| “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” – 2 Corinthians 9:15 |
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| Trying to DESCRIBE the INDESCRIBABLE Occasionally I get the opportunity to watch a sunrise over a beach in south Florida. As the morning broke one particular morning the sky was filled with such brilliant color that I found myself at a loss for the exact words to describe what I was seeing. It was so incredible that I found myself saying this handiwork of God is INDESCRIBABLE. Have you ever found yourself looking at something that you found INDESCRIBABLE? The Apostle Paul was a wonderful and gifted wordsmith who could give us very descriptive words to define what love does in 1 Corinthians 13 but when he sought to describe God’s gift of Jesus Christ as our SAVIOR and the gift of salvation that He and He alone provides he found the best he could do to describe this gift was to say it was INDESCRIBABLE – too extraordinary for description. Ponder what God did for us in GIVING His Son (think John 3:16!) and what Jesus GAVE (think Galatians 1:4 “Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father). Is it not beyond description? Can any words truly express properly the greatness of the gift? I don’t know about you, but it is so very hard for my mind to comprehend such love, such a free gift!! Yet while the gift of salvation from our gracious Savior is so hard to describe and comprehend it is not a gift that cannot be understood by a young child. A child can hear the glorious gospel and be saved. I challenge you to ponder the gift of salvation that you received from our Heavenly Father. As you ponder consider just how truly indescribable His gift is as you seek to fully express how meaningful and grateful you are for God’s gift of salvation. I suspect the exercise will be very humbling as to consider His gift of salvation is to consider what it took for our Savior to provide such a gift. He loved us and washed our sins away by dying on the cross. He restored us to a relationship with God that comes with a promise of an eternal home in heaven when we die. WHAT A GIFT! What an undeserving gift. No wonder the Apostle Paul described it as INDESCRIBABLE. Verse to DATE the Word on September 15 (9/15) is 2 Corinthians 9:15. It says, “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” Continue strong with gratitude for God’s indescribable gift of salvation, And remember to DATE THE Word |