When people are defending the deity of Christ, usually they will point to one of two things; either His miracles or His resurrection from the dead.  (usually the latter)  What has been pressing on me though lately, is how unbelievable the love of God is.  How about the love of Christ as evidence for His deity?  It’s easy for me to understand the wrath of God – I know my own wickedness, I see the wickedness of others, and God is holy.  How can God love like He does?  Have you ever stopped to think about what it meant for Christ to know all throughout His ministry that He would be betrayed by Judas, yet at no time did He strike out against him.  Every one of the other 11 disciples fled from Jesus when He was arrested, yet Jesus at every moment lovingly cared for them.  No fallen man could act this way.

Romans 5:6-8 – “For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

God didn’t die for a better version of you, Christ died for you, the sinner, the mocker in the crowd as they led Him to be crucified.  Do you realize how much you’ve sinned in the last 6 months, 1 month, 1 day, 5 minutes?  You are covered in Christ’s blood.  When Christ died for you, He took with Him your yesterday, today, and tomorrow sins, that you would be reconciled to God.  What depth of love is this?

If Christ is in you, as the Holy Spirit, His love will manifest through you.  This is why it can be said that the whole of the law is to love the Lord God with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul, and all your strength, and love your neighbor as yourself – and then turn around in 1 John 5 and say that the commandments of God are not burdensome.  The love of Christ is for you, with you, and in you.  No one could love like this Man.  This love is greater than we can know completely; but what we know in part now, we will know fully one day.

Romans 8:38-39 – “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Grace and Peace,
Adam