Have you ever wondered what Jesus meant by “even as you have loved me”? We know God loved His only begotten Son. Have you ever thought about exactly what His love towards us looks like or tried to put it into words?

Though no human words can ever express God’s love towards us with any accuracy that does it justice, here is something to think about when trials come as they most definitely will:

God loved His children before the foundation of the earth. He chose us to be adopted as His precious sons in Christ Jesus. While we were in our mother’s wombs, He was there forming our inward parts. Even though we were born in iniquity, He loved us before we knew that we needed Him. He made us in His image so we could reflect His glory and love, which He has for us, onto others. He has numbered every hair on our heads and all the number of our days from the beginning. His thoughts for us are good and not evil. He loved us and gave Himself for us when even we hated Him and did not know Him. He made us alive together with Christ even when we were dead in trespasses and sins.  He sought us when we were wandering from the fold. He saw us afar off and ran towards us and embraced us as sons. He has hid our lives together with Christ in Himself. He poured His love out into our hearts and loves us with an everlasting and unfailing love. He blessed us and raised us together with Christ in the heavenly places and gave us an inheritance with Christ. We are Christ’s inheritance. From His amazing grace He drew us to Himself out of His everlasting and unfailing love for us. He had mercy on us and found us when we were alone and without God in the world. According to the riches of His grace, He redeemed us and forgave us our trespasses. He chose us to be conformed into the image of His son and to be Holy and blameless before Him.

He demonstrated His great love with which He loved us by, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. He saved us from the wrath to come by His shed blood on the cross.

And what does He ask in return? Only that we walk humbly before Him and keep His commandments. Given everything He has done for us, this is our reasonable service.

So remember

Our purpose is to glorify Him,

Our duty is to serve Him,

Our strength is through Him,

Our hope is in Him.

All praise and glory and honor to the only one who is worthy, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen!

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