Why does God love us?
The simplest, most humble, and theologically rich answer to this question is this... "He loved us because he loved us." To really comprehend the motivations behind God's love for his people, one would have to plunge the depths of eternal trinitarian love. We know how he loved us and we know what the love looks like but the motivations of is the kind of thing we will spend eternity searching out and growing in the knowledge of. Consider the words of Gerald Bray from his Amazing book "God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology",
"God is He who, without having to do so, seeks and creates fellowship between himself and us. He does not have to do it, because in himself without us, and therefore without this, he has that which he seeks and creates between himself and us. He does not have to do it, because in himself without us, and therefore without this, he has that which he seeks and creates between himself and us. It implies so to speak an overflow of his essence that he turns to us… But it is an over flow which is not demanded or presupposed by any necessity, constraint, or obligation, least of all from outside, from our side, or by any law by which God Himself is bound and obliged. On the Contrary, in itself and as such it is again rooted in Himself alone (273)."
This reality should lead the Christian to have the deepest kind of rest. No sin is too dark to quench the flame of God's eternal Trinitarian love he has for us. The best book dealing with the Trinitarian Love in a profound but simple way is the book "Delighting in The Trinity" This book is small but amazing. It is the first book I would recommend to any Christian or person exploring the Christian Faith. Get It!
Below is an excerpt of an article I wrote on the Love of God. I hope you find it helpful. It's only an excerpt, eventually I may post the rest of it :^)
https://medium.com/@TTheologian/the-love-of-god-c1414007a9c6
"God is He who, without having to do so, seeks and creates fellowship between himself and us. He does not have to do it, because in himself without us, and therefore without this, he has that which he seeks and creates between himself and us. He does not have to do it, because in himself without us, and therefore without this, he has that which he seeks and creates between himself and us. It implies so to speak an overflow of his essence that he turns to us… But it is an over flow which is not demanded or presupposed by any necessity, constraint, or obligation, least of all from outside, from our side, or by any law by which God Himself is bound and obliged. On the Contrary, in itself and as such it is again rooted in Himself alone (273)."
This reality should lead the Christian to have the deepest kind of rest. No sin is too dark to quench the flame of God's eternal Trinitarian love he has for us. The best book dealing with the Trinitarian Love in a profound but simple way is the book "Delighting in The Trinity" This book is small but amazing. It is the first book I would recommend to any Christian or person exploring the Christian Faith. Get It!
Below is an excerpt of an article I wrote on the Love of God. I hope you find it helpful. It's only an excerpt, eventually I may post the rest of it :^)
https://medium.com/@TTheologian/the-love-of-god-c1414007a9c6