Love Is Stronger Than Death

    There is nothing in all the world stronger than true love. Even among unbelievers there can be a love so deep that one person would willingly die for another. Genuine love does not cling to self-preservation; it sacrifices itself for the good of the one it loves. Love gives, suffers, and endures (I Corinthians ch. 13).

Yet every example of human love pales in comparison to the love of God in Christ to His elect.   “Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end” (John 13:1).

 

Christ loved His people “unto the end.” His love did not fail when betrayal came, when suffering increased, or when the cross stood before Him. He loved faithfully, fully, and perfectly.

 

Christ Himself declared: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you” (John 15:13–14).

 

The cross is the greatest demonstration of love ever known. The Son of God willingly laid down His life for sinners. He bore their shame, suffering, and death so that in Him they will have eternal life. His love was not only declared but proven through His sacrifice. The apostle John explains the source of this love: “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (I John 4:10).

 

True love is sacrificial. Divine love is redemptive. And in Jesus Christ we see that love is indeed stronger than death.

 

 

-preacher John Chapman 

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