Romans 5:8 - But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (NIV)

God does not just talk love, God demonstrates it; God shows it. It is so easy to talk about love when it is a noun, the subject of a sentence, but God shows love as a verb. He acts upon what He says. It is so strange to accept the fact that God could love us. We are so prone to mistakes.

We are so given to mischievous behavior. Pied Pipers of this world often lead us off into sin. Yet in spite of all of that, God loves us and loves us with an everlasting love. He has declared that nothing can or will separate us from the love He has for us. I must admit I shutter every time I think about so great a love.

He demonstrates that love for us in and through His son, Jesus Christ. Christ so loved us that he came to give us eternal life.  He did not come in riches. He did not come to a palace. He did not come to the acceptable of society.

On the contrary, he associated with sinners, divested himself of his eternal glory, and came to outcast and rejects. He demonstrated that the Omnipotent God loves the lost, the lonely, and the left out. He loves us so much as to come to where ever we can be found. He will stop by a pool and teach us to walk. He will step into our place of employment and tell us that we are unfulfilled. He will walk across waves to help us handle those same waves.

The miracle of God's love is that Christ did not stop with identifying with us. He died for us. He took love to another level. He did more than show us the way. He died to fully open the way and to guarantee that it stayed open. Paul cannot fathom the fact that someone would love us so much that he would endure so heinous a death; yet; he knows that Christ did it because he loves us.

He wants us to enjoy the fruits of the kingdom and to know God for ourselves. We do not see this kind of love anywhere but in Christ Jesus. We would never know the real meaning of love, the selfless giving, that is love, if God had not revealed it to us in his son Jesus Christ. "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this:

Bishop Walter S. Thomas