Reconciled To God By Christ's Death

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for January 24
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Reconciled To God By Christ's Death

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.
Rom. 5:10.

The cross is invested with a power that language cannot express.
Christ's sacrifice in behalf of the human race puts to shame our meager
efforts and methods to meet and uplift humanity, to help sinful men and
women to find Jesus.

The work of the sons and daughters of God must be of a different
character than has yet been manifested by a large number. If they love
Jesus, they will have enlarged ideas of the love that has been expressed
for fallen man, which required the provision of so expensive an offering
to save the human race. Our Saviour asks the cooperation of every son
and daughter of Adam who has become a son or daughter of God. . . . Our
Saviour declares that He brought from heaven as a donation eternal life.
He was to be lifted up upon the cross of Calvary to draw all men unto
Him. How then shall we treat the purchased inheritance of Christ?
Tenderness, appreciation, kindness, sympathy, and love should be shown
to them. Then we may work to help and bless one another. In this work we
have more than human brotherhood. We have the exalted companionship of
heavenly angels. They cooperate with us in the work of enlightening high
and low.

Having engaged in the work, the amazing work of our redemption, Christ
determined in council with His Father to spare nothing, however costly,
to withhold nothing however highly it might be estimated, that would
rescue the poor sinner. He would give all heaven to this work of
salvation, of restoring the moral image of God in man. . . . To be a
child of God is to be one with Christ in God, and to put forth our hands
in earnest, self-sacrificing love to strengthen and bless the souls that
are perishing in their sins. 

>From Devotional: Our Father Cares, p. 33, 34.