“If God’s Son is so great, so precious, so dear to His eyes, then what are we
to Him — we for whom He has given this so great, so precious, so dear Son?
If a captain ransoms his prisoners who are held by the
enemy at the price of gold, isn’t it because the freedom of his companions is
just as dear to him and even more dear than the gold with which he redeems
them?
If Abraham offers his son Isaac as a burnt offering,
isn’t it because God’s holy will is just as dear to him and even more dear than
the life of this son whom he loves so much?
If God “gives men in return for Israel, peoples in
exchange for his life” (see Isaiah 43:4), isn’t it because Israel is just as
dear to Him and even more dear than the men, the peoples whom He gives for
their deliverance?
And if, given the alternative of either striking us
while sparing His only Son or delivering up His only Son in order to spare us,
the Father delivers up His Son and spares us, what can we say about the love
with which he loves us?
What can we say that would not appear to be the epitome of waywardness and
presumption if we did not have the truth, the evidence, the very revelation of
God on our side? Whatever the case, He delivers Him up, He gives Him, He sends
Him into the world — into this world that is lost through sin but, for that
very reason, needs Him in order to be saved.”
— Adolphe Monod, an undivided love: loving and living for Christ
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