Size of payment

LOVE IS THE GOLD STANDARD OF CHRISTIANITY  

LOVE IS THE GOLD STANDARD OF CHRISTIANITY  

Love is the gold standard of Christianity against which everything else is measured. Love is not a feeling. Both its scope and its size can be measured.

With regard to the size of his love, Jesus laid down his life for us (John 10:15-18) (John 15:13). He made the payment not from his unlimited divine resources. He made the payment from his limited human resources. He paid them all for us (1 Corinthians 7:23-24). He kept not a penny for himself. He has never paid more for anything else (John 15:13). The exorbitant size of the payment is irrefutable evidence of the exorbitant size of his love for us.