Love: Part 1

God's love.

How can one describe it? It's so deep and so perfect. When I try to describe it, I am at a loss for words, so I will try to approach this subject in the best way that I can. I often find myself asking "Why?" a lot. Specifically, "Why does God love me?"

God is love, and he shows the extent of His great love by extending that love to those who don't deserve it: Mankind.

You see, we people are deplorable. God is many things. He is holy, He is mercy, He is love, and He is grace. Humans are none of these things. Holy comes from a Greek word that means "separated" or "set apart." That being said, God is completely separated from sin. He can't have anything to do with it, which means that when the first human sinned, God could no longer be in communication with us because we were no longer holy and blameless before a righteous God.

God has existed for eternity past. He's even existed longer than that because eternity is an amount of time. God CREATED time and exists outside of it. He knew before He created mankind that sin would happen and that he would be separated from us.

Thank goodness that God has many aspects to Him, because if he were only holy, we would all have a horrifying fate. God's holiness says that we have to be separated from Him if we sin. Romans 3:23 says, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans 6:23 starts with, "For the wages of sin is death..." If the road ended here, then we would all be on our way to hell.

Sin is what separates us from a holy God, and sin has an ending: death. This isn't just dying, but it's eternal separation from our Creator. It is an eternal seclusion, and the Bible calls it a fiery lake of burning sulfur - the second death.

Thank goodness for grace and mercy, because that verse ends with, "...But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

Jesus was truly a gift to mankind. We were all doomed once sin entered the world. John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him will have eternal life.

Romans 5:8 says, "God demonstrates His own love for us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us!"

We were dirty, and God sent his perfect, spotless Son to earth. His son came from heaven into our domain to be killed by us. That is love.

Why does God love us? Because He chooses to. He doesn't have to love us by any means, and we are definitely not entitled, as some think.

How deep is the Father's love for us? Oh, my friend, you couldn't measure it even if you tried.