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1 John 3:16

‘The love of God’

Read Hosea 3:1-3 ; Hosea 14:1-9

Children of God, rejoice in and give thanks for the love of God in Christ. None of us deserves to be loved by God. There is nothing in us by nature, either actually or potentially, that could have caused God to love us. He is holy; we are evil. He is pure; we are defiled. He is righteous; we are sinful. He is the glorious God of heaven; we are the filthy worms of the earth. Yet the infinite, eternal God loved us! He loved us freely! There is no cause to be found for the love of God for us except in himself’. He says, ‘I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.’

The love of God for our souls is sovereign. I cannot explain the sovereignty of God’s love for his own elect, but I can rejoice in his love. He did not love Esau or Judas, but he did love, Jacob and John, He did not choose to love many of my friends and companions or many of my own kinsmen, but blessed be his name, he did choose to love me! I was more undeserving of his love than all the others combined; nevertheless he loved me. Shall I not rejoice in his love?

The love of God for his own elect is eternal. His love for us, like himself, is without beginning. The Lord God loves us with an everlasting love. Before angel loved angel, before man loved man, before either angels or men were created, Jehovah loved us, and said, ‘I will be their God, and they shall be my people.’

The proof of God’s love for us is in the sacrifice of his own Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to save us. ‘God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us' (Romans 5:8). God so greatly loved us that, though the price of our redemption must be the blood of his own Son, he willingly made the sacrifice!

And God’s love for his own is an immutable love. It changes not. The Lord God will never cease to cherish his own. His love will never come to an end. It can never be exhausted. It never even diminishes or becomes cold. God loves us perfectly and without end. No, not even our many sins affect his love. ‘Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us!’

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