In watching the Today show segment this morning about the woman from Kentucky who protected her kids by laying on them as shelter while their house was being torn apart from a tornado, one of the hosts began the segment by saying, "There is no greater love than the love a mother has for her children." The comment instantly struck me and 1 John 3:16 came to mind:
"By this we know love, that He laid down His life for us."
I do not want to diminish the incredible story of this mother's selfless protection of her children and the sacrifice she made, but I think it is such a beautiful, though incomplete, picture of what Christ has done for us. The only way we can truly know what love is comes from Christ shielding Himself over us and being beaten and torn instead of us. Although this incredible woman covered her children with her body to protect them from the violent crumbling around them, Christ did that to save our souls from eternal death. A song inspired by the same verse puts it so wonderfully and fully:
By this we know love: that He laid down His life,
God's very own Son came from Heaven to die
Suspended He hung as He shed His own blood
What grace in His pardon- by THIS we know love
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