Our True Love!
"But God demonstrates His own love toward us,
in that while we were still sinners, Christ died
for us."
Romans 5: 8
The sixteenth-century English Bible translator, William Tyndale,
was detained by royal authorities in Belgium and condemned to
die. He was tied to a stake, strangled to death, and his body was
burned. His last words were reported: “Lord! Open the King of
England’s eyes.”
Not a prayer of vengeance, judgment, anger, or regret, but a prayer
of love, that king of England’s eyes would be open to spiritual truth.
The prayer is consistent with Paul’s description of unconditional love
in 1 Corinthians 13:7: Love “hopes all things, endures all things.”
And Jesus’ words in John 15:13: True love will lay down its own
life (self-interests, desires) for the life of another. Jesus Himself,
while dying on a cross, asked God to forgive those who put Him
there (Luke 23:34).
All of these are examples of unconditional love, the kind of love
God demonstrated when He sent His own Son to die for us, for
those who were His enemies (John 3:16; Romans 5:10). Love
for one’s enemies is unconditional love.
The Bible knows nothing of conditional love.
How can you put the needs of others ahead
of your own today?
"True love is always costly."
Billy Graham
