SCRIPTURE: The Lord God has chosen to fully reveal Himself through His Son, Jesus Christ. He has done it in such a way that a finite mind might grasp the essential truth of God’s infinite being. (Romans 1:19-20 NLT).
QUOTE: “God’s greatest attribute is not his power, though it is omniscience; not his glory, though it is burning majesty: it is his love.” -Al Bryant
NOTE:
When we say God’s love is infinite, we mean that God’s love for us is unending, inexhaustible, boundary less, it is not affected by time or Human evolution. God declared His love on the Cross of Jesus Christ, and we need never question it ever again. Jesus Christ “loved me and gave Himself for me.” We perceive and understand the love of God because Jesus laid down His life for us. In eternity we will have “a ceaseless unfolding of that fathomless expression of boundless love of God.
The ultimate picture of the love of God is the cross of Jesus. Why such a demonstration of love? “God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself” (2 Cor. 5:19). Every righteous judgment of God against sin was removed by Christ.
ILLUSTRATION:
God alone accomplished the reconciliation of sinful, rebellious man to Himself. He accomplished it by the death of Jesus on the cross. “Whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed” (Rom. 3:25). Infinite love was unveiled at the cross in the saving act of God in the death of Christ. “God was in Christ.” In that death, “God has set forth Christ to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins. . . that He might be just and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus” (Rom. 3:25-26).
REFLECTION:
- How deep do you think you were in sin and trespasses before Christ pulled you up and out?
TWO YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: 1 Kings 20 – 21, Psalm 15