We Believe In Jesus: The RedeemerSample

God’s Motive to Redeem Humanity: John 3:16

The Son’s motive for redeeming sinners was complex, and can be described in a variety of ways. He was motivated by his desire to bring glory to the Trinity. He was motivated by a desire for the creation to fulfill its purpose. He was motivated by his desire for justice and mercy. But one of the most well-known words Scripture uses to describe the Son’s motive in redemption is “love” — love for God, love for creation and love for human beings. And this love wasn’t limited to the Son; all three persons of the Trinity shared it. 

God is motivated to redeem us because God is love. Scriptures are clear about that — 1 John, “God is love.” John 3:16 used to be one of the most well-known Bible verses in the world, “For God so loved the world.” So, what motivates him to save and redeem? It’s his love. His desire and his design for his creation, especially his human creation, to know him, to live in relationship with him, to be fulfilled in him and thereby providing a platform in which people could know him, and he can be glorified as the loving altogether good God that he is. So the love of God for us is what motivates him to redeem us. – Dr. Steve Blakemore