Friday! Proverbs!
Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for;
through the fear of the Lord evil is avoided.
Proverbs 16v6 NIV
Our Atonement. Where everything is put right, our sin is paid for, and the opportunity for our relationship with God to be restored is created.
Love is the motivation, and faithfulness is the action that led to atonement.
God's Love.
God's Faithfulness.
That's the gospel right here in the middle of Proverbs, written when? 900 years before Jesus...yet point way beyond their sacrificial system to Him.
These are two things that we can rely on:
God's Love
God's Faithfulness
Our atonement doesn't depend on our love or our faithfulness, but His.
How good is that!
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