Christmas Day is coming soon, and Christmas atmosphere is everywhere now. To celebrate it, people are preparing colorful Christmas trees, Santa Claus dolls, Christmas gifts, and so on. As a Christian, I won’t forget to express my thanks and praise to God. On Christmas Day, I always recalled that God descended among man from the highest place and was nailed to the cross to redeem all mankind, and my heart couldn’t quiet down for a long time.… I wished greatly to know what strength supported the Lord Jesus to progress towards the place of crucifixion step by step, and to understand His will at that time. However, it was a pity that I understood too little about God’s will then. It was not until I accepted the end-time work of Almighty God—the returned Lord Jesus that I understood it from Almighty God’s words.

Almighty God says, “Although He Himself knew how heavy the responsibility He would bear was when incarnated this time and how cruel the suffering He would face was, nevertheless when He saw that mankind was helpless in sin, and when He saw that mankind lived pitifully under the law and struggled powerlessly, He became more and more grieved in His heart and became more and more eager to save mankind from sin. No matter what difficult situations He would encounter, and no matter what suffering He would undergo, His heart became more and more determined to redeem man who lived in sin. During this course, it could be said that the Lord Jesus knew more and more clearly what work He should do and what commission He should undertake; moreover, He became more and more eager to accomplish the work He would undertake—bearing all the sins of man and atoning for mankind’s sins so that mankind would no longer live in sins, and meanwhile God would no longer remember man’s sins because of the sin offering and thus go on with the next stage of the work of saving mankind. It could be said that in His heart the Lord Jesus was willing to offer up and sacrifice Himself for mankind and willing to be crucified as a sin offering, and He was eager to accomplish this work. So much so that when He saw the miserable condition of mankind’s life, He even more wanted to accomplish His commission soon without an instant’s delay. When He had such an eager mind, He did not consider how greatly He would suffer, nor did He care how much humiliation He would endure. He just had one conviction in His heart: As long as He offered Himself up, as long as He was nailed onto the cross as a sin offering, God’s will would be carried out and God could start a new work, and mankind’s life in sin and mankind’s state of living in sin would be completely changed. His conviction and the thing He was determined to do both had to do with saving mankind. He only had one purpose: to carry out God’s will so that God could carry out the next stage of His work smoothly. This was the Lord Jesus’ mind at that time.” (from A Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh)

From God’s words, I know that God’s heart was in agony when He saw that mankind lived in sin and was powerless to be free from it. God loved mankind. He didn’t hope mankind lived in sin, much less see mankind was fooled by Satan, and He wanted to save man from sin as soon as possible. Even though He knew that, in order to save mankind, He would undergo many sufferings, His will of saving mankind never changed. When man suffers, they want to flinch or try to shorten the time of suffering; however, when God saw the miserable condition of mankind’s life, what He thought was to save them as soon as possible without considering His own gain or loss or the sufferings He would endure. As long as it was beneficial for man to be saved, God was willing to endure all sufferings. He considered His saving mankind as the greatest thing in His heart. God’s love is so genuine and real and touches me deeply. It was this kind of love that supported Him to walk toward the place of crucifixion. And this was God’s will of saving mankind.

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