Meditation of the day: God revealed his love through the Son

In truth, no man has ever seen God or made him known, but he has revealed himself. And he revealed himself in faith, to which only he is allowed to see God. In fact, God, Lord and Creator of the universe, the one who gave origin to everything and arranged according to an order, not only loves men, but is even long-suffering. And he was always like this, he still is and will be: loving, good, tolerant, faithful; he alone is really good. And having conceived a great and ineffable plan in his heart, he communicates it to his Son alone.
For all the time, therefore, in which he kept his wise plan in mystery, he seemed to neglect us and not to think about us; but when by means of his beloved Son he revealed and made known what had been prepared from the beginning, he offered us all together: to enjoy his benefits and to contemplate and understand them. Who among us would have expected all these favors?
After having arranged everything within himself together with the Son, he allowed us until the aforementioned time to remain at the mercy of disordered instincts and to be dragged out of the right path by pleasures and greed, following our will. Certainly he did not take pleasure in our sins, but he endured them; nor could he approve of that time of iniquity, but he prepared the present era of justice, so that, recognizing us at that time clearly unworthy of life because of our works, we would become worthy of it by virtue of his mercy, and because, after having shown the our inability to enter our kingdom with our own strength, we became capable of it because of its power.
When then our injustice reached its peak and it was now clear that punishment and death were above her, as she did, and the time set by God had arrived to reveal her love and power (or immense goodness and love of God!), He did not hate us, nor reject us, nor take revenge. Indeed, he endured us patiently. In his mercy he took our sins upon himself. He spontaneously gave his Son as the price of our ransom: the saint, for the wicked, the innocent for the wicked, the righteous for the wicked, the incorruptible for the corruptible, the immortal for mortals. What could have blamed our faults, if not his justice? How could we astray and wicked find justice if not in the only Son of God?
Or sweet exchange, or ineffable creation, or unpredictable wealth of benefits: the injustice of many was forgiven for one just and the justice of one alone took away the impiety of many!

From the «Letter to Diognèto»