The Love of God

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Do you think that God's salvation, as a gift, is too easy? True, all you need to do is receive that gift, and with it you are assured of eternal life.
Yes, it is easy for you. But think! What did that wonderful work on Calvary cost God, the Father of the Lord Jesus, who wrought that work?
God gave His own Son as a ransom for us poor, lost sinners. God gave the holy One for sinners, the blameless One for the wicked, the righteous One for the unrighteous, the incorruptible One for the corruptible.
What else could have cleansed us from sin but His precious blood? What was capable of saving us from our lost condition but the shed blood of God's Lamb? Only by the sacrifice of the only Son of God could we who are wicked and ungodly be made perfect before God.
Oh, what love and mercy God has shown through Christ to worthless mortals! Through the agony of the Lord Jesus Christ the beloved Son of God who has gone through death, burial and resurrection, the Father can save sinners and bring them into eternal blessing. What a price! And what a Gift!
"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.