The Love of God.

How is it that God loves us so much?

In Romans 1, we are confronted with the awesome, unavoidable, incomprehensible love of God. We see the love of God expressed in the humanity and the divinity of Christ, and we experience His grace as He pours out His Spirit into our very selves: yes, the Spirit of the LORD, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD (see Isaiah 11:2).

As Pastor Benji said on Sunday, this reflection upon the humanity and divinity of Christ is not merely an intellectual exercise. In fact, we cannot fully comprehend this way in which God has demonstrated His love for us. We accept the mystery of this amazing love, and we believe that Jesus is fully God and fully man.

Back in my Salvation Army days, we would say it this way: "We believe that in the person of Jesus Christ the Divine and human natures are united, so that He is truly and properly God and truly and properly man."

So, in the face of this cool weather, we consider the thought that warms our hearts: Yes, God loves us!