great love

But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
Romans 5:8 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rom.5.8.NLT

Which of you would send your son to die for a bunch of Islamic militants in Africa? No takers? We would not do that to our son because we would love him more than a bunch of violent unknowns.

What then prompted God to do that? Is He mental? Crazy? What son would go? Is Jesus also mental? If our neighbour acted like this we would report him for child abuse.

Obviously we cannot fathom this act because we love selfishly. We love our own and defend our own.

I remember watching a movie once about a bunch of Australians in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. The prisoners were worked tirelessly on building a road. One day a spade was missing. The commander was furious and demanded that the person who stole it own up. No one did. He grabbed a man and said that he would kill this man if the perpetrator did not come forward. There was a christian man there who knew that the man who was to be killed had family and offered himself as the victim. The commander knew him to be a Christian and so crucified him. Later it was found that no spade was missing, they had miscounted.

A man offered his life for a friend. It was admiral. However, Jesus offered His life for the commander, the cruel overlord. To understand this we have to be saved from a life of sin and know the love that caused our saviour to rescue us by giving His life.

Think on this! Amen!

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