Mar 28 - 18 - Romans 5:8

But God demonstrates

his own love for us in this:

While we were still sinners,

Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8

Bible Rank: 18

What is love?

Is it a feeling? Yes. Often. 

Is it an action? Absolutely. Our actions reveal our true feelings. They cement our feelings. Our actions "prove" what we say is in our heart. 

For example: "Greater love has no one than this than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends" (John 15:13). 

Do you see it? Love may be a feeling, but greater love is an action. The action -- in this case, Jesus' sacrificial death -- reveals God's true heart. His feeling (love) gives everything (action).

And our verse for today describes the heights of this love-action ... because nothing we've done (our love-action, or lack thereof) reveals that we deserve it at all. (Which only magnifies the beauty of God's love for us.)

Therefore, as dessert today -- the cherry on top of the assurance of God's love for you -- read today's verse in context (from the evocative Message paraphrase) ... 

We can understand someone dying

for a person worth dying for ...

and we can understand

how someone good and noble could

inspire us to selfless sacrifice ...

But God put his love

on the line for us by

offering his Son in sacrificial death

while we were of no use whatever to him.

In Christ's Love,

a guy who is of no use to God

... and yet he still chose me

(Thank you, God!)