God's Love

Why is God interested in man? It is God who wants to save us; man has never wanted to save himself. Man’s nature is to do what he wants; man is content living for the moment not being bothered with living a life surrendered to what God wants. And as far as I can see, this is the interpretation of sin – living a life separate from God, a self-centered life. This is why the bible says that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, because all of us were born thinking only of ourselves.

But the fact still remains that God loves us.

Man’s sins show man’s need. God’s love shows God’s provision. If there is provision without need, the provision will be wasted.

There are three aspects of the love of God to consider.

1st God is love.
2nd God loves man.
3rd The expression of God’s love is in the death and resurrection of Jesus the Christ.

If God is love, no matter how you “hit” Him—if you reject Him, deny Him, or cast Him aside—He is still love.

Because God is love, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). Unless love is expressed, it is not made complete. Since God loves the world, He must be concerned about man’s need. When God says, “I love you,” His love will step up to bear all our burdens. The situation is this… man has sinned and God has loved. When you put the two things together, the gospel comes into being.

The emphasis of the Bible is on the love of God and the grace of the Lord Jesus. Christ is from the Father (1 Timothy 6:16), and all the fullness of the Father dwells in the Son (Colossians 1:19; 2:9), and is expressed through the Son. Jesus was fully God and fully human. In Him, the human nature was added to the divine nature. These two natures were once separated from each other but now through Christ Jesus they have become one. Because of this, we have been provided the gift of God – the Holy Spirit – actually living in us and through us. The exciting thing is that Jesus was the firstborn in a new generation of God’s children (Colossians 1:15). That’s us!

In the Son we see seven important things.

1) He had God’s divine essence and nature.
2) The divine nature and the human nature were combined.
3) He lived as a human being.
4) He experienced death and passed through death.
5) His resurrection.
6) His ascension.
7) His enthronement

Jesus is our access to God and His life exemplifies the love of God. Through Jesus, the Holy Spirit can guide and direct our lives and give us the peace and correct attitude for every situation. He can give us wisdom in our daily conversation, which brings Jesus glory and honor. He will inspire us to fulfill a higher purpose and He will give us favor at the appropriate time. He will comfort us when we have been broken down, and He can bring healing to our every need.

Let’s look at God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit through an allegory

Electricity: There is the main source at the power plant; in this example this represents the Father. Then the current travels through the wire; this represents Jesus, and finally the electricity reaches its destination to provide the power necessary to, say, illuminate a light; this represents the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit releases the appropriate amount of power as needed when we are open to Him and allow Him to work through us. If I walked up and tried to plug in a lamp at the main source of electricity, both the lamp and I would be fried; I couldn’t handle that much power. We can only handle electricity as it is regulated and released according to what is needed for practical use in our daily living. We can experience God (the main source) through the glorious life that Jesus lived here on earth. He made it possible for us to understand and know God. The Spirit of God that was with Jesus now comes to us through Jesus, and this is how we can have a personal relationship with God today. As Jesus, He was human and we are human, His experience can become our experience and our fellowship with God can be perfect and complete, through Him (2 Timothy 3:17).

Today we can be born again by accepting Jesus into our heart. We can live here on earth as Jesus lived here on earth. Jesus surrendered His life to the Father, and the bible says that He was totally dependent on the Father for everything. Jesus only did what the Father directed Him to do (John 14:10-11). In the same way we must completely surrender our lives to Jesus. We must totally be dependent on Him as our supply, and in so doing we will live a life full of God’s love, favor, and joy. John 15:7 “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”