DAD'S RAMBLINGS -- THE LOVE OF GOD

DAD'S RAMBLINGS – THE LOVE OF GOD

"For when we were without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:6-8)

My heart is arrested again when I read these words of the Holy Scriptures. We quote so easily John 3:16 – "For God so loved the world that He gave His only son..." But when I stop and really think about the meaning of these words, it causes me to fall in worship before the Savior. To think that the God of the universe would love His creation – us sinful, unholy human beings – so much that He would come to die for us is truly a soul-shaking thought. The part of His creation that He put so much of Himself into – that were even created in His image – but who have turned their back on Him, even blasphemed Him – that He would still love us so much that He would leave heaven to die for us is too much for my mind to grasp.

It would be one thing if I was good and righteous that He would love me so much. But to think that He would love the ungodly that He would lay down His life for us. Amazing love, how can it be, that Thou my God would die for me.

I don't think that I will ever understand the magnitude of the love of God for me. It is too far beyond my ability to imagine. But, as the Apostle John wrote in the other 3:16 verse, "By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us" (I John 3:16). As our focus verse says, "When we were without strength, Christ died for the ungodly." We had no strength or ability to save ourselves. He had to do it if there was any hope of salvation. It's like a drowning person who has no strength or ability to save himself. He must depend totally on someone else to carry him to safety. But just imagine the drowning man struggling against the one who is rescuing him. That life-guard is laying down his own safety to save the one who fights him. That would take a lot of dedication.

I was that one who was drowning in my sin, but God so loved me that He came to rescue me from it. Oh, what love.

Love, Dad