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God’s Love for Man
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should help us understand what God hopes we may become through
Christ.
The apostle John saw how high, deep, and broad is God’s love.
John wanted to tell about it, but he could not find the right words to
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describe it, so he said, “See how much the Father has loved us! His
love is so great that we are called God’s children.”
1 John 3:1
. What
a high value this places upon us!
By sinning, human beings became subjects of Satan. But through
faith in Christ and His death, they may become God’s children. By
taking human nature, Christ places sinners where, through connec-
tion with Him, they may become worthy of the name “children of
God.”
There is no other love like His. Children of the heavenly King!
Precious promise! How wonderful to think about the great love of
God for a world that did not love Him!
Thinking of God’s love makes us feel very humble. This thought,
as shown by Jesus’ death, should bring our minds close to God. The
more we study the character of God and keep looking at the cross,
the more we see God’s mercy, tenderness, and forgiveness. We also
see how fair He is and how just. We see His infinite love and a
tender pity that is far greater than the sympathy of a mother for her
disobedient child.
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