Jesus Making Passage for Us to Love God

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In Jesus, God glorifies Himself. It is a strange thought that the supreme glory of God lies in the incarnation and the cross. There is no glory like that of being loved. Had God remained aloof and majestic, serene and unmoved, untouched by any sorrow and unhurt by any pain, men and women might have feared Him and they might have admired Him; but they would never have loved Him. The law of sacrifice is not only a law of earth; it is a law of heaven and earth. It is in the incarnation and the cross that God’s supreme glory is revealed.

- William Barclay, Commentary on John 13:31-32

  • Greg

    For me the moment of ultimate triumphant reunion between God and man is summed up in the utterance of “Eloi, Eloi lama sabachthani!” Only a God who has suffered our deepest pain and alienation is small enough to be our everything. One of my prayers without ceasing is gratitude that God with full knowledge chose to actually experience what we experience in our darkest hours. Holy, holy, holy only begins to declare His blessed name. Gotta love Barclay! peace