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Thankful For Calvary

4/10/2014

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“Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood even the forgiveness of sins.”

Colossians 1:12-14

Oswald Chambers wrote, “The only basis on which God can forgive us is the tremendous tragedy of the Cross of Christ. To base our forgiveness on any other ground is unconscious blasphemy. The only ground on which God can forgive our sin and reinstate us to His favor is through the Cross of Christ. There is no other way! Forgiveness, which is so easy for us to accept, cost the agony at Calvary. We should never take the forgiveness of sin, the gift of the Holy Spirit, and our sanctification in simple faith, and then forget the enormous cost to God that made all of this ours.”

With all that we have to be thankful for, at the top of our list should be the finished work of the Lord Jesus on Calvary.  Just as the Apostle Paul wrote in our Scripture, we should be “Giving thanks unto the Father.” I am afraid that we grow cold and stale as time marches by when it comes to our gratitude for what has been done for us in the saving of our soul.  How soon we forget and as we forget we take for granted the sacrifice, the agony, the humiliation and the violence that played out upon that hill so many years ago.

 I am thankful for God’s kindness and love. The saving of my soul never grows old. The measure of our gratefulness should be in the fact that we were so far from God and that our sin was the cause of the distance, yet God commended His love toward us while we were yet sinners.

Let’s allow the depth of our gratitude to be fueled by the measure of the sacrifice that Jesus Christ endured.  We should be thankful indeed for such a wonderful Salvation.


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