I misspoke this weekend while preaching. I said, “The Bible says God loves each of us as much as He loves Jesus.” Immediately my brain said to me, “Hey, there is no such verse.” However, instead of stopping to correct myself I went on because in that instant of time my brain told me that while it is not actually so expressed in Scripture, recently I read it and I believe it. I mentioned it to one of my friends and he instantly told me that I had read it in The Shack, a publication that will become a Christian classic.
I believe it is true because I am a father. When Jesus told us to call God “Our Father” He changed everything in regards to our understanding of the true nature of God. Actually we do not love our children equally because love cannot be measured. However, we do love each of our children uniquely as each child is unique. We don’t love one child more or less than the other. We love each one differently than the other. Each draws from us exactly what they need as we are willing to give all we have to each. We would not die for one and not the other. Each would receive the ultimate from us. As we brought each into the world, we would give all to each to keep each as safe as possible in this world.
By giving us Jesus on the cross God by His actions has demonstrated that each of His children will receive all that is necessary, even at the sacrifice of the very One of which He says, “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; . . .” Hebrews 1
Written by Roger Bothwell on January 5, 2009
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