Drawing Nigh to God....series

Drawing Nigh to God

by

Minnie E. Dauphinee

 

Eternal Life for You.....God's Greatest Promise

 

"This is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life."

1 John 2:25

 

Who can meditate upon this promise without, in a measure at least, appreciating what it cost to provide this gift? A full understanding of how much it meant to the Father to give His Son to die for us will ever remain a mystery to the  universe. It was the greatest possible revelation of His love for sinners.

Not alone was the Father in conceiving the plan for this supreme gift. We must ever remember that Christ "gave himself for our sins,  that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father" (Galatians 1:4), He "gave himself a ransom for all" (1 Timothy 2:6).

 

History records that years ago King Theodore of Abyssinia took captive, without good reason, the British consul, Captain Cameron, and his staff, whom he held in a dungeon for many months. Great Britain demanded that the prisoners be released. The king refused; and after several futile negotiations some sixteen thousand British soldiers were sent to Africa. They marched 400 miles under the burning sun and over mountainous country to the very gates of Magdala, where Cameron and his men were held prisoners. They liberated him and took him back to England. It is estimated that it cost the English Government twenty-five million dollars to rescue him.

 

Twenty -five million dollars seems like a tremendous sum to pay for the deliverance of a few prisoners. Yet that was as nothing compared with the price paid to deliver you from Satan's power,  "for you know that you have not been ransomed with anything perishable like silver or gold, ... but with precious blood,... the blood of Christ"  (1 Peter 1:18,19), Goodspeed).

 

"Go to Gethsemane, and there watch with Christ through those hours of anguish, when He sweat as it were great drops of blood. Look upon the Saviour uplifted on the cross. Hear that despairing cry, 'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?' Mark 15:34. Look upon the wounded head, the pierced side, the marred feet. Remember that Christ risked all. For our redemption, heaven itself was imperiled. At the foot of the cross, remembering that for one sinner Christ would have laid down His life, you may estimate the value of a soul"- of your soul. Christ paid a great ransom to provide eternal life for you.