What was it like to have seen Jesus in person, to walk with Him, hear His voice, watch Him minister to people and listen to Him teach? It must have been marvelous to shake His hand, feel His embrace or simply look into His eyes as He spoke to you. Today in our scripture verse found in First John chapter four and verse fourteen, John the apostle declares that He was one who was privileged to do all these things and more. He wrote:
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Savior of the world.
John as a personal eyewitness of this loving Savior has been sharing with us about how much God loves us and how God's love persuades us to love one another. He now declares something that none of us can, “we have seen”. We must admit if we think about it for very long we are envious of John. An old gospel song used the words, “Oh I want to see Him, look upon His face.” And John goes even further with his privilege to now “testify” about it. John bears witness and declares the reason for Jesus being sent - “that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.”
The world needs a Savior. We see the troubles every day and every where. People share lots of rhetoric and proposals, but the problems continue to mount. Campaigns declare “Erase the Hate”, but it seems that the hate increases. We need not look much further than our local newspaper or television news to see that crimes continue against people. Rather than the love one another as John has been telling us, we see rampant violence and harmful activities. We need a Savior, and John in today's verse testifies, “that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.”
Oh how different this world would be if everyone acknowledge the Savior Jesus. Oh how different our love would be toward one another if we simply looked at the example of our Heavenly Father who to a world that needed saving, sent His Son Jesus to share with us how we are to love God and love one another. And yet, so many reject Jesus. So many choose other ways. So many decide that there is no need for this Savior Jesus and deny and reject the very eyewitness of John who saw Him, knew Him, and was taught personally all the ways of love that John ever knew. May all who read these words consider the Savior Jesus once again and allow Him to demonstrate love in its highest degree.
Next time we will look at what happens when a person confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, so read ahead, and we shall share together then.
Until tomorrow...there is more...
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