LOVE GAVE

by Tammy Phillips
April 5, 2023

“For GOD so loved the world that He GAVE His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” (John 3:16-17 NKJV)

“GOD is LOVE.” (1 John 4:16)

God gave. God=Love. LOVE GAVE!
What did Love give during the Passion week?  

Love patiently listened to the strife of twelve at His last supper.
Love agonized in the garden.
Love sweat like great drops of blood.
Love was sorrowful and very heavy.
Love was exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death
Love knew the cup he was to bear and did it anyways.
Love asked Abba Father that he not have to bear the cup, three times.
Love said the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
Love said save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
Love said not my will but my Father’s.
Love found His best friends sleeping through his darkest hour.
Love was betrayed. 
Love said, “I AM.” Judas and the multitude went backward and fell to the ground.
Love did not call down  80,000 angels to fight the multitude against Him.
Love was bound.
Love was allowed Himself to be taken captive by a multitude.
Love was again forsaken by the disciples closest to him.
Love was repeatedly spit in the face.
Love was shamed.
Love was humiliated.
Love was insulted.
Love remained silent.
Love was punched.
Love was mocked and made fun of.
Love was beat.
Love was blindfolded.
Love was slapped on the face by the multitude.
Love was reproached, reviled, and blasphemed.
Love was vehemently falsely accused.
Love remained silent. 
Love was utterly despised.
Love was made no account.
Love was mocked again.
Love was scourged.
Love was stripped and tied in a bending posture to a pillar.
Love was whipped with leather thongs, weighted with sharp pieces of bone or lead, which tore the flesh of both his back and his breast. Love was beaten and beaten and beaten
Love was stripped naked in front of about 600 soldiers.
Love was robed in a scarlet robe.
Love was crowned with a crown of thorns.
Love was mocked again.
Love was spit on again.
Love was nailed to a cross.
Love was crucified.
Love said, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”
Love said, “”Dear woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.”
Love said, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
Love was mocked again by the soldiers at Calvary.
Love cried with a loud voice, “It is finished.” and gave up the ghost.
Love died so we could live.
Love declared our debt, “paid in full.”
Love was buried for three days and nights.
Love defeated death and the grave. 
Love arose as He as he said He would.
LOVE LOVED US THIS MUCH.  
Love gave so that we may be saved. 
Love gave so that we could live.
Thank you, JESUS!

I enCOURAGE you to accept the love and life that Jesus died so we could have. Choose Jesus.  

Viva Magenta:  Live. Breathe. Be…saved.