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It is easy enough to talk in a vague way about the love of God. But the love of God implies surely the individual; love as little content indeed if its object is merely a collective noun, an abstract, a concept. But that God loves individual men is very difficult for us to believe in earnest. The real crux comes when the question rises in a man’s own heart, “Does God love me?” Jesus says that he does, but it is very hard to believe, expect in the company of Jesus and under his influence. Jesus throughout asserts and reasserts the value of the individual to God. . . That is the central thing, it seems to me, in his teaching about God—that God cares for the individual to an extent far beyond anything we could think possible. If we can wrestle with that central thought and assimilate it, or, as the old divines said, “appropriate” it, make it our own, the rest of the Gospel is easy. But one can never manage it except with the help, and in the company, of Jesus.
The Jesus Of History - T.R. Glover
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