We continue our Agape series today talking about God’s amazing love as demonstrated by Jesus on the cross. True agape acts. By its very nature, it acts. It can’t help but act. Agape is all-giving. And God demonstrated this highest form of love by making the ultimate sacrifice: He sent His own Son to die for undeserving, unworthy, incapable, sinful humans.
One of the first steps in understanding the magnitude of God’s love is understanding the magnitude of our own depravity before God. The New Testament writer Paul uses some strong language to define us: sinners, enemies, unworthy, objects of God’s wrath. He uses this language to help us comprehend how reprehensible sin is before a completely pure and perfect God. And then he informs us that God loved us while we were still in this state!
I am glad that God’s love is not fickle. I am glad that God’s love does not hinge on my own ability to do right or clean up myself. I am glad that God loves me while I am still a sinner.
One of my favorite definitions of grace is: God can never love me any more or less than He does right now. That is love!