OH, HOW
HE
LOVES ME!
“Thou… hast
loved them, as thou hast loved me” (John 17:23)
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I can rejoice that God
loves me; but Oh! To know that He
loves me as He loves His Son is beyond
my comprehension. Yet that He
does so I cannot deny it; for the Lord
But what makes this
glorious truth so amazingly wonderful is
to consider who we are and what we are! Honestly, none of us can claim
that we
deserve to be loved by God! Just simply being sinners, all of us
deserve to be
hated by God as He so justly declares in His Word: “Thou
hatest all workers of iniquity” (Psalm 5:5). Yet in Romans
5:8 we read: “But God commendeth his love
toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for
us”.
Oh, beloved, words fail
me to express what this means to me;
for its “breadth, and length, and depth,
and height” is a love “which passeth
knowledge” (Ephesians 3:18), yet to know it experientially
because of my
faith in Christ is to be assured that God loves me as He loves His only
begotten Son. Although I might not be able to “describe”
this love in words;
nevertheless, I can believe it!
Therefore, although I
might not be able to “explain” this
love because of its greatness, yet as I
look by faith at the beloved Son of God, in Whom I have been made
accepted
(Ephesians 1:6), I may rest assured that God loves me in the same
manner that
He loves