SACRIFICIAL LOVE by AUGUSTINE LUYINGWA.
Love is the ultimate expression of God’s relationship to humanity which is encapsulated in what we term sacrificial Love. We can never explain or understand God outside His Love, 1st John 4:8this does not mean God's Love but His expression to us which He expects us to relate with one another.
Sacrifice simply means to give up or loose something for the sake of another person. What God Has ever done is to sacrifice for humanity to the extent of corrupting heaven for us. His sacrifice has gone beyond human understanding to the of substituting His nature for Human beings. 2nd Cor 5:21, He is made sin for us to be His righteousness. This is the highest form God showed and sacrificed His Love for us, the death, resurrection, and the New Life in His Son Jesus.
Something intriguing is that God always wants us to know that He loves us and in this knowledge we shall approach Him in confidence knowing that nothing can hinder us from accessing that which we need. Heb 4:16. It is in the fullness of this Love which we have received that we relate with each other and we are even prompted to share the life we have received and evangelize to others so that they can walk in the freedom and the peace which we have in Christ Jesus.
Though we have been born of God, we cannot receive anything apart from understanding the depth of His Love, Ephesians 3:17-19. It is in the Love men understand how much God Has poured to them from the abundance and when this is made a reality, we are able to be filled and walk in the fullness of what has already been deposited in our spirits.
It just hit me, do you know it is a sin to do anything without faith, Romans 13:24. It is so big a sin to know the immense Love of God and refuse to walk in the acknowledgment of the great things we have received from God. Do you know it is only a man who has faith who can accept that God Loves them without comparing the Love of God to their weaknesses and therefore approaching God in understanding? Ephesians 1:4, God Loved us before the foundations of the earth therefore His Love is not a dependent variable on how we go around it.
It is very clear that effectuality can only be achieved through acknowledging good things in God through Christ Jesus. Philemon 1:6, the good Love of God can be made a reality by continuously recognizing it.
What then has the sacrificial Love of God brought in the life of a believer?
The Love God has given the believer confidence in what we have received in Christ Jesus even as we wait upon His appearance in the Hope of Glory, 1st John 4:17-18. This has given us ground to walk in understanding our fate as believers we do it not in fear but in power and confidence 2nd Tim 1:7.
Through this Love we have been made sons in fullness, 1st Cor 6:17 By Him uniting us to Him he has made us as He is unto His Nature because He is a father of spirits Heb 12:9b, therefore as He is so we are in the spirit for we share in His nature for His Glory according to His own will 1st Cor 2:9-16.
In this Love, we have received eternal life embodied in the eternal salvation we have gotten from Him. John 3:16, by the virtue that we believe in His Love He has given access into eternity through us being sons. John 1:12.
Last but not least He has made us worshippers in Him through the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. Philippians 3:3, We are circumcision that worships God in the spirit…rejoice in Christ Jesus. This shows directly that the bit of us being worshippers wholly depends on the sacrifice made through Christ because of His Love. Through the sacrifice of Christ, worshippers have been abl3 to have a mind of no sin consciousness and through purification, as the worshipper is perfected in God with no reminder of sin and with exemption from dead works, Hebrew 10:1-4. Hooray, hallelujah, we are the worshippers God seeks and in Him, He has made us for His own praise.
What then shall we say of the great Love of God, it so great beyond the understanding of the Human mind Ephesians 3:18. There is nothing that can separate us from the Love of God which He has put on the line for the sake of them that He has called according to His knowledge, Roman 8:35. We have been fully encapsulated in His Love and therefore I repeat again that there is nothing absolutely nothing that can separate us from the Love of God. GLORY TO GOD.
