How does God show His love for us?  Paul states the answer very clearly in his letter to the Romans, “God showed His love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.”  Jesus is the revelation of God’s love!  Again we read, “for God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, and whoever believes in Jesus has eternal life.”  While sin has separated us from God, Jesus Christ has brought us back to God through His death and resurrection.  Even Jesus said that no greater love does one show than to lay down his life for his friend.  That is exactly what Jesus did.  He laid down His life for you and me!  Has anyone shown you more love than this?  Jesus gave His life that we may live now and forever. 

We can draw some more insight into God’s nature of love, by looking at the great love chapter in the Bible-I Corinthians 13.  In this chapter Paul describes some characteristics of love, which I believe we can use to understand God better.  Paul says that love is patient.  We read many times in the Bible that God is patient in dealing with His people when they are doing wrong.  God gently corrects and reproves His people back to obedience.  Love is kind.  We see God’s kindness in His daily provision of our needs.  The Bible says that every good thing comes from God above. We need to give thanks to God for all the blessings in our lives.

One last observation about God’s love is that He has given us freedom to choose.  God in His love did not create robots that would automatically obey Him.  He desires that we obey Him because we want to. What parent doesn’t swell up in pride when their child obeys on their own, not having to be told what to do?  I believe God is the same.  He delights in us when we obey Him on our own, but He has given us a choice, whether we will follow Him or forsake Him. That is God showing love toward us.  May we see the love of God more clearly in our lives.