Evidence of God’s Love

Welcome to Hope Mommies In the Word devotionals. Over the next several weeks, we will be narrowing in on specific truths of the gospel to learn how they direct and inform us in our grief. As we study these truths together, we’d love you to use the comments as a place to dialogue with us about what you are learning and share your answers to the questions below. We pray that you hearts will be encouraged as you dig into God’s Word each week with us! 

“But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to His own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior”
Titus 3:4-6

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God has made us new people; He poured out mercy and now attributes to all of His children the righteousness of Christ. Christ took action for us. He came, died, and rose that the burden and guilt of sin would be ours as believers no more, and in place of hell, we would have a living eternity with God ahead. His love means that we can become holy “born ones” of God—not because of our works but by grace in Christ.

Rebirth sets us dead to sin, makes us alive to God in Christ, and gives us a status as holy, righteous children of God, a status that cannot be revoked any more than we could remove the cross from history.

After loss, our minds might tend to think along the lines of the actions we have been incapable of—we could not know the future to foresee danger to our children, and we could not revive them to life after body and soul were separated. But most significantly, we could never give spiritual salvation to our children. Yet God saw their need too, being sinners by nature from conception (Psalms 51:5). And we can see reasons from Scripture to believe that He mercifully made a unique way through the cross for them to be in heaven with Him too.

While we never had the time to fully know our babies here on earth and we never had opportunity to see them live out many years of this life—God calls them born of Him as living sons and daughters! They are freed to fully enjoy the endless love of God. And we believe that they, with us, have the unspeakable privilege of being evidences of God’s great compassion, grace, mercy, and love forever and ever. See what great love the Father has lavished on our children, that they should be called His!

To be called children of God, we had to be made children of God.

That is what Jesus came to do for our children, who never chose to sin, and for those of us who confess our sin and guilt before God, confess our faith in Christ, and find His grace through His lavishly loving sacrifice.

REFLECT:

1. Read Isaiah 43:18-19 and 2 Corinthians 4:16-17. How do these verses aid you in understanding the new life you have been offered in Christ?
2. How does Lamentations 3:22-24 deepen you view of God’s great love for you?

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