Prehistoric love

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, - Ephesians 1.4-5

I realise this is the same passage as yesterday, but it has something I don’t want to skip over. That is His motivation – God did all this in love. 

I mentioned the word prehistoric yesterday. We read about how God had plans before the beginning for us to be holy and blameless. We also looked at another plan – that we be adopted as sons into His family.

But there is something else we might miss if we are not careful. We know the basis and the motivation for God’s prehistoric plans for us. Before the beginning, prehistorically if you will, God’s love was already active. 

Get that? Before the foundation of the world God’s love was already in motion. Before ‘in the beginning’ anf before ‘let there be light’ there was already love. 

It was the love that prompted God to adopt  his enemies as His children. It was. His love that would one day send Jesus to the cross to pay the penalty for our sin. 

Isn't it a blessing and a comfort to know that before there was anything, there was love. And after it is all said and done there will still be love. 

What wondrous love is this?