Word for the day by Christian Education Forum

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Written In Red
1 John 4:7-19
God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.(1 John 4:9)
My first Bible was printed mostly in black type, but some of its words were in red. It didn’t take me long to discover that the ones in red had been spoken by Jesus.
More than 100 years ago, a man named Louis Klopsch published the first “red-letter” Bible. As he thought about Jesus’ words in Luke 22:20, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you,” he purposely used blood-red ink to call specific attention to His words.
The words of the Bible are priceless to us because they tell of the “love letter” God sent 2,000 years ago in the Person of His Son (1 John 4:10).
Jesus’ purpose in coming to earth as a Man was to die, to be sacrificed, to give His life for ours. God’s plan was written in red—written with “the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (1 Peter 1:19).
Those of us who have accepted God’s gift of love are called to be “letters” to those who don’t know Him. We are epistles of Christ “written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God” (2 Cor. 3:3).
Long before a day in February was set aside to celebrate love, the world received a love letter—and that changed everything (John 3:16).
PRAYER
Dear Lord, help me to always the great price that you paid for me when you came down to this earth.Amen.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
If you’d like to know the love of God the Father, Come to Him through Jesus Christ, His loving Son; He’ll forgive your sins and save your soul forever, and you’ll love forevermore this faithful One.
Christian Education Forum, Diocese of NAE of the Mar Thoma Church

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