this is love

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

I truly only know love because God has loved me. And that love was shown by the Father sending His only Son to pay my sin debt. By the death and resurrection of Jesus love has been forever shown and can be personally known. And God did not wait for me to love Him first. That would have been impossible. Instead, the Father sent His Son even though I (yet to even be born) would enter the world a miserable, condemned sinner. This is love.

It’s one thing to love good people. That’s quite natural. But only supernatural love would die for those deserving death, and then raise His Son to life so that those caught in the curse of death would know eternal life. This is love.

Lord,

I thank You that I can and do know love in Christ Jesus. Thank You for being the perfect, satisfying sacrifice for our sins. You took the wrath of God for us! You give us eternal life and we now know the love of the Father Who sent You. God loved us first so that we might know You and return that love. This is love!

Amen