family of God.
Did God love us because we deserved it?
No, He loved us while we were unlovely. He
loved us while we were still sinners! The
Bible says so:
ROMANS 5:
8 But God commendeth his love
toward us, in that, while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Think about this: If God loved us with
such a great love when we were sinners—
unlovely—His enemies—do you think He
loves His children any less? No, a thousand
times no! That's the way we're to love with
divine love. This love that the Bible is
talking about is divine love—the God-kind
of love—the love of God that has been shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
We hear a lot today about "love," but
what people are really talking about is
natural human love, which is selfish. Some
say that a mother's love is like the love of
God. There may be similarities, but it's still