SCRIPTURE: Psalm 85:10 Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
OBSERVATION: What wisdom can bring “love and faithfulness together?” How can “righteousness and peace kiss each other?” Divine wisdom knew a way in which holiness would not be compromised nor love left unfulfilled.
Indeed, in the wisdom of God, His love is magnified. It is defined in the clearest and most easily understood terms! Just how loving is this God? Look at the answer to this dilemma!
Indeed, in the wisdom of God, His holiness is magnified! How far will God go to remain eternally holy? Just how holy is our God? Look at the answer to this dilemma!
The answer is the cross! In the cross the holiness of God is satisfied as the sinless blood of God’s only begotten Son is shed to pay for our sins! What Holiness! What a payment! There was no special deal for Jesus, even though He was God, the sinless Son! He had to pay the full price for our sin. The wages of sin is death!
In the cross the love of God is satisfied as men who were lost in their sin can boldly approach the throne of God in worship, covered by the precious blood of God’s Son! Their lives, now clean through the blood of Jesus become dwelling places for the Holy Spirit!
In the humble humanity of God, walking dusty roads, experiencing hunger and weariness, love and faithfulness met. And in the bloody, sweaty, suffering of the cross, righteousness and peace kissed each other!
APPLICATION: This was for me! God did this for me! It is hard to believe, but it is true! It is amazing!
PRAYER: “How can I say thanks for the things you have done for me? Things, so undeserved, yet you did to show your love for me…To God be the glory.” (Andre Crouch) Amen.
Pastor Leon
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