February 27, 2025

REDEEMED FROM DEATH

Hosea 13:14

“I will deliver them out of the hand of Hades
And will redeem them from death.
Where is your penalty, O death?
O Hades, where is your sting?
Pity is hidden from My eyes.”

Encouraging Words

John 3: 16 tells us that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son to save the world from perishing and to give them eternal life. Throughout the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, we find passages like this one that proclaim God’s desire to save all of His creation and especially his created children. I do not subscribe to universalism, but who am I to say who gets saved and who does not? Who am I to set the rules that God must abide by? For that matter, who is anyone who thinks they can do this? I believe that no one, especially me, deserves God’s grace and mercy, and yet He chooses to bestow it upon me, upon us. This belief makes it all the more important to love my neighbor, whomever they may be. Glory be to God!