How He Loves Us

Hey guys!

Three major things stuck out for me in this devo.
1. The whole part about "Look...lift up your eyes...get your eyes off yourself," most specifically, "yourself." Kev said previously about our works not mattering, and how rattling that can be. I often find myself so focused on what I can bring to the table for God, how often, and how much. But reading this passage reminds me of taking my eyes off my own heart, and really looking into Jesus. Someone just mentioned to me "It is far greater to know Jesus than to do something for Him." (so right!!)
2. When breaking down World, Sin, Takes Away, and Lamb of God, the Sin paragraph hit me pretty hard in that Jesus took away SIN, not just sins. We so often link "sin" to all the bad things-physically or mentally. But what sin's goal is is to break that relationship with God, and when Jesus died to rise again from the dead, he did just that; so we could have a perfect relationship with God.
aaaaand 3. I thought it was cool that when the devo says "Ask John the Baptist-Who is Jesus?" John says Jesus IS the Lamb...He IS the one who takes away...He IS the one who...He IS. Jesus didn't show up to take away the sin of the world for just a couple of days, or years. He IS taking away the sin of the world, right now. He IS the lamb, right now. And he LOVES us, right now. Jesus did all these incredible, mind-blowing things not because he loved us while he was hanging from the cross, he did them because he loves us now! Ohhhh, how he loves us :)

So pumped for this summer! Praying for everyone!
Julia