Did you ever wonder why God loves you so much that He let His Son die on the cross for your sins?
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Apostle Paul calls this ‘the love that surpasses
all understanding’ (Eph 3:19). Why such a crazy love that offers the best for
the worst?
1. God is love (1
John 4:16)
God loves us because He is love. He lives
in the community of love: Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. He overflows with
love. It is His essential nature and His very substance. What else can God do
but love when all of Himself is love and love alone.
God made us and called us His children.
Even though we sinned against Him, He prepared the way for His children to
return to Him. He lavished His love up on us by calling us His children.
He called us children because He loved us
(1 John 3:1).
He is like a mother who loves her child
even before the child was born. The mother is full of love for her off spring-
not because they did something to win her love but because she over flows with
love for her own.
Since God is beyond measure in His essence,
His love is beyond measure. His love is the mightiest bond of all. Nothing can
separate us from the love of God in Jesus Christ.
He loves us with an inseparable love
(Romans 8:38-39).
2. He made us in
His image (resemblance) (Gen 1:26-27)
God loves us because He made us in His
image.
“So God created man in His own image. In
the image of God He created him. Male and female He created them.” (Gen 1:27).
We are His resemblance. We are made to look
like Him. The Father finds pleasure in the fact that we are in His image and
likeness. We may not remember this at times. We tend to think that we are an
accident, we are of no value and insignificant.
The fact is that He loves us more than anything
else in His creation because He made us in His own image. He made the whole
creation and at the end He made the master-piece with His own hands and in His
own image.
He loved us so much that he crowned us with
glory, majesty and authority (Ps 8:4-8). We are meant to resemble Him.
He gave us his life, wisdom, emotion and
lot more to see Himself in us.
Even though the image of God in us is distorted
with sin, He sent His Son to show the Father and remind us of His love and who
He really is.
Jesus is the image of God (Col 1:15; Heb
1:3). He gave us every provision needed in order to bring back the perfection
of His image in us.
3. He made us so He
can love us
He made us for the very purpose of loving
us. Yes, it is true that we are made to worship Him and we are asked to obey
Him, but the primary purpose of creating us is so He can lavish His love on us.
He fist (before, beginning) loved us (1
John 4:19). Our love for God is only a response
to His initiating love. He longed for a loving relationship with us even before
we were made. And when God made Adam and Eve, He walked with them in the Garden
of Eden (Gen 3:8).
The Bible never talks about God making the
Ten Commandments before the creation of the world. It says that God made the
lamb of atonement before the foundations of the world. (Rev 13:8). Out of His
abundance of His love, He prepared the way for us to be restored to Him. That
is how much He loves us.
When we sinned, God still loved us that he
did not want us to come under His Holy wrath. Therefore, He took the action for
us to regain His favor.
He sent His Son for the propitiation
(action to regain favor) of our sins (1 John 4:10).
He did not make us for punishment but for a
great out pouring of His abundant love. The very purpose of creating us is to
love us.
So what?
Do you understand your worth in God? You are Hand-picked by the
Creator. You are chosen and the master-piece of His creation (Ps 139:13-17).
Thank God for the way He made you. Thank Him for the way He loves you
