There are many ways that God has revealed Himself to us. We are just hard-headed and ignorant to always reject and deny Him. For a fact, we already know deep inside us that He lives and that He is the only God who made the heavens and the earth and has engineered our salvation. Many people denied His existence, but when it comes to deep inside or through nature, they can never deny that indeed there is a supreme being who is looking out for us and who made us. Now, we must understand that indeed our God lives and He is true. He has revealed Himself to us through nature and through His Word. 

So, as we know, God revealed Himself and His plan for our salvation through His Word. Our verse today is a letter of Paul to the Corinthians to remind that Christ died for our sins, that He was buried and He was raised from the dead according to the Scriptures. Paul carefully noted that he is passing this knowledge and wisdom that was told and taught to him by the disciples before him. Clearly this just means that according to the Word of God, the message of the Gospel remains the same and true. Even until now, we know that the heart of the Gospel is Christ’s coming here in the world, death and His resurrection. 

Now, we know this truth and have been accepting this truth, since we knew it by heart. However, we have to remember that the coming of Christ here in the world is indeed for us, to die on the cross for us, we also have to understand that His resurrection is also needed. Most of the time, we do not give importance to His resurrection. What marvels us the most is His death— that He died in our stead. Yet we need to understand that His death and His victory over sin and death would be a victory if He would rise again, and so He did. So, let us always remember to acknowledge and give importance to the resurrection of Christ. It is not just His death, but also His victory over sin when He rose again. 

Therefore, as Christians, like Paul we must also share this truth to others and with the generation after us that Christ died for our sins and He rose up again declaring His victory according to the Scriptures. May we always base our knowledge and wisdom to the Word of God that through it, God has revealed Himself to us. Let us always remember that the Word of God will stand and that His Word is true even to the test of time. The Scriptures are literally the Word of God and coming from His mouth. May we don’t doubt this and believe this with all our hearts.

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The cross of Jesus is our only hope, and our only truth.

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He is the price and our sacrifice! Indeed, through His wounds we are healed.

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It is so hard for us to admit that we are wrong. We have this awful attitude that as long as we can deny that we did something wrong, we will really do it. “Over my dead body!”, is a famous statement that we usually hear during fights and arguments. People usually put that statement together with, “I'm not admitting anything.” Thus, this just shows how hard-headed we are and full of pride. 

Now, in this holy week, we will be reminded about the importance of humility. This season is the season where we need to be reminded that it is our sins that caused Jesus to suffer. The people that time might have looked up to Jesus hanging on the cross with the thought that Jesus deserved it for He failed and He had sinned. As we also remember that time, we might think that Jesus sinned but in fact, Jesus obeyed His Father’s will always. He never sinned and He never fell short. 

Thus, this leaves us to the understanding that Jesus indeed died for us. He did not die because He sinned, He died because He was our atoning sacrifice. Jesus is the lamb that was slain. Although we never deserve it, still He chose to save us and to die for us. So, given our wrong mindset of how Jesus died, prophet Isaiah finally mentioned that Jesus was pierced because of our transgressions. Isaiah did not say that Jesus suffered because of His transgressions or because of your transgressions, but Isaiah used the word “ours” so that everyone will know that Christ’s death was all because of us. 

Again, in this Holy Week, we will revisit the time when Jesus was pierced because of our transgressions. He was lashed so many times, His hands and feet were nailed and His head holded the crown of thorns. When we think about it, it could’ve been us. It could’ve been us who were pierced in the side, whose feet and hands were nailed, who were lashed and who wore the crown of thorns because that was our punishment. Those things that Jesus suffered were all because of our sins, the payment for all the sins we committed. 

However, we are weak and Jesus loves us so much that He took all of those for us. The restoration, the peace that we are now enjoying in the presence of God was bought with a price and that is Jesus. Indeed that we are bought at a price, and that price was not cheap. It took Jesus, the treasure of heaven as a payment. Therefore, by Jesus’ wounds, we are healed. Some translations used the word “stripes”— indeed by His stripes, the stripes He got because of the lashed and spear pierced in His body, we are healed. It is even so gore to think that it took the suffering of another person for us to be saved but it is the truth. 

