God came to earth to save HIs creation and no greater love exists. The undeserved and unmerited love of Father in the gift of salvation given by the sacrifice of the Cross of Jesus Christ. We are never alone with Holy Spirit who indwells believers. Prayer changes everything!! All praise honor and glory to our God.
It is all about Jesus, the gift of God, to offer salvation to His creation.
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
And His ears are open to their prayers;
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
God hears the prayers of those who place their love and trust in Him. Bad things can and do happen to good people but we are never left to deal with it alone. We have indwelling Holy Spirit who walks with us. Holding the Lord God in our hearts we can share the good news of Jesus Christ to anyone who ask. He doesn’t want anyone to perish and we were created for good works in His name. Christ suffered for us that He could bring us to God and live and dwell in Him.
Matthew 12:38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.” But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
The keepers of the Law the Scribes and Pharisees, sought a sign and the only one Jesus gave was that He would suffer, die and be buried and would rise again in 3 days. He compared it to Jonah and his 3 days in the whale.
Luke 9:20-22
20 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered and said, “The Christ of God.” 21 And He strictly warned and commanded them to tell this to no one, 22 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.” The New King James Version
Following His resurrection, Jesus’ disciples would be commissioned to make known explicitly what His signs and wonders revealed—Jesus’ identity as God’s Son and anointed one. Faithlife Study Bible
The emphasis here is on the messianic role of Jesus. He is the Promised One who was ushering in a new era. However, Jesus would soon reveal to the disciples that His messiahship would have elements of suffering that the disciples did not expect.
Jesus knew that the messianic role that the people and the disciples expected was much different from His actual role as the Messiah. The element of suffering that the Messiah would endure was not a part of popular expectation. Thus Jesus’ messiahship could not be openly proclaimed before the true nature of the Messiah was revealed.
That He must suffer, be rejected, be killed and be raised is the first of several predictions of Jesus’ suffering and vindication.
The disciples struggled to understand what Jesus was saying. They could not comprehend how Jesus’ predictions fit into God’s plan. Only after Jesus’ resurrection and His explanation of the Scriptures to them did they begin to understand. The NKJV Study Bible
It is an unspeakable comfort that our Lord Jesus is God’s Anointed; this signifies that he was both appointed to be the Messiah, and qualified for it. Jesus discourses concerning his own sufferings and death. Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Matthew 16:1–28 Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him asked that He would show them a sign from heaven.
Mark 8:30–9:1 Then He strictly warned them that they should tell no one about Him. And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again…
Matthew 17:22–23 Now while they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him, and the third day He will be raised up.” And they were exceedingly sorrowful.
Luke 9:23–27 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it…
After all, in the “small world”, we are hearts that touch. Which may sound too sentimental in a real world; where hearts touch and hearts hurt, hearts hope and hearts break, hearts heal and hearts splinter, and blessedly, from those splintered places hearts give again and again and make our world a better place. Sabbath Moments
The Spirit is a person. And Jesus calls him the Paraclete. Now translators land on different, yet similar, translations for this Greek word: “Comforter,” “Counselor,” “Advocate,” “Intercessor.” But the central message is the same: we are not alone. Max Lucado
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