How do we know that God loves us? First John 4:9-10 answers that question by teaching us that God’s love is public, personal, proactive, and propitiatory. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. First, God’s love is public. It is something he “showed” us. It is not merely a theological idea or spiritual feeling, it is an historical … Continue reading Love, Life, and Death (1 John 4:9-10)