God’s
Love For Us!
Christ’s love transcends all
our human understanding and shows us how much the Son loves the Father and how much God
the Father, Son and Holy Spirit loves us, the human race. Jesus constantly expressed His
heart felt love for the Father. In John 14:31 he says, "But that the world may know
that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do…"
Paul the great Apostle, tells all
who will listen the depths of Christ’s love for us. Galatians 2:20 says, "I have
been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life
which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave
Himself for me." Then he goes on to say, "Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword? … Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him
who loved us." (Rom 8:35-37)
Christ died so that we could have a
totally transformed life through his living his life through us. Ephesians 3:19 says,
"to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all
the fullness of God."
How are we filled with God? We are
filled by walking in the love that only God could give to us. Ephesians 5:2 says,
"And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering
and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma."
Our love for God expresses itself
through our obedience. Obedience is not the cause of salvation but it is a fruit of
salvation. The Gospel of John, Chapter 14, verse 21 says, "He who has My commandments
and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and
I will love him and manifest Myself to him." Later, John tells us the depths of
Jesus’ love for us and the basis of our obedience is found in what he did for us.
"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his
friends." (John 15:13)
We who call ourselves disciples and
follow Christ Jesus must offer our lives up to God as a sacrificial offering just as Chris
was willing to die sacrificially for us. First John 3:16 says, "By this we know love,
because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for
the brethren."
God the Father loves us so much so
that He paid the bloody price for our redemption, the life of his one and only Son
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes
in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
God deserves our love!
