John the apostle has been sharing with us lately about how much God loves us and how we should love others. Today he shows us an even greater aspect to God's love toward us in First John chapter four and verse ten where he wrote:
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
So many people say, “I love God”, and that is a very nice thing to say, but why wouldn't they? God is so lovable. The amazing part to John's words here is that God loves us. In fact, God loves us so much that He sent His Son to bear the weight of the guilt of our sins. If we think about it, how many people do we know that will freely bear the weight of one sin of another much less the complete sinful lives they have?
God is so in love with us that when there was the barrier of sin in our lives He decided to do something to remove that barrier. We should have born the punishment of our sins, but God sent His Son to do it for us. We should have paid the price for our wrongs, but God sent His Son to be the propitiation or appeasement of the punishment we deserved.
God loves you and me, and many times when circumstances in our lives may cause us to doubt His love all we have to do is remember the price that He paid for us. This is what the “Lord's Supper, Communion, or the Eucharist” is all about – Remembering what Jesus did. The apostle Paul wrote about it in the first book of Corinthians in chapter eleven and verses twenty-three through twenty-six:
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also [he took] the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do, as oft as you drink [it], in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do shew the Lord's death till he come.
We all have challenges in life, and some of them may cause us to doubt God's love. Each time we consider the price that He paid for our sins so that we might have fellowship with Him, we should easily remember that He loves us with a love to which none can compare.
Next time we shall look at what our natural response to God loving us when it comes to others, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
Until tomorrow...there is more...
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