God is love.  His mercy is over all His works.  He manifests His love to all.  But the highest expression of His love is manifest to those who He lovingly draws to Himself by sheer grace.  Therefore to those of us who believe, God’s love is a uniquely precious reality, albeit an unfathomable one.  There is no way we can scale the height of it.  There is no way we can imagine the breadth of it or span the width of it.  Nevertheless, by God’s grace we can know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge (Ephesians 3:18-19).

Why is all this so important?  Ulitimately the love of God is the basis for all our hopes.  It is the source and fulfillment of our faith.  It is the very basis for His grace to us.  As Christians, then, we ought to see that everything we enjoy in life – from our tiniest pleasures to the eternal redemption we have found in Christ – is an expression of the great love wherewith God loved us (Ephesians 2:4).  The blessing of His love comes to us not because we deserve it, but simply and only because of His sovereign grace.  For certainly we do not deserve His blessing, but the very opposite.  Yet He pours out His love without measure, and we are invited to partake of its benefits freely.  In light of the glories of divine love, how can we not be utterly lost in wonder, love, and praise?
- John MacArthur

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