Although power can force obedience, only love can summon a response of love, which is the one thing God wants from us and the reason he created us. “I, when I am89 lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself,” Jesus said. In case we miss the point John adds, “He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.” God's nature is self-giving; he bases his appeal on sacrificial love.
