How do we know that God loves us?
Because He demonstrated that love for us by dying in our place.
And we didn’t even deserve it!
We were sinners!
We had turned our backs on Him.
We had disobeyed Him.
We had messed up His beautiful creation—the world—with our transgressions, making it a pretty messy place.
We were certainly no friend to God!
And yet He died for us anyway. Our sins put Him on that cross.
Jesus tells His disciples in John 15:13-15 NIV, “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.”
If you are His disciple, you are also His friend!
The Creator of all the universe, who went to the cross to pay the debt that 𝘺𝘰𝘶 owed to Him for messing up His creation with 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 sin so that 𝘺𝘰𝘶 wouldn’t have to, now calls you His friend!
Now 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 is love!
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Reflection:
Have you ever thought of yourself as Christ’s friend?
How does it make you feel to realize that the Creator of all the universe feels that way about you?