Today’s Devotional: How do we know that Jesus Loves Us?
If you’re anything like me, you find it hard to love someone if they don’t reciprocate your love. That’s not to say you don’t try, but it’s just hard to love someone who has given you no evidence that they’ll love you back.
When it comes to loving Jesus though it’s important to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he first loves us. Luckily, as Spurgeon reminds us in this devotional from Morning and Evening, the authors of the Bible have given us ample reasons to trust in Jesus’ love:
True love to Christ is in every case the Holy Spirits work, and must be wrought in the heart by him. He is the efficient cause of it; but the logical reason why we love Jesus lies in himself. Why do we love Jesus? Because he first loved us. Why do we love Jesus? Because he gave himself for us. We have life through his death; we have peace through his blood. Though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor. Why do we love Jesus? Because of the excellency of his person. We are filled with a sense of his beauty! an admiration of his charms! a consciousness of his infinite perfection! His greatness, goodness, and loveliness, in one resplendent ray, combine to enchant the soul till it is so ravished that it exclaims, Yea, he is altogether lovely. Blessed love thisa love which binds the heart with chains more soft than silk, and yet more firm than adamant!
Read the entire devotional at ccel.org.
What aspect of Jesus’ love for humanity helps you the most when it comes to loving him back?
We know God loved us, still loves us, and will forever love us, because He says so! That is what is so marvelous about His Word. If someone loves us but never says a single word of love to us, it would indeed be difficult to tell if he had a personal and special love towards us. However the Bible is full of God’s declarations of His love for man, and especially for His people! As also in Hosea He says, I will call they who are not a people My people and her who is not beloved beloved! If only we would let Him draw us to Himself! So also comfort one another in these words. =)