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| 2 Corinthians 4:18 |
If I were to measure God's love for me on a scale, my life circumstances would never be able to balance it out. No matter how good or bad my circumstances treat me, the love of God for me is always far greater. There is no greater love than what He has already shown on the cross.
The cross is telling me the perfect truth. My life is not.
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
This is how God has chosen to demonstrate His love. Christ dying for me IS the demonstration. It IS the proof that He loves me. All other proof is secondary, lesser, and often unreliable.
The cross is telling me the perfect truth. My life is not.
Romans 8:32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?
We can believe God will freely give us all things because He's already given His son. What more is there to give? What love has He held back? The cross proves that He's held nothing back from us and that He's perfectly willing- today- to give all good things to us.
The cross is the proof. My life is not.
See, we have to come to this conclusion in our own mind: to value the cross above what we can see in our visible world in the here and now. The visible world does not communicate perfectly the love of God for us because it can't. Sin and death still operate in it.
But We believe in a God we can't see. We believe that God has sent His Holy Spirit, a spirit we can't see, to comfort us. We believe in a heaven that we haven't seen, a resurrection from the dead that we haven't seen, and countless promises from God to us that we haven't fully seen.
We can believe God will freely give us all things because He's already given His son. What more is there to give? What love has He held back? The cross proves that He's held nothing back from us and that He's perfectly willing- today- to give all good things to us.
The cross is the proof. My life is not.
See, we have to come to this conclusion in our own mind: to value the cross above what we can see in our visible world in the here and now. The visible world does not communicate perfectly the love of God for us because it can't. Sin and death still operate in it.
But We believe in a God we can't see. We believe that God has sent His Holy Spirit, a spirit we can't see, to comfort us. We believe in a heaven that we haven't seen, a resurrection from the dead that we haven't seen, and countless promises from God to us that we haven't fully seen.
Our faith is based in realities that are outside of our vision. And if we are to live by faith, then we must live our lives in the invisible realities, not the visible ones. If we are to experience the unfiltered love of God, it must come by faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus. It must come in the ways I can't see visibly... because that's where perfect love resides.
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