Love Does, you see

Love does, you see; Love doesn't just think or talk about doing; Love actually does something to help resolve a problem or burden.  So, what exactly did the Lord Jesus Christ do for us sinners?  Well for starters, Christ Jesus didn't just sit up on His throne in Heaven and wish the best for us hopeless wretches; no, God Himself came down here to Earth in human flesh, and made an Atonement for human guilt by His own bloody death upon Calvary's Cross.  The eternal God could do more than to become incarnate, and then bleed and die for sinful mankind.

To lift us up from our fallen condition, Jesus stooped very low.  He made the heavens and the earth, but He laid helpless in Bethlehem's manger as a Jewish baby.  He hung the stars in place, yet He hung on Calvary's Cross bearing my sins and dying in my place.  He took Himself the responsibility and consequences for that sins I had committed against God.  Jesus actually became Sin for me, so I could become righteous in God's sight through faith in His atoning blood.  He gave up all of His rank and dignity for love's dear sake.  The baby Jesus grew up and became a Jewish man; He lived a sinless life; He became the Servant of servants, and made Himself of no reputation.  He went about doing good - preaching, helping, healing, loving.

Herein is Love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the Propitiation for our sins.  Jesus took the lowest place; that is, He was despised and rejected of men.  He gave up ease and comfort, for He had no where to lay His head.  He gave His back to the smiters, so that the chastisement of our peace could fall on Him.  He gave up His clothes and died naked on the Cross, while the soldiers gambled for His garments at the foot of the Cross, all the while He was dying in their place.  He gave His body over to the slaps, the spit, the thorns, the scourge, the nails, and the spear.  Up Calvary’s mountain, one dreadful morn, walked Christ my Savior, weary and worn; facing for sinners death on the Cross, that He might save me from endless loss.

At the last, He gave His life, and cried, "It is finished!" Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus took down His mangled corpse from the Cross, prepared it for burial, and laid it in a borrowed tomb.  He saved others, Himself He could not save.  Three days past, and then came Sunday, and up from the grave He arose with a mighty triumph over His foes.  He arose a Victor from the dark domain, and now He lives forever with His saints to reign.  If you're going to be like Jesus, the very personification of Love itself, you better get to doing.  We love Him, because He first loved us.  The love of Christ constraineth us.  Prove the sincerity of your love to Jesus. Love does, you see.