Even a little handwritten note on a Post-it note can be extremely
meaningful.
Ask Sophia Wilcox.
When Sophia was in
middle school, her stepdad, Brian Sandusky, would scribble a little note
of encouragement to her and stick it on her bedroom door.
What did these notes
mean to Sophia? Did they help her through some difficult times in her
life?
Perhaps the answer to
those questions is revealed in what Sophia did for her stepdad on
Father’s Day this year. She presented with a gift: a frame with a
picture of the two of them surrounded by the entire collection of
Post-it notes that he had left on her door for her.
Sophia’s video of the
moment when he unwrapped her gift has gone viral.
“These
are all your notes,” he whispered through tears.
“Yeah, I
kept them all,” Wilcox said.
She kept
them for over 6 years. Sophia, now in college, wanted her stepdad to
know how much those notes have meant to her, so she gifted them back to
him with a constant, visual reminder. *
Do you
realize that God has “posted notes” of His deep and abiding love for
you?
Here are
a few of His notes:
“For God
so loved the world [including you and me] that He gave His one and only
Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal
life” (John 3:16 NIV).
“This is
how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the
world that we might live through Him. This is love: not that we loved
God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for
our sins” (1 John 4:9-10).
He
posted these notes for you and for me even when we were “unlovable.” He
loves us despite the fact that we have sinned against Him (Romans
3:23). He loves us so much that He didn’t just write about His love; He
demonstrated it.
“But God
demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
God
loves us so much that He gave His Son to die on the cross for our sins.
Through Jesus’ atoning sacrifice, we can receive the forgiveness of our
sins, be adopted into God’s family, and receive the gift of eternal life
(Ephesians 1:7; Romans 6:23; 8:15-17).
God will save, adopt, and give eternal life to those who place their
faith
and trust
in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31), turn from their sins in
repentance
(Acts
17:30-31),
confess
Jesus
before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are
baptized
(immersed)
into Christ for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38). He will continue
to cleanse from sin those who continue to walk in the light of His Word
(1 John 1:7-9).
God’s
notes of His love for us have been posted. Read them in His Word, the
Bible. Respond to His love through your trusting obedience.
You will
become part of the greatest love story ever written.
-- David
A. Sargent
* Information gleaned from “Maryland
college student brings stepdad to tears with collage of notes he
left her in middle school” by Brie Stimson of Fox News,
www.foxnews.com.
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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