by Angeline Oppenheimer

Created on: October 29, 2010   Last Updated: November 08, 2010

From the beginning of time, God’s love is clearly seen—from creating the world, so we can know and love Him to His provisions in the things He made—they all bear the stamp of God’s love. When God made the world, it was a showcase of His love on display—fruits and vegetables for our nourishment, the beauty of a sunset or the freshness of sunrise, the songs of birds to cheer, and  the Sabbath decreed to rest our bodies. The world offers His love, if we would only stop and consider.

Even when mankind failed, with Adam and Eve’s falling into sin, God’s love continues.  He continues to speak His love through direct communication from the earliest of times. Abraham communed with God about stars and descendants. Moses heard God in the burning bush. David bargained with God. Jonah was corned into obedience. God showed an intimate interest in the lives of His people.  In our days and age, God continues to speak His love in His given Word, the Bible. In it, you will find many reassurances of His unfailing love, many proclamations of His steadfast love and many promises of love to come in eternity.

As if that wasn’t enough, men moved of God, touched by His love wrote books to further show God’s love. Whether they were true stories or exposition of Bible verses, or practical self-help books, His love is espoused on pages and pages of fiction and non-fiction books. Go to any Christian bookroom and you will scores of them—from C.S. Lewis to Philip Yancey.

But mankind needs more than assurances of love. God didn’t hold back. He gave His best to save the worst of mankind. Back in the garden of Eden, when man fell from grace, God promised to win us back : “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, but you will strike his heel” (Genesis 3.15).  This is a prophetic picture of Jesus on the Cross—Satan will crush Jesus’ head but the victory will be brief. It lasted until Jesus rose from the dead. Jesus will bruise Satan’s heel and doom him to defeat forever.

That promise was costly. God didn’t give out of His excesses or send a pseudo-savior to rescue His wayward people. He gave His best, His all and put Him here on earth, where it reeks of sin and damnation. He came as a lowly Carpenter’s son, lived amongst commoners and rubbed shoulders with the most ordinary of men. He saw the trappings

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