly encounter the great love of God, something begins to change deep within our hearts. That inner transformation soon becomes visible in our lives, and all we can offer to Him in return is praise and thanksgiving.

  • John 1:3

    “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” – John 1:3

    Church leaders often recommend the Gospel of John as the first book for new believers to read and study. Why? Because the Book of John not only explains the gospel message clearly, but also reveals the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. From the very beginning of his writing, John confronts the lies of every human theory about how creation began. He declares the truth that nothing that exists was created apart from the Logos, Jesus Christ.

    John doesn’t just tell us what Jesus did, he reveals who Jesus is. When he refers to “all things,” he means the entire world, not just part of it. The Greek word translated “were made” literally means “came into existence.” This is also reflected in Paul writing in book of Romans: “God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did” (Romans 4:17 NKJV). He used His Word to bring something out of nothing.

    We understand that the Logos, the Lord Jesus Christ, was the active Agent of all creation. “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible… All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist” (Colossians 1:16–17 NKJV). He brought time and space into being. He brought all matter into existence. And He continues to uphold all things (Hebrews 1:3).

    Since the Creator of “all things” must Himself be uncreated, John affirms the truth that Jesus is eternal God. He is the preexistent Word before creation, before time, before all that we know (John 1:1–2). Everything except God had a beginning. “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God” (Psalm 90:2). God never had a beginning. He intended to create the beginning of all creation.

    He is the Source of all that exists; life, time, space, and matter itself. Without Him, nothing would exist.

    Why is this so important for us? Because God is eternal, immutable, omniscient, and omnipresent (Malachi 3:6; Psalm 139:7–10). Nothing in the universe exists independently from Him. And yet, becoming a man to rescue us from the sins that separated us from Him “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14).

    He could recreate everything, but He still chose to die on the cross to demonstrate His love toward us: “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).

    What does this tell you? John is showing you and me how immense the love of God for you and I. You may think your life is nothing but to God, you are something so precious in His sight that He left His throne to personally invite you into His Kingdom (Philippians 2:6–8; John 14:2–3).