the most amazing, most affecting,
most melting sight that mortals ever witnessed. Romans chapter
5, verse 8, God demonstrates His own love for us in this.
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. In the death
of Christ, we behold the most astonishing exhibition of divine
love that has ever been manifested to a lost world. Such love as
is here displayed is without a precedent, without a parallel
in the annals of time or in the records of eternity. To behold
the Son of God, the Maker of worlds, bowing His head on the
cross, and yielding up His immaculate soul amid the agonies of death,
is the most amazing, the most affecting, the most melting sight
that mortals ever witnessed. O my soul, look and wonder. Behold
your Savior bleeding on the cross, bleeding from every pore, that
your sins might be washed away in the flowing stream. See Him
pouring out His soul unto death for your salvation. Is not this
a manifestation of unparalleled love to you? Christ's suffering
and dying for us is a great mystery, a mystery of unfathomable love.
How vehement was the love of Christ that led Him to endure
death in its most terrible form, even the death of the cross.
Such is the love of Christ. All the waters of affliction
and suffering, all the billows of divine wrath that rolled over
our blessed Redeemer, were not sufficient to quench the ardency
of that love which He felt for a dying world of sinners. This
is how we know what love is. Jesus Christ laid down His life
for us. 1 John 3, verse 16. This is love, not that we loved
God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice
for our sins. 1 John 4, verse 10.