Non-logical Love

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I just bought a book from some charity book fair held in Leisure Mall. Here’s a quote I would like to share.

“Here is the true meaning and purpose of the cross. On it a divinely ordained exchange took place. First, Jesus endured in our place all the evil consequences that were due by divine justice to our iniquity. Now in exchange, God offers us all the good that was due to the sinless obedience of Jesus.

Stated more briefly, the evil due to us came upon Jesus, that, in return, the good due to Jesus might be offered to us. God is able to offer this to us without compromising His own eternal justice, because Jesus has already endured on our behalf all the just punishment due to out iniquities.

All of this proceeds solely out of the unfathomable grace of God, and it is received solely by faith. There is no logical explanation in terms of cause and effect. None of us has ever done anything to deserve such an offer, and none of us can ever do anything to earn it.”

Derek Prince

The cause and effect logic has been injected into our mind on and off, since we were young.  However it is not logic that after we sin, we still get to be forgiven by God solely by putting our faith in Christ Jesus our LORD. That is exactly why Derek Prince stated that there is no logical explanation. If you really see through it, the effect has taken place, not on us but of Jesus who took our sins and took the effect (eternal judgement of sins) on our behalf.

Many people, including my beloved father cannot accept the fact that after doing all the evils, by just believing in Jesus, you can be forgiven. But this is grace of God that you do not understand. Because you want logic, and it is not logical in terms of cause and effect.

Why, I would like to ask, just like you always ask yourselves. Why do you have to think so much when it doesn’t require you to think when God offers you the salvation? Why do you go without thinking twice going your own way which one day will come to a dead end? Is it better for you to walk on the path that lead to a dead end or a way that leads you to salvation?

Solely by faith, yes. Need not to work like a donkey to please God, you’ll never earn it, because whatever you do is not worthy enough to exchange for that, but now God gives to you as a gift, take it or never. Do good because you want to do it and you love to do it for the glory of God. Do not do it because you have to do it so you’ll survive, that’s being selfish.

(I jumped off my bed to write this down immediately in case I lost my inspirations, I always do, Holy Spirit moved me, I want to make that move.)

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