What more could I do to persuade you?


When you’re tempted to doubt God’s love for you, stand before the cross and look at the wounded, dying, disfigured Savior, and realize why He is there. I believe His Father would whisper to us, ‘Isn’t this sufficient? I haven’t spared My own Son; I deformed and disfigured and crushed Him — for you. What more could I do to persuade you that I love you?’

C. J. Mahaney, Living the Cross Centered Life (2006)

Jesus is the true and better Isaac who was not just offered up by his Father on the mount but was truly sacrificed for us. While God said to Abraham, “Now I know you love me because you did not withhold your son, your only son whom you love, from me,” now we can say to God, “Now we know that you love me, because you did not withhold your son, your only son, whom you love, from me.”

Tim Keller, from a talk entitled 'Gospel-Centred Ministry' (2007)





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