Thursday, November 21, 2024
Theme: “God loves you and offers you a wonderful plan for your life”
Text: Titus 3:4-5
4. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5. not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
Let us remember:
We were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. We lived in a natural and crude state, without knowledge of God, without obligation of faith, without salvation. We had only our senses and our intuition to act according to our individual motivations. This is how every person was doomed to perdition because Adamic sin condemned us forever and directed us towards eternal loss. And then, God took compassion on our state and decided to deliver us from this rebellion resulting from original sin. He set up a marvelous plan according to his love for humanity. When the goodness of God our Savior and his love for men were manifested, he provided Jesus his only Son to destroy the power of sin and impose his grace and his salvation. He calls us to salvation by his grace and not by our merits. God saved us, not because of the works of righteousness that we would have done, but according to his mercy, by the baptism of regeneration and the renewal of the Holy Spirit. It is not our intercession that made God love us and offer a marvelous plan for our life. It is his mercy and compassion that have pleaded in our favor. Let us be grateful for this grace. Excellent Thursday. Amen.
Alain Louz.-
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