God loves you despite yourself. (Ephesians 2:4) For God loves all of humanity without distinction. (John 3:16) How do we know? If I asked you to sacrifice your child for a stranger, would you be able to do it? Yet, God willingly gave up His precious and beloved Son, demonstrating His infinitely more costly love…by not withholding His only Son to die in our place. (Romans 8:32) Why did He do it? So that God could show us His everlasting love… in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us so we might be reconciled to God the Father. (Romans 5:8) More than 700 years prior, Isaiah heralded this great love to us, the unworthy, when he wrote, “For to us a child is born, to us a Son is given….”
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