This is the epitome of divine love: Jesus loved the world that hated God and killed Jesus as well as His friends.
"No one has greater love than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends," declared Jesus in John 15:13. To give your life in order to save your friends and loved ones is the height of human love. I'd die for my wife and kids, but it would take heavenly love for me to be willing to let my son die so that my worst enemy could live.
The Bible says, "Christ died for us while we were still sinners, demonstrating God's own love towards us."
And more than that, because we are now justified by His blood, we will be delivered from God's wrath via Him. Because if the death of God's Son made us right with Him even when we were enemies, then much more will His life save us now that we are at peace (Rom. 5:8–10).
Oh, what marvels! While we were His enemies and thirsting for the blood of His spotless Son, God loved us so much that He sent His Son, whom He loved above all else, to die on the cross that we could be rescued. Thank God, we can trust it even though we cannot comprehend it. And when we do, we discover a peace that cannot be found elsewhere.
God's love cannot be measured in this life or the next. O the love that drew the design of salvation!
Oh, the elegance that made it human!
O the vast chasm that God crossed at Calvary!
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