This is How

I John 4:9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 

Do you desire to know God’s love?  Look at how he showed it to us.  He sent his son (directing him in love) into the world (a place of hardships – where he had to persevere and endure) so that we might live through him (to bring about a miracle of grace and restoration and life).

Any time we don’t feel loved by God, or we think he’s failed us or disappointed us, we must be reminded of how God shows love.

He directs us into obedience to his word for our lives, out of his great love.

He enables us to endure, persevere, even unto death.

He brings about resurrection life in our own lives, and in the lives of others.

That’s God’s love.  And it’s the only love worth pursuing, the only love that is complete and pure, and the only love that endures eternally.

When we believe and receive, we are alive in Him and can experience this great love of God for us.