God demonstrates His love own love toward us, in that while we were sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). This text is truly one of the most eye-catching and heart throbbing in God’s Word. When we were at our worst, God gave us the very best of His love. Reading this verse, we come to understand that true love is not simply the gushy, mushy expression of our emotions. Because God loved us, He acted on our behalf. Paul uses the word “demonstrates.” The Greek word is sunistemi. The word picture is action taken to prove, to exhibit, and put on open display. In the sacrificial death of His Son Jesus Christ, God openly proved, displayed, and established the reality, and universal reach, of His love. God teaches us that true love is an action thing. As we follow in God’s example of openly proving His love, we must find ways to display the proof of our love for one another. John put it this way: My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and truth (1 John 3:18). This is the big question, how are we openly and clearly showing our love. Is our “one another love” real (John 13:34-35), if it’s not being seen, felt, and experienced by others?
Think about it! VHH