Love So Amazing!

[Thompson, Darryl]

Love So Amazing! 

     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. John 3:16. 

     Having undertaken the work of man's redemption, the Father would
spare nothing, however dear, which was essential for the completion of
His work. He would make opportunities for men; He would pour upon them
His blessings; He would heap favor upon favor, gift upon gift, until the
whole treasury of heaven was open to those whom He came to save. Having
collected all the riches of the universe, and laid open all the
resources of His divine nature, God gave them all for the use of man.
They were His free gift. What an ocean of love is circulating, like a
divine atmosphere, around the world! What manner of love is this, that
the eternal God should adopt human nature in the person of His Son, and
carry the same into the highest heaven! 

     All the heavenly intelligences were watching with intense interest
the warfare that was going on upon the earth--the earth that Satan
claimed as his dominion. Every moment was big with eternal realities.
How would the conflict end? The angels looked for the justice of God to
be revealed, His anger to be aroused against the prince of darkness and
his sympathizers. But lo, mercy prevailed. When the Son of God might
have come to the world to condemn, He came as righteousness and peace,
to save not merely the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but all
the world--every son and daughter of Adam who would believe on Him, the
Way, the Truth, and the Life. What an exhibition of the love of Jehovah!
This is love without a parallel.  

     Our Redeemer determined on nothing less than that through His
merits the love of God should be transfused through the soul that
believes in Him. As our life, the vitality of God's love is to circulate
through every part of our nature, that it may abide in us as it dwells
in Christ Jesus. United with Christ by living faith, the Father loves us
as the members of Christ's mystical body, of which Christ is the
glorified head.  

>From That I May Know Him - Page 19