Do You Do It?

Thursday. 1 John 3: 13-22.

When Jesus died for us, it wasn’t because we were lovable. It was because we were so deeply tangled in sin. And our sin had to be got rid of somehow, it was hurting us so. It is easy to love the lovable. He loved us when we were unlovable. When we love the unlovable, even if we cannot like them, and are even wilHng to give our lives daily to win them, that’s the real touch of the real Jesus spirit.

Open in the reader The Bent-Knee Time

Restored from a scan of the 1918 edition, with page headers and numbers removed and words rejoined across line breaks. Scan-derived text, still being proofread; compare the original scan before quoting.