Rejoice in the love of the Father! We often have a better sense of the love of the Son, than we do the love of the Father. When we think of the love of God, it is often Jesus who first comes to mind. The Father is looked at as being angry towards us, and the Son loving us and appeasing His Father’s anger. This couldn't be further from the truth. I would never try to diminish your love of the Son in any way! The love of the Son is a wonderful, almost an unbelievable love! I would only try and heighten your delight in the Father’s love in the great act of your redemption.
Redemption was not only accomplished by Christ on the cross, but the Father had a preemptive role in it. Probably the most recognizable verse in the Bible is John 3:16. Note whose plan it was to save, "For God! so loved the world." It was the Love of the Father that first thought up and planned the redemption of lost humanity.
It was as if, in old eternity, the Father approached His eternal Son and said, "There must be a way to rescue the lost and dying race of Adam." Then He turned to His Son and said "I will send You into their fallen world. You will live the life they are now incapable of living, and I will crush you; I will pour out my wrath on you, instead of them, until it it exhausted." The Son was, as it were, a willing participant in the Father's plan of redemption.
The fountainhead of your salvation lies in the Love of the Father. It was God the Father, the offended party, who first plotted out the recovery of your life. It was God the Father who called out His Son to redeem you from the curse of the fall.
We must love the Father as we love the Son. We must return love with love; our drops for His ocean.
Father, were the whole realm of nature mine, it would be an offering far too small. Love so amazing, so divine, demands soul, my life, my all.
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