Me: You have a long way to go!
Prodigal: Yes, but Jesus is by my side 🙂
Me: I will be with you too!
This is from Dr. J. L. Packer
that Jesus Christ our Lord, moved by a love that was determined to do everything necessary to save us, endured and exhausted the destructive divine judgement for which we were otherwise inescapably destined, and so won us forgiveness, adoption and glory. To affirm penal substitution is to say that believers are in debt to Christ specifically for this, and that this is the mainspring of all their joy, peace and praise both now and for eternity.
Love is the foundation that changed everything. It was not control or power. It was Jesus and a love that would continue to shock the world for thousands of years.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Isaiah 52:7
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
