God's Love Unmeasured by Ellen G. White

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 27, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 33.

God's Love Unmeasured

By Ellen G. White

By Mrs. E. G. White

THE question has been asked, "Would not a lesser gift from God have been adequate for the redemption of lost man?" "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only-begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." The question is unanswerable, and it is not profitable for us to spend our time in making conjectures. All our thoughts and imaginations will not alter in the least any part of the plan of redemption devised from all eternity. God loved the world to such an extent that He gave full and complete evidence of the fact. He did not leave any opportunity for the tempter to say that He did not love us, for He gave a gift whose value could not be estimated. Had He done less, Satan and his agencies would have sought to inspire jealousy against God by intimating that He could have done more than He did. God so loved the world that He determined to bestow a gift beyond all computation, and make manifest how immeasurable was His love. The gift of God would be a wonder to all worlds, to all created intelligences, ever enlarging their ideas of what God's love was in its infinity and greatness. Contemplation of this love would uproot from the heart all selfishness, and so transform the soul that men would cherish generosity, practise self-denial, and imitate the example of God. God so loved the world that He gave heaven's best gift, in order that the most guilty transgressor should not be deterred from coming to Christ, however great his sin, and be enabled to ask for pardon at a throne of mercy.