The Cure

The Cure

Bible: John 1:10-18

The law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ (V.17).

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If a doctor called you and in a serious voice said, “Please come and see me as soon as you can. I have something to tell you,” you’d be worried! Your first response might be, “No, I don’t want to know.” But then you’d go, because it’s only when you know what the problem is that you can also find out the cure.

God, our great doctor, has some bad news for us: “There is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one” (ROMANS 3:11-12). None of us are that good at loving the God who made us (often we totally ignore Him!). We deserve death “and after that to face judgement” (HEBREWS 9:27). That’s the bad news.

But He also gives us the answer. As soon as the first people turned away from Him, God promised to send Someone to rescue them (GENESIS 3:15). We’re told, “Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (JOHN 1:17). But how does that help? Jesus came to earth to bring us God’s grace, something that none of us deserve because we all sin (fall short of God’s ways). He came to pay for our sin by His own death and make us God’s people once more. He came to be the “truth” that would bring us back to God and “save his people from their sins” (MATTHEW 1:21).

Listen to what our great doctor has to say in the Bible about our problem. Then accept His cure—the gift of a new, forgiven life with Him through Jesus.

ONLY JESUS CAN CURE US.

Youth Edition – Our Daily Bread Ministries