Diminishing the Prodigious Love of God

THE SON OF GOD LOVES US EVEN THOUGH WE TORTURED AND KILLED HIM. His love for us survived the evil that we did to him.

IT IS CORRECT BUT INADEQUATE TO SAY THAT GOD LOVE US. It is akin to saying that Albert Einstein was smart or that the Beatles were a good band or that Hitler was bad or that Mount Everest is tall. We do a disservice to God when we just say that 'God loves us'. In so doing, we underestimate, by many orders of magnitude, the size of God's love for us. GOD DOES NOT JUST LOVE US. GOD LOVES US EVEN THOUGH WE TORTURED AND KILLED HIM. Now, that is love! Wow! The brutality of the Crucifixion highlights and emphasizes and intensifies and magnifies and amplifies and accentuates and underlines the intransigence of his love for us. THE GREATER WAS OUR BRUTALITY TOWARDS HIM, THE GREATER IS OUR ASTONISHMENT AT THE INTRANSIGENCE OF HIS LOVE FOR US (Isaiah 55:8-9). Therefore, never forget to include the amplifier. Omitting the amplifier is the same as omitting his bloody wounds. His bloody wounds are the proof of the size of his love for us. The serpent had no bloody wounds. Our God did. They represent the price he paid for the salvation of sinners (Romans 5:7-9). The price he paid out of his own pocket was exorbitant. He paid the exorbitant price not from his unlimited divine resources. He paid the exorbitant price from his limited human resources. He paid them all for us (1 Corinthians 7:23). He kept not a penny for himself. He has never paid more for anything else (John 15:13) (John 10:15-18). 'THE SON OF GOD LOVES US EVEN THOUGH WE TORTURED AND KILLED HIM' is a superior articulation of God's love for us because it includes the amplifier. A word to the wise is sufficient.

The dial that controls his love for us is in his hands not ours. Moreover, it is set to the highest degree and is locked in place. Not even the evil that we did to him could budge it. His love for us is mysteriously intransigent, inexplicably persistent and radically stubborn (Isaiah 55:8-9) (Psalm 8:4-8) (Lamentations 3:22-23) (Jeremiah 31:3).

The monster of the Crucifixion tried to reduce Jesus from the level of our loving God to the level of the loveless beasts who scavenge for scraps among the ruins of Eden in cutthroat competition with the other loveless beasts. Jesus, however, refused the demotion. He declined to descend into catastrophe. The prodigious love of God survived the evil that we did to him. God's prodigious love for us emerged from the violent clash with the monster unscathed - undiminished - without the slightest scratch. The evil that we did to Jesus did not extinguish the bonfire of love that burns for us in his most Sacred Heart or reduce its intensity by even the slightest degree.

What type of literature is the Word of God (John 1:1). The Word of God (John 1:1) was a Love Note that our God sent to us. Imagine that, a Love Note from God to us. Wow! The game-changing event in God's love affair with the children of Adam and Eve occurred when Jesus verified God's love for us as he passed through the furnace of affliction (Isaiah 48:10) on the battlefield of the Crucifixion. If the Love Note were counterfeit, his love for us would have faded as we tortured him and would have died when we killed him. But it did not. Jesus's love for us survived the evil that we did to him (Jeremiah 31:31-34) (Luke 23:34).