Do you know how much you are loved?
The Rescue Plan
Posted by Anna Brewin on Apr 22, 2022
Do you know how much you are loved? Before time began, you were in My sights. I knew you and loved you. In your broken and sinful place, your prideful and independent place, your rebellious place.
I saw all you were and I loved you. I also saw all you could become, all I had designed you to be, with you allowing Me to help you.
You were not alone. The God, bigger than time and space, the one who fills eternity, had eyes fixed only upon you. If you had been the only one, you were important enough to be the one I would come after.
We knew our perfect world would be changed by Adam and Eve's actions. But we put into place Our rescue plan. Before I had created the world, I had agreed to the mission to save mankind from the devil and themselves. To save you from you. For you don't know how to save yourself. Your best efforts cannot fix your brokenness. Your strength isn't enough.
You needed Me in your good times to keep you from pride. You needed Me in your bad times, to keep you from despair and from letting the darkness envelop you.
Do you really know how much I love you? I knew my mission to rescue you would lead Me to be betrayed by those closest to Me. Cruelly betrayed and condemned by those I came to rescue. I know what it is like to be hurt by those who have been close to your heart. Those who are in your inner circle. Yet I chose to walk through this because I saw you. I saw you in My sights and I knew you could not rescue yourself, You needed Me to follow through.
When darkness came with such great intensity and pressure in Gethsemane, I wanted to quit. I wanted to walk away. This was too hard! Too much! But My love for you would not let Me quit. To see the alternative of your eternal destruction was not something I was prepared to accept. My eyes were on you in Gethsemane. My eyes were fixed on you. Alone, when I needed the support and prayers of My closest friends, they were not there for Me, so Father sent me help from heaven to give Me strength to keep going. My love for you would not let me fail.
Then to be able to call on legions of angels to rescue Me. I chose to submit to the plan, the rescue mission of the human race.
Denied and betrayed, I followed the plan. Spat on and jeered at, I followed the plan. When they forced the crown full of sharp thorns upon My head, piercing My skin in agonising force, I followed the plan.
When they tore the skin from My back with the whipping, pulling My muscles and skin away from Me, exposing the bones and sinews, I followed the plan. For your face was before Me, My rescue plan for YOU.
When I was forced to carry the cross with its weight pounding upon every open wound, as I was weak from it all, My heart pounded loud and strong: ‘Follow the rescue plan!’
When My hands and feet were nailed, shooting fire through My whole being and My bones were screaming as they were jolted into place. Trying to hold my body together ‘I will follow the plan!’
I cried out to Father ‘Forgive them for they know not what they are doing!’ Your sin was what was pinning Me to that cross. Your rebellion and shortcomings were the nails holding me there.
But love was what would not let Me go. Love was what kept Me from calling the angels to rescue Me. Love was keeping Me from crying out - ‘I’m out! This is too much!’ And when all of your sin was placed upon Me, and darkness like never seen before enveloped My soul, Father allowed the great moment of hell’s triumph to seize them in their time of glee. To be totally alone in that place, becoming all that had separated you from My Father. To become your sin, to become your punishment, your rebellion, your pride, your selfishness, your independence. But My heart was beating ‘Follow the plan!’
To allow all hell to celebrate in their hour, dancing and taunting Me that they had won. I was silent, My heart bursting. ‘Follow the plan!’
Satan and his hordes of hell had given Me the worst they had. ‘Follow the plan!’ My heart would shout!
But on the Sunday morning, the plan had fulfilled its purpose. I came bursting out of hell's clutches to the place of life, and victory. It was complete! The rescue mission had been accomplished! Your face in front of Me was worth it all. Who you could be. What I could rescue you from. For you.
My love that was tortured for you, ripped apart for you, stripped and humiliated for you, abandoned and forsaken for you. Sacrificed for you. Freely and willingly laid down for you. Love kept me on that rescue plan. Love would not let Me let you go. You are loved too much. Too valuable. Too precious.
If you were the only person on this planet, I would have done it for you and I would do it again. You were My reason. Do you really know just HOW much you are loved?
Accept this gift of life I give to you, let Me be your rescuer, your Saviour, your deliverer, let Me be your Lord and your God. Embrace Me and My rescue plan!
God Almighty
John 3:16-18 The Message “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him."
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1. You have a past.
You can't go back, but He can. The bible says 'Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.' (Hebrews 13:8) He can walk into those places of sin and failure, wipe the slate clean, and give you a new beginning.
2. You need a friend.
Jesus knows the worst about you, yet He believes the best. Why? Because He sees you not as you are, but as you will be when He gets through with you. What a friend!
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Lord Jesus Christ, I'm sorry for the things I have done wrong in my life. I ask your forgiveness. Thank you for dying on the cross for me to be set free from my sins. Please come into my life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and be with me forever. Thank You Lord Jesus, amen.
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