MORNING MANNA 5-12-25
“We love him because he first loved us”–1 John 4:19
It is wonderful to know and love the Lord, but we need to understand why it is so. It’s because “he first loved us.” One writer said,”Some people imagine that Jesus loved us because He knew we would love Him and come to faith in Him. But He loved us before that, and even before the worlds were created, when our only existence was in the mind and heart of God, Jesus loved us. He loved us when we were still sinners.”
Our love for Christ comes from His love for us. In other words, our love for Him is our response to the reality of His love for us. It is only after the revelation of His love for us that we respond in love for Him, and that is a work of the Holy Spirit. We don’t draw God to us, He draws us, by His love, to Himself. We have no grounds upon which we can ever boast of our love for Christ. All the glory goes to Him who “commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”(Romans 5:8).He does so because “God is love”, not because we are lovable. His love for us is due to who He is, not because of who we are or what we’ve done.- HDS
“Isn’t the love of Jesus something wonderful?”
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
Humble, TX