It takes the blood of an innocent man to shed for the whole world to be saved and that innocent man is Jesus Christ. There is no one righteous, not even one, so it took Jesus Christ who is God to humble Himself and dwell among us— sinners so we will be saved. Now, it is time for us to be humble also and recognize that our salvation comes from Him only. We have to always remember that because of us Jesus suffered and that we should remember that indeed He loves us so much. It is not because of our merit but it is the work of God because of grace. 

Therefore, may we always remember to admit our wrongs and understand that we need a Savior. Although we are still at the moment of denial, God remains faithful that He saved us while we are still sinners. So, God really understands us but that does not mean that we will live our lives deaf and blind. We have to see that Jesus died for all of us, He did not die for Him but for us. It was all because of us, we are the reason why He gave up His life. Now, we are healed and our relationship with God is restored because of His wounds. May we always put that in our minds and hearts and remember to go to God. Repent and believe that Jesus died and rose again, for us, for our salvation.

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Indeed because through the death of Jesus, we can now have life.

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It is indeed finished!

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“What love is this

That You gave Your life for me

And made a way for me to know You.” - Kari Jobe | What Love is This?

The words above are part of the lyrics of a very beautiful song that is called, “What Love is This?” by Kari Jobe. For all the times that we have heard of the Gospel, we always claim it to be boring and repetitive. Even in our reflections, we are always talking about how Jesus died for us and why did He die. However, we have to understand that we should not feel this way, we should not feel familiar with it. Instead, we should always see it as profoundly amazing in a way that no matter how long we are listening and learning about the sacrifice of Jesus, it will always remain profound. Just like the song, indeed, what love is this? 

Our verse today is somewhat the same to the question from the song above mentioned. In the past verses, Paul mentioned a lot of things that proves how much God loves us. Now, no matter how much evidence we have right now, we still doubt that God is for us. Our sinful selves will never grasp the truth about “God is for us, not against us”. So, Paul wrote this rhetorical question to just state the obvious, “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all— how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” The Father who did not even spared His own Son just to give us our way of salvation, how much more the things we need? He’ll definitely give it to us through His Son! Indeed what love is this?

We have to always remember that God the Father and Creator of all things, has not spared Jesus, His Son, from death so that we will love through Him. If we think even for just one second that God is against us, think again! He even gave up His life just for us, thus He is for us. God is never against us, but instead He is for us. So, we really must not become so lax and familiar with the message of the Gospel because until now, we can still ask ourselves, what love is this? What love is this that He gave up His Son just for us? What love is this that He gave up His own life so we can have our life back through Him? Indeed, what kind of love is this? 

Therefore, we must have this confidence inside us that whatever we ask in the name of Jesus, God is faithful and just to give it. Paul even used the word, “graciously” for us to understand that all of the things we have, from our life down to the smallest thing we have is a grace of God. The sacrifice of Jesus that gave us eternal life through faith in Him is God’s grace and love in manifest. Indeed, nothing that we will ask that will not be given to us because again, God is for us and even His own Son, He has given Him to us. Thus, this just shows how much God loves us. Again, what love is this? 

No matter how many years we have heard of this truth, we should and can still ask what kind of love is this because it is indeed not understandable with our small minds. Our minds that only grasp the love that is conditional. It is very hard for us to understand the unconditional and sacrificial love that Jesus poured unto us. So, it still remains a mystery, amazing and profound. Indeed it is amazing love, amazing grace, amazing truth and amazing God! 

Now, as we know this truth that God is indeed for us that even His own Son, He did not spare for our sake, we must also understand that our salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ because of His grace. We must never forget that the death of Jesus Christ also brings us life. The sacrifice of our Lamb has become our life. Thus, we must not live our lives that still belong to our old self who only gratifies sin and flesh. Instead, we must live our lives with the new self God has given to us together with the crown of glory that we will receive once we are reunited with Him. God indeed loves us so much that He did not just die for us, but He has also changed us for our betterment, so what love is this?

Therefore, let us always remember this amazing truth about God and His love. May we not forget that He is indeed for us and that whatever we will ask in His name, He will grant this in His perfect time. He even gave up His life for us, thus, He will not selfishly not grant our prayers. He will always grant what we ask that is best for us. For indeed we are the reason that He gave up His life, that He suffered and that He was regarded also as a sinner together with the sinners even if He is not. Thus, we can really ask, what love is this? What love is this that Jesus gave up His life for us? What love is this?

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