There is no horizontal movement with God's love. His love is ALWAYS from the GREATER to the LESSER. More correctly, from the GREATEST to the LEAST.
We tend to love those in our own "class" or in a higher class because there is the hope of receiving something in return for our investment. Let's face it, we love to get love. How does this show? By our disappointment or anger that our love was not reciprocated. Don't love me back and you can forget any further love from this boy!!
But God's love to us is from the Infinite and Holy One to damned sinners. God's love always flows DOWN (except the eternal love between the Father, Son, and Spirit!) and it is always to the infinitely underserving.
There is no possibility of love from us to God until He first loves us. "In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us..." 1John 4:10. That downward flowing, greatest to least, holy to sinner love is what births love in us.
What a Lover!
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