Jesus' Love For Us

Jesus Love

There’s a Gaither song I particularly like –“There is a river, and it flows from deep within; There is a fountain, that frees the soul from sin; Come to this water; there is a vast supply; There is a river, that never shall run dry.” The song reminds me of Jesus love for me, for you, for all of us.

With all the sin, wickedness, and hatred that we see in the world, why on earth would we be so blessed to have a Creator God who still cares so very much for us? Why would He want anything more to do with us? Why would He not throw up His hands in anger and anguish and just leave us to our own destructive devices? Why does He not think that Jesus sacrifice at Calvary was a complete waste of time?

These things have never even crossed His mind because of His promise that came with Jesus that “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” John 3:16-19.

“Whoever believes.”  I’m a Whoever. You are another Whoever, We are ALL Whoever’s.

We do not have to plead with God as Lot did when he said of Sodom and Gomorrah – “Will you not spare the city if I can find just 5 just men?” In His infinite wisdom and mercy God made a way for us. We have to plead for nothing. All we have to do is accept Jesus as our Saviour ask Him to help us turn ourselves around by inviting Him into our hearts. It is so simple even a child can do it – and that is exactly the way God designed it to work.

Faith is actually so simple yet we have contrived to make it not just complex but difficult by wrapping faith up in religion. It’s the Pharisee in us still. We like to put everything in a box but to do that it has to conform to the size and shape of the box. Trouble is – you can’t put God in a box, which is why religion fails but child-like faith wins.

This is what Jesus’ love has done for us. This is the immeasurable extent of His love that we, whilst we were still sinners, we were chosen by Him. Despite all our wrongs and faults and foibles, Jesus loves us so much that when He died at Calvary – a sinless death for the sinful – He opened the doors of heaven wide open for every single one of us. All we have to do is say, “Yes Lord, I accept your offer.”

It’s so simple even a child can do it.