God's Love for His Children by Mrs. D. W. Myers

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 18, 1916

God's Love for His Children

By Mrs. D. W. Myers

MRS. D. W. MYERS

“BEHOLD, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.” I John 3:1. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16.

How unworthy we are of God's love, and yet how much he loves us! “God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Rom. 5:8. “Not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” I John 4:10.

In our fallen condition we cannot comprehend the greatness of his love. We feel so unworthy of such care that at times we doubt its reality. God's ways and thoughts are so much higher than ours that we fail to understand them. How much we ought to love him who spared not his only Son! and how much we ought to love the One who gave his life that we might live! O, blessed Saviour, how much thou hast loved us!

We should walk humbly before God, realizing that it was our sins which caused his death upon the cruel cross. Nothing that we can do will ever repay the debt of love we owe. All we can do is to offer our lives in consecration to his will, which is our reasonable service, that Christ may work through us to the saving of souls.

Knowing that we are Christ's, bought by his blood, how careful, yea, how zealous, we should be of good works, “not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works,” but seeking to “go on unto perfection,” holding “fast the profession of our faith” lest at any time we should become “weary in well-doing,” in all things showing “the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end.” Oh, let us never forget that it was love, the love of God to us, that brought our Saviour from his throne above to die on Calvary's cross! And we love him “because he first loved us.” I John 4:19. Nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. See Rom. 8:38, 39.

Brethren and sisters, God loves us; and if the Lord be for us, who can be against us?

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