He is no fool to give up what he can't keep to gain what he can't lose.
-Jim Elliot
Life is full of so many things like our hopes and dreams or things that we hold too tight to. Fearing we many lose it. Hey, I'm as guilty as the rest of ya'll. "But what if we gave up it all?" What? We are americans, we live to get things and show them off to people and our hopes and dreams are what we live for right?
Some yes, but that is all they life for then they die and lose everything they've worked for. "But what if we give it all up"- to gain what we can't lose. Life forever with a God who loves us.
1st Coronations 13:13 "Now Faith, Hope and love remain, but the greatest of these is love."
Why is Love the greatest? Love is a weak frail thing that just comes and goes. This is not talking about the frail weak love of 21st century America Romantic movies. Even some of that you get good love stories. But here is the best one you'll ever hear. (Bible)
Through this whole book you'll hear many stories about many fantastic real events on history. But for awhile now I've thought my bible as a love story for this reason. You got God and he makes everything in six days. We can't even understand that. All the detail he put into everything we are still trying to understand it all. Then Satan tempted Eve with disobeying one of God's only rules. And we messed everything God created in a second. Think God was awesome with making everything in six days. Then Eve and Adam messed it up in a second with sin. Don't you think God would be a little up set that they messed all his perfection up? A little but he cared and loved them, and clothed them so they wouldn't be ashamed. But God knew that his plan was in progress. And so he began to write his love story.
Through the old testament God watched over his chosen people that one day his son would come to the earth as a descendent from. Then as the Romans connected the world with roads and God's timing was made perfect. Jesus came out of love for us.
Not that frail or weak love. A true perfect love that can only come from a perfect God. As a perfect God he is just and payment must be made for our fall in our sin. In the old testament they would sacrifice animals for God. So God out of His love for the world Gave his Son to us to die as a criminal. And that is what we did to Jesus, and he died willingly out of love for us. Maybe there is some you'd die for, others maybe not. But would you take the place of a criminal on death row, and take his sentence and die while he walked free? I don't know if I could after knowing what that criminal did to receive that sentence. But that is what Jesus did for us.
But God defeated Hell that Glories day with love on that Good Friday. He stayed for a bit then went to heaven to prepare a place and promisses to return and take all of those who are his back to heaven. And that is the true love story. Find anything better, I'd love to hear it. And this is true.
1st Coronations 13:13 Now faith, hope and love remain and the greatest of these is love.
Faith in Jesus as our Savior, Hope in the day that is coming in and Love the Greatest of these.
I'd gladly give up all to gain what I can not lose, the true love of God. And maybe I can share that love I found with others around me.
He is no fool to give up what he can't keep to gain what he can't lose.
