“He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all – how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?”
Sometimes it’s easy to take the sacrifice of God’s one and only Son almost for granted. It’s an historical fact, it happened, through it salvation is provided for us, that’s all very nice. But it would be advisable to all of us to stop and reflect more often on the magnitude of that sacrifice.
There is no human experience that can ever come close to how God felt about this event. Our love for our own children pales in comparison to the love God has for His Son. The connectedness between the Father and the Son is far greater than any human relationship. Yet God chose for that to be severed, for His Son to be made into the most repulsive thing He knows – sin – and for what? Because of His love for us. There is nothing greater that God could give to mankind. If there was another way for man to be saved, we can be absolutely sure that God would have taken that option.
Here we can see (even though we don’t understand) the depths of God’s love for us. And Paul follows up here by saying, ‘how will He not also, along with [His Son], graciously give us all things?’ Anything else God could give us, is worth far less to Him than the salvation procured for us. So why do we think, ‘God saved me, but that’s it – He doesn’t love me enough to give me anything else.’ No: the extent of God’s love for you is shown in the cross. His love doesn’t stop there. It continues through eternity. We can be sure of it.
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