The most amazing, most affecting, most melting sight that mortals ever witnessed!
(David Harsha, "Thoughts on the Love of Christ")
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Romans 5:8, "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 3:16
"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 4:10