We still wait for the revealing (apokalypsis) of our Lord Jesus Christ, Saint Paul tells the Corinthians (1 Cor. 1:7).
What are we waiting for?
Jesus gave us a glimpse of what we are waiting for as he proceeded through the furnace of affliction (Isaiah 48:10) on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. He did not give us a declaration about God. He gave us a demonstration of God.
We impaled Jesus on a cross as a fisherman insouciantly impales a live worm on a sharp hook where he hung until death. He forgave us (Luke 23:34).
The greater was our brutality to him, the more astonishing is his forgiveness of us.
The dial that controls his love for us is in his hands not ours. Moreover, it is set to the highest degree and it is locked in place. Not even the evil that we did to him could budge it.
If his love for us were counterfeit, his love for us would have faded as we tortured him and would have died when we killed him. But it did not. His love for us survived the evil that we did to him.
We learn from the revelation that Jesus released into the Valley of Tears as he proceeded through the furnace of affliction (Isaiah 48:10) on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection that GOD’S LOVE FOR US IS UNLIMITED - UNLIMITED IN SIZE, UNLIMITED IN SCOPE AND UNLIMITED IN DURATION. Limits to God’s love for us simply do not exist. They are illusions. His love for us is perfect. Our discovery of love without limits gobsmacks us. It knocks us off our horse (Acts 9:4). The gravity from the fact that our Creator's love for us is without limits is the most powerful force on earth. It gives Jesus his charisma. It is the magic of Christianity. Its gravity pulls us into orbit around him.
We wait for the God who caressed his brutal butchers with the unilateral, gratuitous and unconditional gift of gentle forgiveness (Luke 23:34).
Beware anyone who underestimates God's love for us (1 Corinthians 13). Beware anyone who tries to water it down. Beware anyone who tries to dilute it with caveats and conditions.