You have favor from God already

1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

This is along the same lines of what I wrote the other day. Do we believe that God wants to punish us?

Let me ask that again just to make sure you understand the question. Do YOU believe that God wants to punish you?

If you do, then you don't understand his perfect love for you? Then you are taking for granted that he gave up his only begotten son so he could give you his perfect love.

So if you believe that God should punish you, you are believing a terrible lie. You are living under the bondage of punishment. You see, whatever we do, always falls short of the perfection of God. Yet he loved us SO much he forsaked his son and in that act of love, he fulfilled his plan to make us perfect.

So in Christ, we are more than conquerors. In Christ, we are made perfect and we are righteous.

But we get tied up with religious activity thinking that it will earn us favor from God. We fail to realize that we already have favor from God which was granted to us almost 2000 years ago at the cross.
Bo Lora
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