“Herein
is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us”
SIH’s Think On
These Things: 1 John 4:9-10”
1John
4:9-10 (KJV)
9) In this was
manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten
Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10)
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
In this morning’s text,
we find that God’s love for His people portrayed in great detail…
“In
this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only
begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him”
Jehovah, the Only True
God, our Creator and Lord, loved us with a perfect, unconditional, and absolute
love for His people. He clearly demonstrated
His self-sacrificial love by sending His Son to the earth. It is through Christ’s coming that He brings spiritual
life to those who are fallen, sinful creatures who are spiritually dead in
their trespasses and sins.
Christ, in turn, exhibited
this same type of love for us by giving his life on the cross. In His death, we have the just One dying for
the unjust; paying in full the debt of our sins and securing forgiveness from our God (1 Pet 3:18).
What great sacrifice to
bring salvation to His people! This is THE
message of the Bible.
“Herein
is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins”
To further display His
great love, God’s Word reminds us that God’s love was placed upon us long
before we loved Him. He chose to love us
before we loved Him, before we saw our need before Him, and before we were
brought into this world. Amazingly, His loved was placed upon us before the
world began (Eph 1:4).
We are clearly told that
we can never be separated from this same great love. We can know with assurance that we are kept
safe in the hands of God, because His people can NEVER be separated from His
gracious redeeming love… Rom
8:38-39 (KJV) For
I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from
the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Folks, just as Jonah
experienced a divine miracle of salvation from the fish’s belly, let us share
in thanking Him for His unconditional love.
It is this love that has given to us the eternal deliverance from the punishment
of our sin and the promise of a blessed eternity with Him. Jonah 2:9 (KJV) But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will
pay [that] that I have vowed. Salvation [is] of the LORD.
May the
Lord bless us as we “Think On These Things”.
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