Love

This is Love, not that we loved God, but God loved us and gave His son (Jesus Christ) as a propitiation (atoning sacrifice) for our sins.

I don't know what you all feel, but when that guy was asking his dad how can it be possible to love when all the other party does is to reject you, even to spit at you; and the cross was presented as an answer.. It was just quite a visual and graphic representation of God's love. And indeed, it is when the people are feeling the same emotions that they (probably) can see much more clearly God's heart. (I believe I wrote about a similar parallel last Nov/Dec...)

It is not about that, he said. But oh, it is, it is. It is all about Him...

And for that matter, how many times have we (even us as Christians) spat at His face today?