by Tammy Phillips
December 23, 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 is Love. LOVE GAVE!
What did Love give?
Love stepped down from heaven and came to us.
Love came entered the earth humbly as a precious baby.
Love grew into a faultless teenager and then to a man.
Love readily accepted his assignment to die for us.
Love patiently listened to the strife of twelve at His last supper.
Love agonized in the garden.
Love was in such agony that he sweat 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 fell backward to the ground.
Love did not call down a legion 80,000 angels to fight the multitude against Him.
Love was bound.
Love 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.
Love came as baby JESUS!
I enCOURAGE you to stop and reflect on what the birth of Jesus really means to mankind. Accept the love. Turn from your sin and this wicked world. Accept the love of Jesus who died so we could have life more abundantly. Choose Jesus.
Viva Magenta: Live. Breathe. Be loved. Be saved.
Complete in Him 