"For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him" (John 3:17).
This one verse, perhaps more than any other, declares the great purpose of God. His agenda is saving--not judging! He is about correcting rather than condemning. He rescues instead of retaliating. He delivers...not destroys. And Jesus seeks to include us in His mission of rescue. Paul says it this way, "Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation" (2 Corinthians 5:18-19).
Today, let's join Jesus in not holding the sins of people against them.
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