Aug 28 Devotion: The Amazing Love of God

John 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

         Let us stop long enough today to realize the amazing truth that the Father loves us with the same love that he loves his Son. John 17:23 says so. It is love that cannot reach any loftier height. It is love that the Son deserves but we do not. To love us the same way must mean that his love for us is unconditional. It must be that kind of love, for we are unlovable as rebellious sinners. To love us like he loves the Son shows the holiness and perfection of his character. He is love and because of this his love must be pure love. The love of God is amazing. Ponder this thought today and rejoice.

Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 8:38-39

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

1 John 4:9-10, 16

9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

In Christ’s Service,

Bro. Adrian Moore

2 Cor. 4:5