God So Loved The World – Andrew Murray

The love of God has proved itself in the gift of the son, of himself. In sending Christ to become man God proved that he longed to have man one with himself, that all his life and love as God was for man, that man might be made partaker of the divine nature. And the wonderful, the blessed whosoever of our text says that that love is for every creature. The lowest, the most degraded and rejected and utterly hopeless  the love is for him, the love longs for him and is able to triumph over him. Jesus Christ came into the world for the one sole purpose of revealing this love. He spoke of it, he lived for it, he died to bring it to us. It was his one aim, his one glory, the passion and strength of his life. It was his very life; it possessed him, and he knew no other joy. And as he prayed that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, he meant his disciples just as much as himself, to have it in them, to live for it, to find their glory and blessedness in carrying it and making it known.

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, pg. 63)

Andrew Murray