I'm a big believer that the icing is the best part of a cake -- it's basically pure sugar, so it makes sense that it would be. Kids understand this -- when picking a piece of cake, they always try and get a corner or some other piece with heaps of icing on it. Some cakes can be disappointing when you work through the icing to the actual cake.
When it comes to the Gospel, it's all rooted in love. It's like icing, all the way through, with nothing underneath that might disappoint. God doesn't have any ulterior motives. We sometimes try and come up with complicated other reasons God might act the way God does, but it's all about love. God desperately loves the world and people God created, and so God did the one thing that it would take to save the world, even at a great cost. If we define the worth of something by the price someone is willing to pay, then we see that creation has ultimate worth to God, because God was willing to give up God's own Son, Jesus Christ.
Such is the love that God has for you. Believe it.
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