for you. He does! He wants to save you and
“When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly” (Romans 5:6).
Is that not enough to convince you that He loves you? He would not have died for you if He had not loved you. Is your heart so hard that you can brace yourself up against His love, and spurn and despise it? You can do it; but it will be at your peril.
I can imagine some saying to themselves, “Yes, we believe that God loves us, if we love Him; we believe that God loves the pure and the holy.”
Let me say, my friend, not only does God love the pure and the holy: He also loves the ungodly.
“God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners , Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
God sent him to die for the sins of the whole world. If you belong to the world, then you have part and lot in this love that has been exhibited in the cross of Christ.
There is a passage in Revelation 1:5 which I think a great deal of—“Unto Him that loved us, and washed us.” It might be thought that God would first wash us, and then love us. But no, He first loved us.
About eight years ago the whole country was intensely excited about Charlie Ross, a child of four years old, who was stolen. Two men in a gig asked him and an elder brother if they wanted some candy. They then drove away with the younger boy, leaving the elder one. For many years a search has been made in every State and territory. Men have been over to Great Britain, France, and Germany, and have hunted