Kindness and Love

Titus 3:4 KJV

But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

There are many titles that distinguish our Saviour:

• Jesus Christ
• Lord
• Saviour
• Word
• Master
• Emanuel
• Son of God
• Son of Man

As well as many others.

But here is a title I have missed before; "The kindness and love of God."

And that is truly a marvelous name. It is so descriptive both of God and of the Lord. It describes the burden of God and the nature of Christ. God's heart is not full of wrath for mankind, though the wrath of God abides on them waiting to be revealed. His heart's burden is to pour out kindness and love.

Christ's nature is that of kindness and love. To love us is "who He is." The nature of Christ is not anger, jealousy hot temperedness. He did not come to judge but to save. He did not come as to Sodom and Gomorrah, to see if the testimony of the city was as bad as its cry and then judge. He came to a world well known to deserve judgment and jot to find the righteous in it but to make righteous those sinners who would.

• He did not come to condemn the woman taken in adultery.
• He did not come to reject Nicodemus the ruler who came to him by night
• He did not come to revile the woman who had had five husbands and was then living in sin

He came in every case, to be kind and to love them and to purchase for them eternal life.

The kindness and love of God.