The Love of God

Taken from the book Knowing God, chapter 12.

The Love of God

When we say God is love, the statement means that His love finds expression in everything that He says and Does.

I think to us personally is the supreme comfort for Christians, as believers, in the cross of Christ assurance that we, as individuals, are beloved of God. Whereby the Son of man loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)

God so love us that he gave his only son Jesus Christ to be our Savior, and bring us to know and to enjoy Him in a covenant relation.

Knowing this, we are able to apply the promise that all things work together for good to us who love God and are called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28)

Note, not just some thing, but all things!
Every single thing that happens to us expressed God’s love to us, at every moment and in every events of every day’s life.

Even thou we cannot see why and how of God’s dealings, one thing we know for sure that there is love in and behind it.

God’s love towards sinners

We are undeserved, but God still show grace and mercy towards us sinners where by we sin and corrupt in God’s sight.

God loves people because He has chosen to love them.
Duet 7:8- But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

No reason for His love to be given to save his own sovereign good pleasure.

Even when a sinners repents, there will be exceeding joy
- Luke 15:10 In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.

There is no doubt according to the scripture that such is the love of God.

God’s love formed before creation, in
Eph1:4 - For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love…

God choice and selection to those whom He would bless and, appointed the benefits to be obtain and enjoyed.

So we ought to give thanks to God
2 Thessalonians 2:13- But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
God’s love to sinners was expressed by the gift of His one and only son Jesus Christ to be our saviour.

1 John 4:9- This is how God show his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

The love measure love of God is the gift of His only son Jesus Christ, to become human, to die for our sins, and so to become the one mediator who can reconcile to bring us to God.

God, who did not spare his own Son, but gave His son for us all.

Most Popular verse John 3:16-
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

This is love: not that we loved God, but he loved us and sent His only son as an atoning sacrifice once and for all for our sins.

Romans 5:8- God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

So lets give thanks to God for what He has done for us. Through the love and grace of Jesus Christ by dying on the cross and His precious blood, we are redeemed and saved.

Questions to ask you and me included…
Do I ever allow myself to grow cold and half-hearted in the service of the Lord who loves me so?

-Last verse from 1 john 4:11-
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Meditate upon these things and to examine us.