Meditating on the love of God this morning. His love is ferocious, yet gentle. Accepting, yet confrontative. Transformative and life giving. He is the One who both rescues the woman caught in the act of adultery from the deadly judgment of religious leaders AND admonishes her to "Go and sin no more." He's the One who invites Himself into a tax collector's home, someone the Jews would have considered a cultural and political traitor....and those simple words of divine invitation cause the man to publicly admit his greed and announce his extravagant plans of restitution. He is the One who loves the widow, the fatherless, the rich, and the pharisee. And to all He offers the cross. To dilute the gospel of its confrontative and transformative nature is to seek to dilute the power of the cross. The gospel has the power to transform because of the Man who hung on the cross. Jesus loves. Jesus saves. Jesus redeems. Jesus heals. Jesus transforms. All of this is revealed in the love of God.
"The son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word." Hebrews 1:3 

Jesus' question to his disciples are the same words He speaks to us today, "Who do you say that I am?" (Matt. 16:15)