John 8:42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.

Jesus did not force Himself upon the world. He did not make up a time and go do it. There was a time where God knew was best for all mankind and that time was when Christ came to us.

When we begin to see that we also begin to understand how much God loves us because He sent Jesus at the best time for us.

This was not the best time for Him, nor the best time for Jesus the man; this was the best time for us to receive all we can from God.

Explaining this to people can be hard; so use Christ’s words instead of trying to make our own up to please ourselves.

John 6:33 For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.

Christ is here described as the bread of God because He did all things possible to ensure we were given God’s Word for our survival.

Our spiritual lives depend on the word of God, upon our understanding of it, upon the guidance given to us by the Holy Spirit and on our choices we make.

Christ made this all possible for us by giving His life so our choice can be effective and eternal. If He had not paid the price for our sins we would still have to atone for those sins time and time again.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Notice how this verse does not say things like “The punishment for the worst sin is death” or “The punishment for the unforgivable sin is death”; it simply says “sin” which means each and every sin.

Is that harsh? It may sound very harsh to us, but for a God who cannot abide sin in any form it is justice!

God has given us a way of leaving that sin behind. He has given us freedom to choose a life without sin.

We have to choose and we have to make the difference by inviting Christ into our lives first of all.