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You were created for Him!

Colossians 1:16 says:  “For through the Son everything was created, both in the heavenly realm and on the earth, all that is seen and all that is unseen. Every seat of power, realm of government, principality, and authority—it was all created through Him and for His purpose!” Read the last sentence again: it was all created through Him and for His purpose! Everything was created through the Lord Jesus Christ. Most people would agree that we are God’s creation. Most people do not have a problem with that. However, it doesn’t stop there. It also says that everything was also created for His purpose! That statement changes everything. If we were created FOR Him, then we are responsible and accountable to Him. Since we belong to Him, we answer to Him. Much of humanity is totally deceived in this. They think that they are not accountable to God. They believe that they can do anything they want and not be accountable for it. This is hypocritical if you think about it. Parents demand respect and accountability of their children. Schools call up the parents if the child acts up in school. If your dog bites someone, you’ll be sued because the dog belongs to you, right? Yet, we belong to God and His purposes, but we get offended because God holds us accountable for our words and actions. Look at what the prophet Isaiah said about this: “How foolish can you be? He is the Potter, and he is certainly greater than you, the clay! Should the created thing say of the one who made it,’He didn’t make me’? Does a jar ever say, ‘The potter who made me is stupid?” (Isaiah 29:16). Did you catch that? That is exactly what many are doing today? But always remember: “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap” (Galations 6:7). The truth is whether we accept it or not, we were made by Him, and we were also made for Him!

Colossians 1:16 “For through the Son everything was created, both in the heavenly realm and on the earth, all that is seen and all that is unseen. Every seat of power, realm of government, principality, and authority—it was all created through him and for his purpose!”

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This Love gave its best!

Most know this historic verse, John 3:16. They might even have this verse memorized. But since it is the Easter weekend, let’s read it again in the Amplified version: John 3:16 “For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life.” The two key words there are loved and gave. God dearly loves and prizes all of us.  This verse clearly shows the level and degree of His love toward us. Think about it, who would willingly sacrifice their child for someone that doesn’t even know them? Yet God sent Jesus to die for us while we were yet in rebellion and separated from Him because of sin: “But Christ proved God’s passionate love for us by dying in our place while we were still lost and ungodly!” Romans 5:8 (TPT) And in another verse, it says that we were enemies when He went to the cross: “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” This is a love that I have yet to understand, but today I celebrate and receive that love. I celebrate and receive this gift that God gave us in Christ! He is risen, and we are risen with Him!

John 3:16 (Amplified) “For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life.