For those who are in Christ Jesus I believe God's love is the most important issue to meditate on and to fix firmly in our minds. Well, only after we settle the fact that Jesus took away all our sins and will never count them against us. However, this blessed state flows out of His great love he has for us who are in Jesus. In this article I will try to delve deeply into the riches of his glorious love grace. However, this article can never do it justice. It truly is indescribable!
One important point to note is that God's love that I am going to attempt to describe is for His children only. Oh sure God has a certain love for all people. He sustains all people, he protects them and feeds them. Most importantly His love is shown in the fact he sent his Son to die for the sins of the whole world (Jn. 3:16, Jn. 1 and 1 Jn. 2:2).
The amazing thing about God's love is that He loves us with the same love that He has for His Son Jesus. Think on that for a minute. God loves and accepts us in the same way he loves and accepts Jesus!
That is He loves those who are in Christ the same. Why? Because we are Christ's body. The church is the body of Christ. Not only that but he has given us the same righteousness that Christ had. See 2 Cor. 5:21.
"He made him who knew no sin (Christ) to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." God sees us as if we are as righteous as Jesus. Amazing grace!
Look at Hebrews 10: 14 "because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy." Heb. 10:17 says "Their sins and lawless acts I remember no more." Notice that by Christ' death on the cross we have been made perfect forever and our sins are completely forgotten by God. Forever! We are perfect forever! God will never judge us according to our sins. In God's eyes it is as if we have never sinned. We are perfect in God's sight. That is why we can have complete confidence that God accepts us always and always hears our prayers. By Christ death we are forgiven and by His resurrection we are saved. Rom. 5:10 says we are saved His Life. Forgiven by His death but saved by His life. Christ gives us his life when we believe in Him. We were dead to God but then we are given life when we are born again by faith in Jesus, Eph 2:1.
That is the backstory that brings God's eternal love into the life of sinful people like you and me. If we are in Christ then we are loved and accepted as if we are Christ. Oh the depth of God's amazing love. It is worth thinking deeply about and speaking and even singing about forever. Praise God.
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