PERFECT LOVE

By David Brandt Berg

Our salvation is a gift from God (Ephesians 2:8), but it cost Jesus dearly. He went through an experience that, thank God, we will never have to go through—not just crucifixion, not just the agony of the body, but the agony of mind and spirit, feeling that God had actually deserted Him. “My God, My God,” He cried out from the cross, “why have You forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46). Had God forsaken Him? Yes, momentarily, that He might die the death of a sinner, without God. That was the highest price anybody could have paid for our salvation, and only Jesus could have done it.

Jesus loved us enough to do that for us, so that we could be forgiven and be saved. Such love! •