Indescribable Gift
The Gift You Can Never Fully Unwrap
SCRIPTURE:
2 Corinthians 9:15 CSB - Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!
OBSERVATION:
Paul challenges the Corinthian church to fulfill their prior promise to collect a gift for the church in Jerusalem. In this chapter, he uses a bit of sarcasm and playful encouragement to urge them to finish the task (2 Corinthians 8:11).
At the end of Chapter 9, we see a glorious verse that really drives home the point Paul is making. We have been given this amazing gift of salvation through Jesus. Should we not want to share this? We must be cheerful givers, not grudgingly or out of extortion, for Jesus did not exemplify this in action or in words.
2 Corinthians 9:15 CSB - Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!
OBSERVATION:
Paul challenges the Corinthian church to fulfill their prior promise to collect a gift for the church in Jerusalem. In this chapter, he uses a bit of sarcasm and playful encouragement to urge them to finish the task (2 Corinthians 8:11).
At the end of Chapter 9, we see a glorious verse that really drives home the point Paul is making. We have been given this amazing gift of salvation through Jesus. Should we not want to share this? We must be cheerful givers, not grudgingly or out of extortion, for Jesus did not exemplify this in action or in words.
When God gives grace, He does not reluctantly open a little finger and maintain a clenched fist full of gifts. I would tell you today that God’s hands are nail-pierced hands, and they are wide open. This fountain of grace is always pouring itself out with no limitation on heaven’s side at all. – Alan Redpath.
Remember that God’s gift of salvation through Jesus Christ is indescribable. What does this mean? To me, it means that the more I study it, experience it, and partake of it, the more I realize the awesomeness of God in this gift. I find that it has no end to its understanding. The more I study it, the more I learn of its enormity, greatness, and unending returns.
Even as I try to describe what this indescribable gift means, I struggle to find ALL the ways to express it. Yet I am encouraged and blessed by how Spurgeon describes it.
Even as I try to describe what this indescribable gift means, I struggle to find ALL the ways to express it. Yet I am encouraged and blessed by how Spurgeon describes it.
Ah, how many times have I, for one, spoken upon this gift during the last forty years! I have spoken of little else. I heard one who said, ‘I suppose Spurgeon is preaching that old story over again.’ Yes, that is what he is doing; and if he lives another twenty years, and you come here, it will be ‘the old, old story’ still, for there is nothing like it.
If you preach Christ, you will never run short. If you have preached ten thousand sermons about Christ, you have not left the shore; you are not out in the deep sea yet. Dive, my brother! With splendour of thought, plunge into the great mystery of free grace and dying love; and when you have dived the farthest, you will perceive that you are as far off the bottom as when you first touched the surface. – Charles Spurgeon.
If you preach Christ, you will never run short. If you have preached ten thousand sermons about Christ, you have not left the shore; you are not out in the deep sea yet. Dive, my brother! With splendour of thought, plunge into the great mystery of free grace and dying love; and when you have dived the farthest, you will perceive that you are as far off the bottom as when you first touched the surface. – Charles Spurgeon.
APPLICATION:
Today, live in this indescribable gift. May it motivate and encourage you, and may we share it with the world around you. So they, too, can be in awe of the awesomeness of this indescribable gift of God, salvation through Jesus Christ, His Son!
PRAYER:
Thank you, Jesus, for this gift of salvation. Truly, there is no end to its glory and awe. As we ponder it, live it, and truly experience it, it is indescribable to me. May I never tire of the “old, old story.”
I heard an old, old story
How a Savior came from glory
How He gave His life on Calvary
To save a wretch like me
I heard about His groaning
Of His precious blood’s atoning
Then I repented of my sins
And won the victory
O victory in Jesus
My Savior forever
He sought me and bought me
With His redeeming blood
He loved me ere I knew Him
And all my love is due Him
He plunged me to victory
Beneath the cleansing flood
Today, live in this indescribable gift. May it motivate and encourage you, and may we share it with the world around you. So they, too, can be in awe of the awesomeness of this indescribable gift of God, salvation through Jesus Christ, His Son!
PRAYER:
Thank you, Jesus, for this gift of salvation. Truly, there is no end to its glory and awe. As we ponder it, live it, and truly experience it, it is indescribable to me. May I never tire of the “old, old story.”
I heard an old, old story
How a Savior came from glory
How He gave His life on Calvary
To save a wretch like me
I heard about His groaning
Of His precious blood’s atoning
Then I repented of my sins
And won the victory
O victory in Jesus
My Savior forever
He sought me and bought me
With His redeeming blood
He loved me ere I knew Him
And all my love is due Him
He plunged me to victory
Beneath the cleansing flood
The gift of salvation through Jesus Christ is so vast and so deep that a lifetime of studying, experiencing, and sharing it will never exhaust its wonder.
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