Making it personal
How does God show us true love? First, He paid for us. Once again, this is the base of true love. It is hard to die for someone, but it is even harder to live for them on a continual basis. Christ not only died for us, John 3:16 but he took the full wrath of the Father for us as we could not, John 3:36. On the cross, Christ said, “it is finished.” This was because the full price had been paid for our salvation. The wrath of a Holy Father was satisfied.
Secondly, Christ, God the Son, is our propitiation or offering, I John 4:9-10. We now are made pleasing to the Father. When God looks at us, he sees the blood of Christ. Without the blood of our blessed Savior, we would never be pleasing to God. We can now boldly enter into the presence of God through the blood.
God the Spirit also makes intercession for us, Rom. 8:26, 27. God loves us so much that the Spirit searches out our hearts and brings our petitions to God even when we cannot put it into words. I do not think it is a stretch to even say that He takes our requests to God even before we know we have the requests. Heb. 7:22-f.f. tells us that He is the perfect high priest making continual intercession for us with the Father.
Christ now lives Amen! Because He rose from the dead, we now have victory over death and the grave, I Cor. 15:54-57. We now do not have to be afraid of death for it has been defeated. We can now live our lives truly without fear for the One who so love us.
So, will we? Will we love God in return or will we love ourselves. I think many would die for Christ, but God wants us to live for Him. To live for Him, we must die to self, Luke 9:23, and take the cross of Christ. Let’s turn this world upside down with the Love of God.