Is love conditional? Do certain things have to happen for us to love another person? For some the answer might be yes, but it is not required. We know that God loves us, but how did He show it? Did He wait for mankind to acknowledge Him, to begin to follow Him before He showed His love for us?
Romans 5:8 tells us how and when God showed His love for us.
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
God did not wait until we were perfect. He did not wait until we confessed our sins. While we were still disobedient, while we were still sinners, God showed His love for us by sending His Son Jesus to die on the cross to be the sacrifice for us. If He waited for us to turn from our sin before He demonstrated His love, then we would never see His love demonstrated this way.
We can be thankful that God demonstrated His love for us this way.
Listen to the verse in song by Jumpstart3:
Discussion Questions
- Who can we demonstrate (show) that we love them?Anyone
- How can we show people that we love them?By serving them. Helping them or doing something for them.
- How did God show His love for us?Having Jesus die for us
- Why did Jesus have to die for us?To be the perfect sacrifice for our sin, for our disobedience to God
End in prayer thanking God for showing His love for us while we were still sinners. Seek to see if they believe that Jesus is God’s Son and that He came to be the sacrifice for us, for them personally.
