Leaving Our Old Life Behind through Baptism
August 15, 2026
God Is Love—His Nature Is to Restore the Lost to Life
God Is Love—His Nature Is to Restore the Lost to Life
God Seeks, Delivers, and Restores the Lost
God’s love can be difficult to comprehend when love is viewed as weakness, lack of discernment, or passive humility. Human love and association are often influenced by wealth, status, intelligence, and achievement. But Jesus demonstrated a radically different love—the love that seeks and restores the lost.
Jesus moved toward the weak, sick, rejected, and helpless. While others kept their distance from lepers, Jesus touched and healed them (Matt. 8:2–3). He ate with tax collectors and sinners, declaring that the sick need a physician (Mk. 2:15–17). Yet His love was never passive. He rebuked the hypocrisy of the Pharisees (Matt. 23), drove out those who turned His Father’s house into a place of business (Jn. 2:13–17), and still healed the servant’s ear when His enemies came to arrest Him (Lk. 22:50–51).
Jesus revealed the Kingdom of God by manifesting its power in human lives. He forgave sin, healed sickness, delivered those oppressed by demons, and demonstrated authority over death (Matt. 4:23–24; Mk. 2:5–12). He restored the widow’s son and called Lazarus out of the grave (Lk. 7:11–15; Jn. 11:43–44).
God’s love restores the life lost through disobedience. Through Adam came sin and death; through Christ came righteousness and life (Rom. 5:17–19). What man could consider a generational curse, Christ took upon Himself and delivered us from the curse (Gal. 3:13). What was helpless under the Law is no longer condemned in Christ; the Spirit of life has made us free (Rom. 8:1–4).
In Christ, we are not merely restored from death to life. God has raised us up and seated us with Christ in the heavenly places (Eph. 2:4–6). We are children of God and joint heirs with Christ (Rom. 8:16–17). This is the position God has given us through the life restored by His love.
Godly love does not merely sympathize with our condition. It seeks the lost, confronts what destroys, delivers from bondage, heals, corrects, and restores. His nature is not to abandon the lost to destruction, but to seek them, restore them to life, and establish them in their position in Christ.
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