In this is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:10-11
People spend a lot of time talking about love. Parents love their children. Husbands and wives love one another. Friends love one another in special ways. Siblings love each other. People love their pets, their sports teams and their favorite foods. Love, though, is more than just something we think or feel.
God is love – true love. 1 John 4 tells us about this love. 1 John says: “In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10). God is love. Though we so often have failed to love each other, God never fails to love. God’s greatest act of love is His Son Jesus Christ. God so loved the world that He gave His only Son. God so loved you that He sent Jesus to die for you and me. And Jesus died because of our lack of love. Jesus willingly died in the place of sinners, sinners like me and you. And Jesus rose from the dead on the third day to win the victory over sin, death, and the devil.
God is love. That love is shown to us and given to us in the person and work of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. This Holy Week we focus on the last days of our Lord’s life and the great lengths He went to make us His – now and for all eternity. Jesus suffered, died, and rose again – all out of His great love for us! Now that’s true love!
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