What Manner of Love Is This

Ephesians 2:4-9 "But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast."
What manner of love is this that the Son of God would live and die for lost sinners, unworthy of His great love? What manner of love would cause a king to allow himself to be publicly persecuted, beaten and crucified, so an unworthy man could go free? What manner of love goes beyond measure, goes beyond human conception, and goes beyond the world's standards of love to save lost souls from hell? What manner of love would love the vilest criminal or worst sinner; cleanse his soul and forgive his sins, casting all his sins into the sea of forgetfulness, never to be brought to mind again? What manner of Love is this?
It's the incarnate love of God manifested in Christ Jesus! It's Love beyond measure! It's Love that reaches to the highest mountain and flows to the lowest sea. It's Love that reaches to the deepest pits of hell to rescue a wayward child. It's the Love of God for His children that reaches farther than our mind's eye can ever comprehend. And it's the Love that brings immeasurable peace in the midst of life's storms. It's Love that brings such awesome assurance that nothing can ever separate us from our Father's love as noted in Romans 8:38-39, "For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers; nor things present, nor things to come; nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
This is the undeniable Love that causes the very depths of your soul to sing, "Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful, wonderful, wonderful; Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful, wonderful it is to me!" So taste and see that God is good; that His Love and Mercies endure to all generations!