This Is Love

Some choose flowers,

Some a song to sing.

Others, a romantic note,

Or a promise with a ring.

But One chose thorns,

One chose nails,

One chose gashes

From a cat-o-nine-tails.

Dear ignorant heart,

Won't you ever see?

This is how my Savior

Chose to love me.

And this is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. -1 John 4:10

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 

-Romans 5:8