Because He first loved us

We love Him because He first loved us. 1 John 4.19

 

We can only love God because He first loved us. That only makes sense how can we possibly love God without Him loving us.

 

He loved us first and He loved us enough to send Jesus to die on the cross for us. He loved us before the foundation of the world and He planned to save us because He loved us. He loved us so much that He gave His only begotten Son so that if we believe in Him we can have eternal life.

 

The phrase ‘He first loved us’ may be one of the greatest expressions in all of scripture.  Because of sin we were and enmity with God – we were His enemies. We were dead in our trespasses and our sin. We were in a well deserved helpless state that we could do nothing about. We could not muster up some kind of love for God. Our sin kept us blind to God. We were hopeless and helpless.

 

But God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that we, by believing we might have eternal life.

 

Now a relationship is restored. Now we can love the One who loved us. Now we can obey to love Him and love others.

 

Because He loved us we ought to love each other.