Outpouring

Have you ever been overwhelmed by love and kindness? For instance, rather than just getting a single gift for your birthday from one friend, all of your closest friends showed up for a surprise party and overwhelmed you with dozens of cards and presents. If you’ve ever had a moment like that, you received an outpouring of love.

While a moment like that is wonderful and touching, unfortunately, many of us never get to experience a day like that.

Unless you follow Jesus.

Poured Out On You

Our One Thought from Titus 3 this week helps us see that through Christ, God has given you an outpouring of His love. As we’ve worked through Titus 3:3-7, we find ourselves at the end of verse 5, where we read…

“[B]ut according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,” (Titus 3:5c-6, ESV)

In this verse and a half, we see three things God has poured out upon us:

1. Mercy

Our sin (as we’ve already seen in this series) was bad. Like, really bad. We deserved punishment for our rebelliousness against a perfect, holy God. Yet He delighted to pour out mercy upon us… because that is who He is!

2. The Holy Spirit

Next, we see that God “poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior” the Holy Spirit. In other words, the same power that raised Christ from the dead now dwells in you! (Romans 8:11)

3. Renewal

And through the Holy Spirit, we see the third outpouring of God upon us: regeneration and renewal. When you put your faith in Jesus, you were “born again” (or “regenerated”) and made new (or “renewed”).

So while I hope you one day get to experience a day when you’re overwhelmed by the love of your favorite humans, know that even if that day never comes, God has abundantly poured out His lavish love upon you, seen so clearly in His mercy, His Spirit, and His work of renewing you into the likeness of Jesus!