So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:17-19)

The fall of Adam and the destruction of mankind made ample room and verge enough for love almighty. Amid the ruins of humanity there was space for showing how much Jehovah loved the sons of men.

For the compass of his love was no less than the world, the object of it no less than the finding of a ransom for them. The far-reaching purpose of that love was both negative and positive; that, believing in Jesus, men might not perish, but have eternal life.

The desperate disease of man gave occasion for the introduction of that divine remedy which God alone could have devised and supplied. By the plan of mercy and the great gift that was needed for carrying it out, the Lord found means to display his boundless love for guilty men.

Had there been no fall and no perishing, God might have shown his love to us as he does to the pure and perfect spirits that surrounded his throne; but he never could have commended his love to us to such an extent as he does now does.

In the gift of his only begotten Son, God commended his love to us, in that while we were yet sinners, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.[1]

Charles Spurgeon

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End notes:

[1] Charles Spurgeon, At the Master’s Feet [Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005], April 11.

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