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But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.

This can be summed up in three simple words…”He Saved Us.” This is speaking about the love of God toward mankind. We, as humans, love differently than how God loves. Therefore we tend to misinterpret the love of God. We think of love as how we want to receive it. However, God shows His love in many different ways. Oftentimes He shows his love in a way that we wouldn’t necessarily have chosen…but instead, He shows it in a way that we need it. God’s love and kindness was focused on saving us. And it was definitely not something we deserved. Our life of good works and good choices didn’t make God look at us and think, “look at this person; look at the things they’ve done! I should save them.” That’s just not true. It was purely God’s mercy that caused Him to save us. We were lost…we did that on our own. His mercy saw our helplessness and He chose to save us because of that mercy. Because of His love and kindness.