We love because He first loved us.
God has this amazing ability to love us while we are hating Him. Any parent of an unruly child can relate.
But think of this: Would you be willing to give up your only son, who had never disobeyed or displeased you, knowing you would have to witness his death, in order to save, say, they neighborhood bully? The worst behaved child you had ever seen?
God did something very similar by giving up Jesus, His only Son in exchange for our eternal souls to be saved.
What's more, once we are saved and in God's family, we still have the dual nature. The old sin nature that will go in the ground when we die and the new "spiritual man", the one that wants to please God and the 2 natures are at war with each other.
Even so, it is God's Holy Spirit that now resides in us that enables us to love Him back. So, "We love because He first loved us" and continues to do so every second of every day. Without Him, we cannot love God with all our heart, mind and strength for 5 minutes, let alone a life time. Amazing love!
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