God manifested His love to us

 

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. - 1 John 4:7-11

 

We never have to doubt God's love. He proved it in the most dramatic way possible. God manifested His love to us, even while we were still sinners. He manifested His love and He gave His son. He gave His son to shed His blood and that He would satisfy our sin debt by going to the cross for us.

 

There is no great love than that a man lay down his life for His friends.

 

And that is just how God showed His love for us. That’s how He manifested His love toward us.

 

Romans 5.8 puts it this way – ‘But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.’

 

While we were still in our sin. Even while our love for the world proved we were enemies of God he showed His love through the death of His Son.

 

Mind boggling – who dies for the enemy? Jesus did. How can we miss that? How can we neglect that? How can we not share that with the world?