God loves everyone. He even loves the enemies marked by politicians as the people we should be hating vigorously. God’s love is for everyone, not just a few. What God does not love, is sin. God loves the sinner but hates sin regardless of where you live on this earth or who you are. Rom. 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
How can a love that seems too good to be true be understood with a few platitudes delivered through a few homilies once a week? Saints, it takes personal a relationship with our Lord to begin to understand His love for us. No matter what book of the bible we read we can find Jesus through the pages declaring His love toward us. Each book prophetically points to Jesus and his desire for a relationship with each member of his created beings.
The types and symbols that speak of lordship, authority and the divinity of Jesus Christ permeate the pages of the Bible while pronouncing the blessing of God’s love for each and every person on earth. Wow! What a love so hard to describe that lives within us who have accepted God’s gift of love through our Lord Jesus. Rom. 8:38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In this one encounter with Jesus, this man who had been a plague in society was healed, restored, and provided for with one kind loving act from the Lord Jesus. From that point on there was no doubt in this man’s heart of the love of God. The law had shunned and alienated this man from family and society because of a disease the law could not heal. However, the grace of Jesus’ love provided all the man needed to live an abundant life. John 10:10b I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Jesus knew his reason for coming and loving us in the flesh per se. Isa. 61:1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, 2 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, 3a and provide for those who grieve in Zion– to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.
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