God, who is love, actively demonstrated His love through Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son and through Him offered salvation to all mankind.
In Christ, we can see his love so intense and sacrificial. Through His death, Christ revealed what pure, unfathomable love could be. But He did more than that. Through the cross, God proved the depths of His love, because “While we were still sinners, Christ died for us”
God reached out, expecting nothing in return, and emptied Himself completely, for the very ones who turned away from Him. God knew how helpless we were, God did not want us to be destroyed. Jesus came so that, though we were guilty and tarnished by sin, we could receive forgiveness and set free for all we have done. Because of Jesus, we can have peace with God. We can now call him our Father. We are adopted as His children and empowered by the Holy Spirit to live fully in His freedom.
Nicodemus spoke to Jesus was in relating to his religious works (self righteousness). Self righteous work could not give ua salvation but only by believing in Jesus.
As our Heavenly Father knew the physical pain that Jesus would suffer. God also knew the mental anguish that Jesus would suffer in the Garden of Gethsemane. God loved us so much that He willingly gave his son for us “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him”. John 3:16-17.
